Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is a simulation, automobile sim and driving game developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
Released on July 28th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal, Greek, Portuguese - Brazil, Finnish and Korean.

It has received 51,248 reviews of which 46,798 were positive and 4,450 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.77€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 into these genres:

Simulation Automobile Sim Driving Building Realistic Racing Multiplayer Singleplayer First-Person Sandbox Education Crafting Moddable Open World Physics Management Strategy Great Soundtrack Co-op Memes

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows(64-bit) 7 or Newer
Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 20 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.9 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core 3.0 GHz (Intel Only)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or ATI Radeon HD 7870 2GB
Storage: 20 GB available space
Additional Notes: GAME DOES NOT SUPPORT Intel Integrated Graphics Cards and Apple Silicon M chips!

User reviews & Ratings

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Nov. 2024

Was surprisingly fun and relaxing, even if you don't know much about cars. The game strikes a nice balance between realism and accessibility. It's definitely simplified to keep things fun so you're not drowning in overly complicated mechanics. It's realistic enough to teach you the basics, but not so much that you need to be a real-life mechanic to enjoy it. 10/10, would lose sleep again to rebuild an engine that purrs like a kitten.

Sept. 2024

The car was making a ratting noise, so I disassembled the entire engine for an hour only to find out it was the muffler...

July 2024

The game was 90% off I have no idea how cars work or what my objective was, so I just stripped the two cars in the garage, sold the parts and called it a day :)

July 2024

Just spent 30 minutes disassembling an entire engine, only to figure out the problem was the Radiator fan housing. Then spend another 30 minutes re-assembling the engine 10/10 would recommend XD Autism brains will be happy, also OCD ones.

May 2024

Having played '21, here some things I did like in this game compared to the sequel: - repairs: there's no mini-game for every part, you either manage to repair part of it or all of it (or even fail) with a press, no constantly timing when to press... for those of us who manage to end up with large amounts to repair, the mini-game in '21 can be, well... absolutely tedious (hint, if you've got lots to repair, use an auto-clicker to avoid excessive clicking here) - junkyard: in '21, all the scrap piles are pre-set and unchanging, just the contents... with '18, the placement is randomised, not to mention around 2-3 times more plentiful... in addition, there's often more cars to be found and salvaged - cars: in general, '18 has more workshop cars available, but this is only due to how long both games have been out, however I'd consider '21 more in this aspect *if* the developers allowed '18 workshop cars to be imported to '21 - but that hasn't happened yet, so i'll vote '18 for this part as well due to the much much wider range of cars on offer to find in-game (once you subscribe to all the cars you like or are impressed by) - auction: here, it's hard to say which is better, but certainly '21 would be easier to consider - there's more cars on offer, and you can view cars without the wait time or going through the entire list of cars on offer before bidding on the one you wanted (sometimes it's at the end, so you have to view up to 9 cars prior...). of course the downside in '21 is that once you're in the auction yard or showcase (depending on which one), you're presented with the chosen car and then a lot of other display cars but you can only properly view the chosen car.... - garage: it's more visually impressive to view a collection of up to 10 cars per garage level, than just viewing one at a time when visiting ('21 only allows viewing 1 at a time)

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