I played Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 and gave on up on it for the same issues that I've given up on 2021 for. I was hoping the gameplay would be changed for 2021, but unfortunately its not.

I've been an ASE certified Master Mechanic for 3 years and have been a professional mechanic for 8 years now.
This game is EXTREMELY confusing because of my background, which is weird because you would think the opposite... The difficulty and confusion comes from this game not actually being a real simulator. They take a procedure and cut a % of the steps out of the real world procedure. For example, you don't even pull the drain plug out of the oil pan to change the oil. It took me forever to figure out why I couldn't drain the oil, because I could clearly see the drain plug, but couldn't figure out how to remove it. Turns out, you just stick your catch can under it and select "drain". Even how the parts are mounted to the vehicle, it completely misses nuts/bolts. An example of this was there wasn't 2 or 3 nuts holding the top of the strut to the body of the vehicle, just the 2 bolts connection the strut to the knuckle. Basically every single procedure that i did was missing steps and it make it really difficult for me to follow what the next step was, since all of these things are like second nature to me at this point.

I wouldn't recommend for somebody who actually works on cars because of this. I LOVE the idea of this game and have given it 2 separate chances, years apart from each other, and had the same issues both times.

I would however recommend for somebody who doesn't know about cars, because you can see how operations are done on a VERY BASIC level. Some skills learned from this game can definitely be applied to real life.

I can't recommend this due to false advertisement. This is not a car mechanic simulator. It's a brain dead simulator.

Started off ok, but after a while got repetitive and boring. All these simulation games are missing the same thing. Engagement. If this was supposed to teach me something embrace that and teach me don't just give me a list of things to do and leave it at that. I've disassemble so many engines and I still don't even know what a spark plug even does.

good game