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Games like My Winter Car

If My Winter Car is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Summer Car, Return To The Village and An Other Golf Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its anxious, brutal and challenging. 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.

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About My Winter 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!

2025IndieSimulationEarly AccessRacing14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Amistech Games
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Brutal finnish winter survival mechanicsDark humor with absurd alcohol mechanicsDetailed car building simulation from scattered partsAnxiousBrutalChallenging

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Steam players who put hours into My Winter Car 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.

  1. My Summer Car

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with My Winter Car.

    Top pick for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    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.

    2025IndieSimulationRacing14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Return To The Village

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    Return To The Village is an exciting village simulator with survival elements and an open world where complete freedom of action reigns. Immerse yourself in the unique gameplay of the game that will not let you get bored.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. An Other Golf Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares permadeath, survival management, survival and a punishing mood with My Winter Car.

    Third-strongest match for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    An odd, openish-world life sim where you must learn how to make money just so you can afford to learn how to play golf. A truly unique golf experience with permadeath.

    2024SportsIndieSimulation5.59 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Country Drive Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    Country Drive Simulator invites you to explore a vast, fictional open world inspired by both American and European countryside landscapes. Navigate through diverse terrains, from bustling cities to serene rural areas, engaging in realistic driving experiences and logistics operations.​

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Motorcycle For Sale Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    Buy, fix, customize, and sell motorcycles. Start with old bikes, restore every part, test ride, and grow your own dealership. Take risks, make smart deals, and become the best in town!

    IndieSimulationRacingSteam ↗
  6. DRIFT ISLAND

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization, simulation and a challenging mood with My Winter Car.

    Ranked #6 for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    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!

    2025IndieSimulationEarly Access7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. OHV

    WHY THIS

    Shares physics simulation, vehicle customization and a challenging mood with My Winter Car.

    Ranked #7 for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    Build your own buggy. Obtain, maintain and tune your OHV car. A game set in Poland in the 90s.

    2024IndieSimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Slaverian Trucker

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization and a dark mood with My Winter Car.

    Ranked #8 for My Winter Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    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.

    2026IndieSimulationRacing11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Winter Car at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with My Winter Car.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under My Winter Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Winter Car.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Winter Car.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Winter Car.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about My Winter Car

Does My Winter Car run on Steam Deck?
My Winter Car 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 My Winter Car cost?
My Winter Car is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to My Winter Car?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Winter Car are My Summer Car, Return To The Village, An Other Golf Game.
Who developed My Winter Car?
My Winter Car was developed by Amistech Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on My Winter Car.

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