Eh...pretty cool!

Really cool-looking game about fixing broking cars in your garage. But... will you like it? Would I recommend it for you to buy? That's depends of what are you expecting from this game, in the first hand.

Let me tell you how it works, right from the start: you'll find yourself locked inside the garage, with some broken car and notation of what you should do with it. You can disassemble the most of the car's engine, suspension and exhausts. You can fix some of those disassembled parts on the workbench, or buy new ones in the PC installed in your garage. Reassemble the car with new or fixed details, and they'll send you next one. After some time you'll get enough "free" money to "buy upgrades", namely, the discounts for the spare parts market, ability to squeeze the next client for more money, ability to notice some of the wrecks with your blind eye, without any expertise, and, finally, ability to turn screws faster... Which is really suitable, especially when exhausts needs fixing.
After 2-3 dozen of cars, they let you in the new, bigger garage, with more tools to examine the wrecks. And in the third garage, which you'll get in about half of the game, you'll face "the master tool" - thing for making magical "chiptuning" (which looks as some kind of puzzle - or the way to make quick buck, depends from perspective).

That's it. Quite an accurate attempt to draw the line of work for cars mechanic, with its bright and dark sides, choices and so on.
Downsides? There is one noticable, but boy, it's Big! You see, all is quite simplified: two different engines (V4/V6) and front-wheel drive/four-wheel drive - which gives us four, only four possible variants of what we should assemble and disassemble over and over. After you'll fix 2-3 cars in the main career and 1-2 cars in each of two dlc's (4wd and tuning one) - you've seen it all.
So, if you were planning to use this software to safely find out how to fix your own VW/Ford/Toyota/whatever - forget it. If you were looking for game about making cars out of scrap or just wanted something powerful enough to keep you awake all night long - nope, not this case.

So, why I like Car Mechanic Sim and think it's good for any games collectioner? First, it's really looking good now - being made on quite limited resources. Yeah, an example of good code work. Second, even while there are not enough depth and variety, it still can teach something - I'll definetely provide this piece to my son - before showing him wiring schemes and options for gear boxes and other more complicated stuff. Third, it's good 3d puzzle game - find out the easiest and cheapest way to get wheels spinning - that's steeper in my book, than crushing numberless skulls... Even if not that fun. And note various languages at game's settings! Learn how to call your wheel in Spanish, German, Russian, et cetera! Yeah, learn the cars topic on your favourite foreign language! (Too bad they don't have Chinese and Japanese, though.) Finally, the price. It's good now, even without bundles!

So, Car Mechanic Sim 2014 deserves 6.5/10 points and good place in my game's library. Will it fit for you? I don't know. But you may try, it won't bite.

PS: the music there gets old fast, I turned it off after the 1st hour of playing... a small thing, but I still wish for more options there

its alright for a few hours. Starts to get a bit tedious after a while and the unskippable, pointless, time-consuming tasks get annoying. You might learn some basics about car mechanics if you didnt know anything before hand.
The 1/4mile add-on is a bit more involved, but re-trying the drag race involves going back to the garage, then going back out to the track. why??

I'm sure the later editions of this game improve some aspects of it, so go for them.

Its a good game, very good concept. I like it and I would recomend it to anyone!

KJ

If you like puzzles you can't go wrong with this game.

Dropped out of college to become a full time car mechanic. Then realized there is no fov option so went back to college.

Its not a bad game game but I cannot play for long periods of time due to motion sickness.

I wanted to like this game, being a fan of simluators in general. And having worked on more than my share of cars in my day. But it just falls short. The tutorial is woefully inadequate, especially if the player has no prior knowledge of car anatomy so to speak. Silly things too, like who changes a starter from the engine compartment? Or since when is an oil filter on top of the engine block? But I could forgive those things, if there was some challenge to the game, besides playing hide and seek with the parts, but diagnosing problems is limited to examining items, the test drives offer no actual benefit, yes, I wanted common mechanical issue sounds, thunking of a bad shock over bumps, clicking of a bad CV during turns etc.

Overall I'm giving this game a 3/10.

not bad, I expected a Gearhead Garage, it's not great, but it's not bad 7/10

10/10 best of the best