Lemon Lot

Six cars on a gravel forecourt in Calderwick. Big Ron has gone to Spain and left you the keys, the padlock, the kettle and a drawer of brown letters nobody ever opened.

Lemon Lot is a used car dealer sim about the gap between what a car is and what the windscreen card says it is. Tuesday you buy at auction. Saturday you sell to whoever walks onto the gravel. In between, you decide what the buyer gets told.

Every car has something wrong with it. Thirty-six faults, from a kerbed wheel to a shell that used to be two cars. For each one you get three buttons: fix it, hide it, or say it out loud. Fixing costs money today. Saying it costs price today. Hiding costs nothing today, and that is the entire trap.

The windscreen card is your mouth. Two claims fit on a card. One careful owner. Genuine low mileage. Every one of them lifts what a buyer will pay, and every one of them is a thing somebody can check while stood in front of you.

Buyers are people, not wallets. Thirty-six of them, with names and reasons for being there on a Saturday. A lad who passed his test eight days ago. A man who will buy whichever car has the best cupholders. And the one in the flat cap with a torch, a magnet and a tread gauge, already underneath your best motor.

The post arrives. Sell a lemon and it does not end there. A voicemail at twenty to eight. A one-star review that quotes your own card back at you. A small claims form. Then Calderwick Trading Standards, who are polite, thorough, and having a lovely time.

Declare everything and you will be the most honest broke man in Calderwick. Hide everything and you are shut inside a year. The money is in between, and the line keeps moving.

What's in it

• A six-year career, one week at a time, with no timers and no energy bar
• Auctions at three venues, 36 faults, 36 buyers with their own tells
• Windscreen claims, haggling, comebacks, reviews, small claims and Trading Standards
• Tools and staff that let you see more, and a lot that grows from gravel to franchise
• Saves on every decision. Put it down mid-auction and pick it up on Thursday
• English and Korean
• Plays offline. No account, no login.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• Mouse controls. Esc goes back.
• A portrait window (540x960) that fits a 1080p screen and can be resized.

Fraud, played for laughs. Nobody in it is real: no real dealer, no real town, no real make of car. Nothing in here explains how to actually fake anything.

Credits

Faces: Ninja Adventure by Pixel-boy (CC0). Fonts: Chewy (Apache 2.0), Anton, IBM Plex Sans, Pretendard (SIL OFL). Made with Godot.