Games like Junkyard Simulator
If Junkyard Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Car Mechanic Simulator 2018, Gold Mining Simulator and Truck & Logistics Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its immersive, relaxing and monetization systems. 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 Simulator is a strategy and simulation game released in 2021 by Rebelia Games and published by PlayWay S.A. Players take on the role of managing a junkyard business, where they salvage scrap from cars, restore vehicles, and handle various side-quests while navigating monetization systems and realistic vehicle handling. The game features restoration mechanics and resource management as core gameplay elements within an open-world sandbox environment. Set at a medium length with normal difficulty, it is designed for solo play in a sit-down session format. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive and relaxing, and they highlight that the developers provide constant updates with new mechanics while remaining responsive to player feedback. The game currently holds a 63% positive rating based on 1,033 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Junkyard Simulator: 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.
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Top pick for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
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.
Gold Mining Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Second-strongest match for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
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.
Truck & Logistics Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Third-strongest match for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
Load, drive, and deliver through a huge open world with up to 24 players in cross-platform multiplayer. Join your friends in exciting heavy transport convoys. Jump into the driver's seat of more than 30 unique vehicles and carry out complex loading tasks to deliver a variety of cargo.
Demolish & Build 2018
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Ranked #4 for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
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.
Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
Enter the World of Diesel! Grab some of the biggest four-wheelers. Trick these trucks, flip them for a profit or race against your friends online. This can go hard or this can go diesel!
Construction Simulator 2015
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Ranked #6 for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Ranked #7 for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
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!
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Junkyard Simulator.
Ranked #8 for Junkyard Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Junkyard Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Junkyard Simulator.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Junkyard Simulator.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Junkyard Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
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 Junkyard Simulator.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Junkyard Simulator.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Junkyard Simulator.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Junkyard Simulator
- Does Junkyard Simulator work on Steam Deck?
- Junkyard Simulator is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Junkyard Simulator cost?
- Junkyard Simulator is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Junkyard Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Junkyard Simulator are Car Mechanic Simulator 2018, Gold Mining Simulator, Truck & Logistics Simulator.
- Who developed Junkyard Simulator?
- Junkyard Simulator was developed by Rebelia Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
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