Games Like My Summer Car

My Winter Car is the ultimate challenge for project car owning, building, fixing, tuning and maintenance simulator. Sequel to My Summer Car, but with added challenge for those who can master the original game!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.7%, Driving 19%, Racing 10.5%, Open World 8.4%, Realistic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The direct follow-up preserves the hands-on vehicle building, Finnish life-sim routine, and unforgiving survival-driven car ownership that define My Summer Car.

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.7%, Driving 15.2%, Open World 10.6%, Racing 8.8%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It closely matches the appeal of restoring, modifying, and driving project vehicles while living in an open-world garage-and-workshop sandbox.

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 35.9%, Driving 23.3%, Racing 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This rural life sim combines upgrading an old car, earning money through jobs, tuning vehicles, and managing everyday needs in a similarly laid-back but demanding sandbox.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.2%, Driving 25%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 7.7%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: You maintain a battered family car piece by piece during a long road trip, balancing repairs, fuel, cargo, and the risks of the journey.

Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.2%, Driving 21.1%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 8.4%, Racing 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its strange procedural road trips revolve around scavenging, repairing, fueling, and customizing whatever vehicle keeps you alive in the wilderness.

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 43.7%, Driving 26.2%, Open World 15.8%, Simulation 8.1%, First-Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: You build and revive an old truck from junkyard parts, then use it for off-road exploration, hauling, and survival-oriented work.

Obtain, maintain and tune your "OHV" car. Build your own buggy. Build your own garage. Race to win trophies. Work to earn money. A Open world game set in Poland in the 90s.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 43.7%, Driving 26.3%, Open World 10.9%, Simulation 8.1%, Racing 6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world off-road sim emphasizes assembling and modifying vehicles, exploring the countryside, and living with the consequences of breakdowns and rough terrain.

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.3%, Driving 21.4%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 8.8%, Realistic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-ended road-trip exploration with survival systems and hands-on vehicle maintenance across a large, hazardous world.

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.6%, Driving 23.6%, Open World 10.2%, Realistic 8.6%, Racing 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its unmatched soft-body vehicle physics make driving, crashing, testing modifications, and dealing with mechanical consequences feel especially tangible.

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 44.8%, Driving 17.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Realistic 8.1%, Racing 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished workshop loop of diagnosing faults, stripping vehicles down, sourcing parts, and restoring cars from the ground up.

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 42.3%, Building 11.8%, Driving 10.8%, Realistic 9.6%, Racing 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love My Summer Car's mechanical depth, this is an exceptionally detailed first-person simulator of taking apart and rebuilding cars.

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 43.2%, Driving 17.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 6.9%, Racing 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This earlier entry still offers extensive part-by-part repairs, restoration jobs, tuning, and car collecting for players focused on garage work.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Driving 47.2%, Survival 19.2%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.6%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Although more supernatural, it captures the tense bond with a single customizable car that must be repaired, upgraded, and carefully prepared for every trip.

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 40.2%, Racing 14.9%, Open World 12.9%, Driving 11%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world tuner sim lets you buy, repair, customize, and race cars while managing the practical progression of a grassroots automotive life.

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 33.4%, Driving 21.4%, Open World 11.3%, Racing 10.4%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers detailed car restoration, engine tuning, part upgrades, and racing in a dusty Australian setting with a strong project-car focus.

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 46.7%, Driving 19.3%, Racing 14.1%, Building 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep parts-based tuning, engine swaps, repair work, and street-racing progression deliver an old-school project-car fantasy.

Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.1%, Driving 25.8%, Open World 13.9%, Racing 8.2%, Realistic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open world supports a relaxed vehicle-centered working life, with driving jobs, traffic, deliveries, and a strong sense of routine progression.

City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.5%, Driving 29.7%, Open World 9.6%, Simulation 7.8%, Realistic 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more serious driving-focused alternative for players who enjoy operating a car in first person and dealing with realistic road conditions.

Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

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

Why You'll Like It: Building vehicles from components and testing them through driving and racing offers a more sandbox-oriented take on My Summer Car's construction appeal.

Take your opportunity as a real Rally Mechanic. Overcome all the obstacles that the reckless racers throw at you - including unrepairable parts, time limitations and more. Take good care of your rally cars so that on the next special they will perform as good as if they came out of the factory.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.9%, Driving 20.7%, Realistic 11.8%, Racing 10.1%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It turns vehicle preparation and field repairs into the core challenge, with damaged rally cars requiring quick, methodical mechanical attention.

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: Driving 25.1%, Open World 18%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Racing 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a physics-heavy sandbox for building, driving, damaging, and iterating on custom vehicles in an open environment.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Open World 22.8%, Building 19.9%, Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival sandbox encourages gathering parts and constructing improvised vehicles, with a similarly playful willingness to let homemade machines fail spectacularly.

Become a real car mechanic in a very realistic, highly detailed simulator in a fully VR World. REPAIR, PAINT, TUNING with dozens of different tools and almost thousands of parts. BUY old vehicles, restore them, and SELL them at a profit. DRIVE and test all rebuilt cars.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 39.9%, Driving 21.9%, Racing 11.4%, Realistic 8%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Virtual reality makes the familiar disassembly, diagnosis, and rebuilding loop feel more physical and close to My Summer Car's first-person wrenching.

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 45%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Realistic 9.5%, Racing 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is ideal for the design and tuning side of the fantasy, letting you engineer complete cars and experiment with engines, bodies, and performance.

Become a motorbike mechanic and build your empire. Buy, repair, renovate, and create your own dreamed custom motorcycle.

