Games Like Dream Car Builder

Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.3%, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Racing 12.6%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers unparalleled depth in engine and chassis design, perfect for those who love the engineering side of car building.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.9%, Destruction 17.6%, Driving 16.1%, Racing 13%, Sandbox 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features the most advanced soft-body physics engine available, making it the gold standard for vehicle destruction and realistic handling.

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29%, Racing 16.1%, Building 16%, Destruction 14%, Driving 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on physics-based vehicle construction and racing, mirroring the core loop of designing and testing custom machines.

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Destruction 22.7%, Sandbox 19.7%, Building 19.3%, Driving 13.3%, Racing 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a creative sandbox environment where you can build and drive vehicles with a focus on destruction and physics-based interactions.

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.5%, Building 19.1%, Destruction 15.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Driving 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game emphasizes complex mechanical building and physics, allowing for highly detailed vehicle creation.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Racing 31.4%, Building 30%, Sandbox 26.7%, Physics 8.4%, Multiplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at modular vehicle building, challenging you to create machines that can traverse diverse environments using physics-based components.

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 42.9%, Driving 17%, Racing 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly detailed mechanical assembly process, requiring you to build a car from individual parts and maintain it.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Destruction 29.6%, Building 26%, Sandbox 23.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Physics 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on medieval siege engines, its core mechanic of building complex, physics-driven machines is a perfect match for fans of engineering games.

The most popular vehicle mechanic simulator in the world got a second life in the new Steam version! Build cars, tune them, crash, repair and race against other racers!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 42.4%, Racing 22.1%, Driving 12.6%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that focuses on the granular assembly and tuning of cars for street racing.

Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.8%, Building 33.5%, Simulation 15.9%, Physics 8.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game allows for the creation of complex vehicles and machines using a robust physics engine.

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.7%, Racing 20.3%, Building 20%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sophisticated building system that focuses on aerodynamics and physics, applying similar engineering principles to aircraft.

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.3%, Racing 26%, Destruction 19.5%, Driving 10.9%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-octane racing experience with a heavy focus on realistic physics and vehicle deformation.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.6%, Building 41.8%, Physics 10.7%, Multiplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game requires deep engineering knowledge to build functional vehicles and systems for complex rescue missions.

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.2%, Destruction 24.6%, Driving 16.4%, Racing 15.3%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features advanced physics-based destruction, where building the right vehicle is key to demolishing structures.

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Building 37.5%, Sandbox 34.8%, Simulation 14%, Physics 9.8%, Multiplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly flexible robotics and vehicle building suite that emphasizes creative engineering and physics.

Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.7%, Building 20%, Racing 14.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Driving 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a realistic mechanical simulation that focuses on the intricate assembly and maintenance of high-performance vehicles.

Tune your dream drift car, change parts, boost performance and challenge other players on Japan's legendary EBISU circuits!

Why similar: Racing 37.5%, Automobile Sim 28.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Driving 10.4%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the technical setup and tuning of cars specifically for the art of drifting.

Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34%, Racing 16.8%, Driving 15.9%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: This life-sim features a significant focus on building and tuning a car from the ground up to compete in local races.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Building 48.1%, Sandbox 43.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a deep modular vehicle building system where your design choices directly dictate your combat effectiveness.

Drive all kinds of RC Cars, Boats, Rock Crawlers, Planes or Quadcopters on any of the 250+ Workshop Tracks. The game includes an in-game Track Editor and Vehicle Painter to create tons of scenarios and Paint schemes. RC Sim is made by a solo developer and still is in development.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.3%, Racing 22.9%, Driving 11.3%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a physics-based RC driving experience that captures the feel of smaller-scale vehicle handling and engineering.

Apex Point is an open world game that aims to immerge you into the Japanese car culture by providing a huge variety of customizations and race types so you can choose your own path

Why similar: Automobile Sim 47.3%, Racing 30.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Driving 9.3%, Multiplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic driving and tuning experience that emphasizes the technical aspects of car modification.

