Games like My Summer Car
If My Summer Car is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Winter Car, inBOX and BeamNG.drive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark 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 →My Summer Car is an indie simulation developed by Amistech Games in which players assemble and maintain vehicles from hundreds of loose parts. The game tasks players with building engines component by component, finding work to earn money, and managing hunger and thirst while navigating rural Finland. Mechanics include a drunkenness system, physics-based destruction, and survival elements that create a punishing economy where mistakes are costly. Reviewers highlight that the detailed automotive systems teach real-world mechanical knowledge and that car assembly feels painfully realistic. Players describe the dark humor and emergent chaos as creating endless replayability, while the isolated Finnish countryside contributes to an atmospheric and stressful tone. The game holds a 93 percent positive rating from over 36,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About My Summer 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.
Players who liked My Summer Car also play
Steam players who put hours into My Summer 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.
My Winter Car
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with My Summer Car.
Top pick for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with 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!
inBOX
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
Get up at 4 a.m., fight hunger, fatigue and physiological needs, start the van and deliver packages to backwater villages.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with My Summer Car.
Third-strongest match for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with My Summer Car.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with My Summer Car.
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.
Assetto Corsa
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with My Summer Car.
Ranked #5 for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!
DiRT Rally 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Ranked #6 for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with My Summer Car.
DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with My Summer Car.
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.
City Car Driving
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Ranked #8 for My Summer Car fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to My Summer Car
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HELLION
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
After a century in cryosleep you find yourself stranded amidst the ruins of mankind’s first interstellar colony. Explore derelict ships and stations and harvest raw resources in search of air, fuel and other equipment. Or loot and pillage what you need from other survivors. The choice is yours!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Landlord's Super
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
Your quintessential construction simulator is here. Take a dodgy loan, restore a property, move in the locals, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint in this fully-simulated, open-world 1980's Britain.
Junkyard Truck
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with My Summer Car.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
My Winter Car
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with 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!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Summer Car.
Reviewers of My Summer Car cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Summer Car at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer 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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Summer 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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Summer 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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Summer 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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Summer 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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer 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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Summer Car on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Summer Car.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Summer 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Summer Car.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about My Summer Car
- Does My Summer Car run on Steam Deck?
- My Summer 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 Summer Car cost?
- My Summer 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 Summer Car?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Summer Car are My Winter Car, inBOX, BeamNG.drive.
- Who developed My Summer Car?
- My Summer 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 Summer Car.
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