Games like Junkyard Truck
If Junkyard Truck is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Winter Car, Mon Bazou and The Long Drive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep vehicle customization matters, challenging and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Junkyard Truck, developed and published by Keystone Knight in 2022, is an off-road truck-building and survival sandbox. Players salvage parts and deeply customize vehicles, take on job-based progression, manage inventory, and survive in a persistent open world where off-roading physics make terrain feel tactile. Reviewers describe deep vehicle customization, off-roading that feels rewarding, and strong developer engagement with regular updates. Built for long, grind-friendly solo sessions at a challenging difficulty, it is an early-access title in the simulation genre. The game is Steam Deck Playable, holds a 77% positive rating across 1,029 Steam reviews, and costs 14.99 USD. A pick for sim fans who want to build, repair and drive their own trucks across rough terrain while scraping together a living.
About Junkyard Truck: 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.
Players who liked Junkyard Truck also play
Steam players who put hours into Junkyard Truck also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
My Winter Car
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a challenging mood with Junkyard Truck.
Top pick for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Junkyard Truck.
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!
Mon Bazou
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Second-strongest match for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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?
The Long Drive
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization with Junkyard Truck.
Third-strongest match for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
The Slaverian Trucker
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization, inventory management and a whimsical mood with Junkyard Truck.
Ranked #4 for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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.
Apex Point
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Junkyard Truck.
Ranked #5 for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Junkyard Truck.
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
Junkyard Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Ranked #6 for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Junkyard Truck.
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.
OHV
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a retro mood with Junkyard Truck.
Ranked #7 for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Junkyard Truck.
Build your own buggy. Obtain, maintain and tune your OHV car. A game set in Poland in the 90s.
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Ranked #8 for Junkyard Truck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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!
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Mon Bazou
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Reviewers of Junkyard Truck cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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?
My Garage
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Reviewers of Junkyard Truck cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.
My Summer Car
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Junkyard Truck.
Reviewers of Junkyard Truck cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Junkyard Truck at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Junkyard Truck.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Junkyard Truck on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Aimlabs
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Fishing Planet
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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DCS World Steam Edition
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Moonbase Alpha
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.
Amorous
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Truck.
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Frequently asked about Junkyard Truck
- Does Junkyard Truck run on Steam Deck?
- Junkyard Truck is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Junkyard Truck cost?
- Junkyard Truck is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Junkyard Truck?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Junkyard Truck are My Winter Car, Mon Bazou, The Long Drive.
- Who developed Junkyard Truck?
- Junkyard Truck was developed by Keystone Knight.
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