{"id":2076298,"date":"2026-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2076298"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:00:00","slug":"weirdly-soothing-play-car-service-together-if-youve-got-nothing-better-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2076298","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weirdly soothing&#8217;: play &#8216;Car Service Together&#8217; if you&#8217;ve got nothing better to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>Another addition to the burgeoning video game genre of \u2018you do someone\u2019s job, only you don\u2019t get paid\u2019, <em>Car Service Together<\/em>\u2019s unique selling point is that you can rope up to three friends into the unpaid labour as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is broadly similar to the other car servicing games, only this time you can bicker over who gets the easy job of refilling the coolant and who has to undo every single rusted bolt on the gearbox bell housing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>This is by no means a high quality game, but there\u2019s something weirdly soothing about hanging around with your mates in a virtual workshop methodically repairing cars.<\/p>\n<p>Progress can feel artificially hampered when you require a certain professional reputation to buy a 20 amp fuse, but broadly things bimble along at a pleasingly sedate pace until one of you reaches your boredom tolerance threshold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>No, we can\u2019t believe we\u2019re recommending this either.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a317, PC<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another addition to the burgeoning video game genre of \u2018you do someone\u2019s job, only you don\u2019t get paid\u2019, Car Service Together\u2019s unique selling point is that you can rope up to three friends into the unpaid labour as well.\u00a0 This is broadly similar to the other car servicing games, only this time you can bicker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2076298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2076298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}