Why similar: Driving 29.1%, Realistic 15.3%, Racing 13%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the workshop fantasy to motorcycles but retains detailed diagnostics, restoration, customization, and component-level mechanical work.

Service off-road vehicles and take them for a drive! Offroad Mechanic Simulator lets you modify many classic off-road vehicles and prepare them for daunting tasks that no normal car could ever hope to complete. Test your work and climb steep cliffs or drive through rivers and deep layers of mud.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 40.1%, Driving 25.9%, Realistic 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Repairing damaged off-road vehicles and preparing them for demanding terrain captures the practical problem-solving side of owning unreliable machinery.

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.6%, Driving 25.3%, Open World 9.2%, Realistic 7.4%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: The slow, punishing off-road driving and careful management of trucks, terrain, fuel, and damage suit players who enjoy consequential vehicle operation.

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.9%, Driving 21.2%, Open World 10.1%, Realistic 7.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the demanding off-road hauling formula with upgrades, recovery work, cargo planning, and a persistent fleet of vehicles to maintain.

The most detailed cottage experience. Live as a regular Finnish man and enjoy the summer. Play relaxed: go to the sauna, get drunk and grill food. Play how you want: make moonshine, become a burglar and turbocharge your moped.

Why similar: Open World 28.2%, Realistic 19.7%, Simulation 17.3%, First-Person 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%

The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.7%, Driving 23.5%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 7.1%, Simulation 6.8%

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 55.1%, Driving 14.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 6.3%, Racing 5.8%

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 35.1%, Driving 20%, Racing 9.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Realistic 8%

Cheap Car Repair - go back in time to Poland of the 90's. Run your own Cheap Car Repair shop. Look for savings wherever you can. Make lots of money and avoid angry customers!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 42.5%, Driving 19.8%, Building 9.1%, Realistic 8.6%, Simulation 7.2%

Buy used cars and motorcycles, negotiate with sellers, and discover each vehicle’s true value. Drive, repair, repaint, and customize your vehicles before selling them for a profit. Start with a small office, grow your dealership, and become the city’s most successful vehicle dealer!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.4%, Driving 29%, Open World 10.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Realistic 6.4%

Now you can own and operate your own auto repair service with PlayWay’s Car Mechanic Simulator 2014. Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 gives you the behind the scenes view of the daily dealings at local garages and dealership repair shops.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 77.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Realistic 3.6%, Racing 2.4%, First-Person 2.2%

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 38%, Driving 22.2%, Realistic 9%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33%, Driving 18.4%, Open World 12.5%, Realistic 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%

My Village Life is an open world village simulator vehicle driving game.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.9%, Driving 20.2%, Open World 12.7%, Racing 12%, Simulation 6.3%

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 50.3%, Driving 21%, Racing 20.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Driving 28.1%, Open World 16.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Realistic 11.7%

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 37.7%, Driving 22.3%, Racing 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 5.8%

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.9%, Racing 24.3%, Driving 16.2%, Simulation 11%, Realistic 5.4%

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 32.8%, Driving 22.1%, Open World 13.5%, Racing 13%, Sandbox 5.6%

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 31.5%, Driving 22.5%, Racing 11.2%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.5%

You inherit your dad’s beaten up car and rebuild it piece by piece, swapping engine parts, upgrading the suspension, fitting new wheels and more until it becomes a high performance race car. Beat your opponents and earn revenge for your dad.

Why similar: Racing 44.3%, Open World 23.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Multiplayer 3.4%

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 35.4%, Driving 24.3%, Racing 10.4%, Open World 9.8%, Realistic 9%

Used Cars Simulator - trade used or stolen cars, fix and customize them, drive around, and explore the open world! Grow your business, complete quests, and have fun with a physics-based sandbox!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.5%, Driving 23.5%, Open World 11.7%, Racing 11.5%, Realistic 7%

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32.3%, Driving 21.3%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 8.7%, Realistic 8%

Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Why similar: Driving 18.6%, Open World 17.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Realistic 13.8%, Automobile Sim 13.2%

Bus World is a game about passenger transportations in various conditions, starting from standard days of a bus driver and ending with rescuing people who suffered from disasters.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.1%, Driving 20.1%, Open World 10.2%, Racing 9.4%, Realistic 7.3%

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 35.1%, Driving 19.5%, Open World 11.2%, Racing 11.1%, Realistic 7%

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 41.9%, Driving 23.4%, Racing 8.3%, Simulation 7%, Open World 6%

Car Detailing Simulator, you get a chance to renew any car and restore its splendor at the request of demanding customers! A nice and well-groomed vehicle can be the pride of every human being! Clean, polish and marvel at your creations in this highly realistic game where every little detail counts!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 39.3%, Driving 19.4%, Racing 11.5%, Realistic 9.8%, Building 7.3%

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 36.5%, Driving 21.2%, Racing 13.1%, Realistic 8.4%, Simulation 7.4%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Driving 33.4%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 13.8%, Realistic 11.6%, Sandbox 8.7%

Uncover a goldmine in the used car market! Sniff out deals, buy low, modify, and sell high. Your journey from amateur grease monkey to car dealer magnate awaits. How fast will you rise in this lucrative venture?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.7%, Driving 26.5%, Open World 12.5%, Realistic 8.5%, Simulation 7.2%

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 42%, Driving 20.3%, Racing 20.2%, Simulation 5.6%, Multiplayer 3.8%

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 33.8%, Driving 22.3%, Open World 12.9%, Racing 11.9%, Realistic 6.9%

Physics based, off road truck and bus simulation.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.8%, Driving 32.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Realistic 7.8%

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: Open World 28.2%, Building 20.7%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, First-Person 8.9%