Best Automobile Sim Games on Steam
Driving games focused on realistic cars, handling, tuning, or vehicle ownership.
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1Euro Truck Simulator 2 - 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.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
2BeamNG.drive - A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
May 29, 2015
In this game, you can…
- change gravity settings and watch the same truck drive completely differently under moon or Jupiter gravity.
- join multiplayer races and chases, and keep driving even with half your truck bent under itself.
- wrap a car around itself by slamming it into a fence over and over.
- spawn traffic, rear-end someone, and get launched airborne for five seconds in the wreck.
- break your suspension cutting a rally corner, then limp the rest of the stage to the finish.
- build absurd custom vehicles, like a JATO rocket semi, then immediately stress-test them out in the world.
- take on deliveries, bus routes, police chases, and truck jobs where normal tasks turn dramatic because the physics won't fake it.
- hit traffic at highway speed, then crash into a jam in slow motion and watch the pileup deform in detail.
3Forza Horizon 4 - Dynamic seasons change everything at the world’s greatest automotive festival. Go it alone or team up with others to explore beautiful and historic Britain in a shared open world.
Mar 9, 2021
In this game, you can…
- watch the entire map flip seasons together each week, until winter freezes lakes solid and you can drive straight across them.
- drive the Halo Warthog in a crossover mission, then unlock a Cyberpunk car by winning a head-to-head challenge.
- drop into a car battle royale, hunt upgrades on the map, then win by beating other players in head-to-head races.
- race a train in a tiny 1959 Ford Anglia as a full set-piece event.
- slam a supercar through stone walls, trees, and fences at 250–350 kph without stopping.
- stumble onto hidden barn cars, haul them out as rusty wrecks, then restore them into pristine classics you can actually race.
- mess up a corner, rewind time, take the turn again, and keep the race alive instead of restarting.
4American Truck Simulator - Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Feb 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get stuck in a traffic jam because there's a small plane sitting on the highway behind cones and a cop car.
- neglect your truck and have it get worse mid-trip, like the engine starting to fail or the gearbox losing high gears.
- start as a hired driver, buy your first truck, then build garages and hire drivers until your fleet's income covers your tickets and repairs.
- choose a hard backing-in, an easy pull-in, or skip parking at the end of every delivery.
- back a long trailer into a loading dock using only your mirrors, with handling that can feel real enough to train the skill.
- roll into a delivery yard at night with a double load, thread tight turns without clipping anything, then inch the trailer into place a few feet at a time.
- hit the brakes and downshift an 18-speed in fog and rain when a car blows a stop sign, then still make the dock, grab a new trailer, and keep hauling.
- run convoys with friends, drive side by side, refuel together, and deal with the same chaotic merges while everyone watches it happen.
5Assetto Corsa - 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!
Dec 19, 2014
In this game, you can…
- blast down Tokyo's Shutoko expressway at night through dense traffic, with headlights and city lights doing the only guiding.
- crash into another driver on a highway server, both of you wait, crash again, then end up driving together for an hour without a single chat message.
- chain mods into totally different activities, from GT races to touge runs, drift nights, open-world city traffic, and even driving a lawn mower or a dinosaur.
- drive a laser-scanned Monza, including the old banked Sopraelevata oval that real races used until 1961.
- wear your tires into flat spots, heat-cycle them, and lay rubber onto the track lap after lap.
- turn up the boost in a Lotus 98T, feel the car squirm as power hits, and manage it so you don't blow the engine.
- put on a VR headset and race through traffic or carve modded roads with full depth and scale instead of a flat screen.
- tweak toe, camber, ride height, springs, and aero, then chase how every change reshapes the car's balance as fuel burns off.
6My 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.
Jan 8, 2025
In this game, you can…
- tighten every bolt on a mail-ordered car build, and watch a single missed one make a wheel fall off on the road.
- leave a sauna oven on, come back later, and find the whole house on fire.
- enter a rally event, wreck your build, rebuild it, and keep retrying until you finally take first place.
- tune engine timing and valves by hand, and wreck the engine if you set them wrong.
- tow a broken car with a tractor, have the rope snap at train tracks, reattach it, and watch a train obliterate the car.
- steal a slot machine with a van, hit the owner on his bike, and roll up to a police checkpoint with illegal fuel and bad brakes.
- assemble a car from hundreds of loose parts while juggling food, sleep, beer, sauna, and needing to pee.
7Mad Max - Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
Sep 1, 2015
In this game, you can…
- eat a corpse for health when you search a body and Max just shoves his hand into the remains.
- race into a massive sandstorm where lightning and debris swallow the wasteland and you have to reach shelter before it overwhelms you.
- slam your car into enemy vehicles at 90 mph, then chain nitro, harpoons, rams, and explosives to peel a convoy apart.
- chase a convoy across half the map, wreck it piece by piece, then spot something new on the horizon and get pulled into another fight.
- use a harpoon to rip apart cars mid-chase by yanking enemies off the road and tearing key parts loose.
- build your car from a rusty wreck into a custom combat machine by swapping engine, armor, spikes, suspension, and body style.
- clear a whole region by destroying camps, scarecrows, snipers, minefields, and patrols until the threat level hits zero and enemies spawn less.
- walk into a roadside standoff, then set a gas can on fire and drop it on the guy who challenged you to a fistfight.
8CarX Drift Racing Online - CarX Drift Racing Online is your chance to immerse yourself in the real world of drifting. Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!
Nov 17, 2017
In this game, you can…
- slam into a wall at 300 km/h and keep driving.
- run 10–16 cars in a single tandem line through a mountain road without breaking formation.
- drive modded mega-maps that stitch dozens of real-life mountain passes into one connected route with highways.
- stumble into a lobby and end up tandem drifting with five strangers.
- build absurd swaps, like dropping a V8 into a Miata.
- tune a car until it goes from undrivable to a dialed-in drift machine.
- wrestle a force-feedback wheel when the car snaps back mid-drift.
9Farming Simulator 19 - The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.
Nov 19, 2018
In this game, you can…
- buy a chunk of forest, cut it down, and turn the cleared land into a brand-new field.
- haul harvesters so huge they can't road-drive by towing them on a semi and oversized trailer.
- set up automation paths that harvest, unload, and deliver crops to chosen destinations while you manage the rest.
- start with almost nothing, take contract jobs for other farmers, and slowly buy your own land and machines.
- build your farm from scratch by placing sheds and buildings wherever you want on your own land.
- run a separate logging business by felling trees with machinery, hauling logs, and cashing in on forestry.
- ride your own horse across the map to explore beyond the fields.
- take on a sugar beet harvest by leasing the exact machines you need, finish the job, and turn a profit without ever buying them.
10Brick Rigs - Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Jul 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- spawn a car, start driving, and get obliterated by a thermonuclear pizza flying past at mach 23.
- spawn a full McDonald's, then hit it at light speed with a flying cigarette box and watch the whole building explode apart.
- crash a nuclear-cargo train off a bridge and turn it into a city-sized wreck.
- build a working tank, invite friends, and blow enemy LEGO tanks into pieces in multiplayer battles.
- snap together custom LEGO vehicles fast in the editor, then drive them and rewatch the wrecks in slow motion.
- download workshop creations like helicopters, planes, APCs, and trains, then throw them into derbies, dogfights, races, and custom maps.
- build vehicles from scratch using steering, suspension, sensors, and logic, then finally get a fully functional machine rolling.
- trigger explosions so huge they can crash a multiplayer server or even your PC.