AUTOMOBILISTA places you in the driving seat of an advanced racing simulator, featuring elite brazilian racing series along with a wide range of racing vehicles and international tracks for a uniquely diverse motorsports experience.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 51.2%, Racing 33.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Driving 4.1%, Multiplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a high-fidelity racing simulator that provides a realistic driving experience for those who want to test their custom builds.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 48%, Sandbox 14.6%, Racing 13.7%, Driving 13.2%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed look at the mechanical components of cars, perfect for those interested in the maintenance and assembly side of vehicles.

MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 36.1%, Racing 16.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Driving 11.7%, Building 11.1%

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Building 49.7%, Sandbox 39.1%, Physics 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building modular vehicles from scavenged parts to explore and survive in an open world.

Car racing game with soft-body damage, race track builder, track database and multiplayer

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.1%, Racing 16.3%, Destruction 14.3%, Driving 11.9%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines racing with a level editor, allowing players to create their own tracks and test their vehicles in custom environments.

Car Constructor will allow you to build, repair and paint your own car, then check it out on the race track!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.6%, Racing 28%, Sandbox 14.1%, Driving 10.6%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual approach to building and racing cars that captures the basic spirit of vehicle design.

Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. Build, upgrade, and maintain your old off road truck. Make money using your skills in driving, scavenging, gambling, or moonshine brewing. Try to build a truck capable of taking on the difficult challenges around the map.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 60.5%, Driving 26.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Multiplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on the process of building, repairing, and upgrading a truck from scrap parts in a physics-based world.

SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.5%, Destruction 15.3%, Building 14.2%, Racing 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%

CAR TUNE: Project is a detailed car tuning simulator where every bolt, screw, and gear matters. Build your dream machine, fine-tune every parameter, and test it on the track.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32.3%, Racing 16.4%, Driving 15.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Destruction 12.9%

Rise as a drift master and missile car mechanic! DRIFT ISLAND is an open-world drift build-and-drive game. Create unique 'missile cars,' tune them, shred sideways, and test your skills! Earn cash, upgrade parts, and become a true drifting legend!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.7%, Racing 21.2%, Driving 15.5%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 5.4%

Car Service Together is a 1-4 co-op & single player simulation game where you and/or with your friends start from scratch and build your way up. Work together to successfully run your own service center. Team up, manage your business, and create the ultimate car service !

Why similar: Automobile Sim 36.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Driving 15.2%, Building 13.8%, Racing 10.9%

Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 44.4%, Building 13.5%, Driving 12.9%, Racing 11.8%, Simulation 9.7%

Can you handle 1600HP of pure monster truck chaos? Crush cars, soar through massive jumps, and build your own tracks in Monster Truck Destruction—now bigger than ever with new trucks, modes, and multiplayer mayhem!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 58.8%, Racing 27.2%, Destruction 8.8%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the physics of monster truck racing and destruction, providing a fun, arcade-style take on vehicle performance.

New cars, new tools, new options, more parts and much more fun in the next version of Car Mechanic Simulator! Take your wrench! Create and expand your auto repairs service empire. Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 will take you behind the scenes of daily routine in car workshop.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 54.9%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Driving 10.4%, Racing 10.1%

Choose from one of two different car models! Customize it in your own way, then try it on the track!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.8%, Racing 35.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Indie 3.6%, Multiplayer 1.2%

D Series is an off road driving simulation with custom track editor built into the Steam Workshop. It was originally released in 2015 and completely rebuilt for 2017 with all new vehicles and a new controller input system.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.8%, Racing 26.4%, Driving 9.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 6.8%

Build the car of your dreams to compete in intense drag races, featuring detailed mechanics, advanced customization, and realistic physics. Tune every part of the engine, control the revs with precision, and win through reaction and skill.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.6%, Racing 32.8%, Driving 13.8%, Simulation 7.8%

drift,jump,crash,shortcut,park, map editor

Why similar: Automobile Sim 36.2%, Racing 32.8%, Driving 15.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Physics 6.8%

Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.8%, Racing 18.1%, Driving 16.1%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.4%

Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.2%, Destruction 21.1%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 5.7%

Welcome to the world of high-stakes tuning and street racing! Welcome to Underground Garage! It's your playground where you can unleash your creativity and mechanical prowess. Fix cars, tune them up, and hit the road.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.9%, Racing 23.2%, Driving 18%, Simulation 8.5%, Building 6.7%

Conquer mountain roads, highways, and city streets. Build your dream car with detailed tuning that unleashes the potential of “CarX Technology”© physics. Take part in thrilling races, enjoying realistic gameplay and dynamic driving.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.5%, Racing 23.6%, Driving 16.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 6%

Climb aboard your vehicle and become the master of the track!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 47.1%, Racing 37%, Simulation 12.1%, Indie 3.8%

Revhead is a car racing simulation game, where you have to build your own race car. You start your journey somewhere in a small village in Australia. You have to think as a real Revhead! You can buy or sell cars and components, fix and tweak your car to make it the fastest around.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.7%, Racing 18.7%, Building 17.3%, Driving 16%, Simulation 6.9%

Become a builder and renovator of garages and car repair shops. Your task is to complete jobs and build up your empire by buying and restoring old facilities. Grab your hammer, your mortar, and get to work!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 36.1%, Sandbox 16.2%, Driving 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Racing 10.5%

Choose a car, perform amazing stunts and drifts, collect as many points you can get and buy the rest of the cars.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 68.8%, Simulation 13%, Driving 12.7%, Indie 3.9%, Multiplayer 1.6%

Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground is a playable sneak peek at the driving and demolition physics from the upcoming Demolition & Build 3. In the game, you take control of a modern excavator and drive around a small test track or demolish structures.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.8%, Destruction 22.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Driving 10.9%

Drive!Drive!Drive! is a racing game unlike any other, where players must drive their cars to victory across multiple tracks at the same time.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 50.8%, Racing 29.7%, Driving 15.4%, Indie 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.4%

Build vehicles from the ground up and drive them across a hostile open world. Scavenge parts, tools and supplies, engineer your chassis, engine, wiring and controls by hand, and fight off wildlife, the undead and rival survivors. Play Survival solo or in 6-player co-op, or build freely in Sandbox.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32%, Sandbox 19%, Building 18.6%, Driving 15.5%, Simulation 7.9%

Water Physics Simulation & Sandbox! Build ships and let them sink! Build cars and let them sink! Use bombs and destroy ragdolls. Play with natural disasters or create towns.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.9%, Sandbox 21%, Destruction 20.7%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 11.1%

Survive 🏚️, Gain Reputation ✊, Earn Money 💸, Build Your Car 🛠️, Win Races 🏁, Become a Legend 👑

Why similar: Automobile Sim 50.1%, Driving 20.2%, Racing 17.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 2.8%

City Car Driving 2.0 is a driving simulator designed to help novice drivers master driving in a setting as close to reality as possible.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.9%, Racing 17.4%, Driving 15.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 10.6%

Ready for mayhem? Wreckfest is back, offering the best in full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction! Witness head-to-head battles as you tear apart rival vehicles bit by bit. Powered by the enhanced physics engine, developed by the creators of Wreckfest & FlatOut!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.7%, Racing 28.9%, Destruction 18%, Driving 11.4%, Simulation 7.2%

EV3 is built by real life drag racers. The fun of drag racing is driving, not just pushing buttons. In EV3 you actually drive the car using realistic variable gas pedal, steering, braking, realistic suspension and engine/torque response... It's all there.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 50.8%, Racing 35.6%, Simulation 9.8%, Indie 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.1%

Car Service Simulator is a car service business simulation game where you start from scratch and work your way up. Take the chance to successfully run your own service center, offering a wide range of services from car repair to painting and modification.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 43.3%, Racing 27%, Driving 18.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Multiplayer 0.9%

Breakout Garage is an open world racing game, created by 2 indie developers, that takes place in small town USA. Featuring old-school American vehicles that you can build from scratch based on your preferences and race them in different types of races.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 44.4%, Racing 30.1%, Driving 13.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Physics 1.1%