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Car Mechanic Simulator 2021

Aug 11, 2021 Racing $24.99
Developer Red Dot Games Publisher PlayWay S.A.
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This racing simulation game, released in 2021, offers players a detailed car maintenance experience. With over 34,821 Steam reviews, it demonstrates significant player engagement. The developer is currently unknown.

Overview

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 is a 2021 Racing game developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 35,312 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Racing category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Red Dot Games with publisher PlayWay S.A. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Racing projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.7 million to 4.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 can be compared against similar Racing titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

35,312

Positive

96%

Steam appid

1190000

Engine

n/a

Sales estimate

vv1.0

1.7M to 4.0M

units (median: 2.8M)

$24.2M to $56.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.7Mmedian4.0M

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 at roughly 1.7 million to 4.0 million copies, with a median around 2.8 million, derived from its 35,312 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $40.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

90d · low $13.57

Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.57 to $24.99, averaging $22.95 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.57 on 2026-05-03.

$11 $19 $27 03-0903-2704-1405-0105-1906-06 2026-03-09: $24.99 2026-03-10: $24.99 2026-03-11: $24.99 2026-03-12: $24.99 2026-03-13: $24.99 2026-03-14: $24.99 2026-03-15: $24.99 2026-03-16: $24.99 2026-03-17: $24.99 2026-03-18: $24.99 2026-03-19: $24.99 2026-03-20: $24.99 2026-03-21: $24.99 2026-03-22: $24.99 2026-03-23: $24.99 2026-03-24: $24.99 2026-03-25: $16.66 2026-03-26: $16.66 2026-03-27: $16.66 2026-03-28: $24.99 2026-03-29: $24.99 2026-03-30: $24.99 2026-03-31: $24.99 2026-04-01: $24.99 2026-04-02: $24.99 2026-04-03: $24.99 2026-04-04: $24.99 2026-04-05: $24.99 2026-04-06: $24.99 2026-04-07: $24.99 2026-04-08: $24.99 2026-04-09: $24.99 2026-04-10: $24.99 2026-04-11: $24.99 2026-04-12: $13.79 2026-04-13: $13.79 2026-04-14: $13.79 2026-04-15: $13.79 2026-04-16: $13.79 2026-04-17: $13.79 2026-04-18: $24.99 2026-04-19: $24.99 2026-04-20: $24.99 2026-04-21: $24.99 2026-04-22: $24.99 2026-04-23: $24.99 2026-04-24: $24.99 2026-04-25: $24.99 2026-04-26: $24.99 2026-04-27: $24.99 2026-04-28: $24.99 2026-04-29: $24.99 2026-04-30: $24.99 2026-05-01: $24.99 2026-05-02: $24.99 2026-05-03: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-04: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-05: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-06: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-07: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-08: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-09: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-10: $13.57 (historical low) 2026-05-11: $24.99 2026-05-12: $24.99 2026-05-13: $24.99 2026-05-14: $24.99 2026-05-15: $24.99 2026-05-16: $24.99 2026-05-17: $24.99 2026-05-18: $24.99 2026-05-19: $24.99 2026-05-20: $24.99 2026-05-21: $24.99 2026-05-22: $24.99 2026-05-23: $24.99 2026-05-24: $24.99 2026-05-25: $24.99 2026-05-26: $24.99 2026-05-27: $24.99 2026-05-28: $24.99 2026-05-29: $24.99 2026-05-30: $24.99 2026-05-31: $24.99 2026-06-01: $24.99 2026-06-02: $24.99 2026-06-03: $24.99 2026-06-04: $24.99 2026-06-05: $24.99 2026-06-06: $24.99 Historical low: $13.57 on 2026-05-03

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Platforms

windows

Tags

SimulationAutomobile SimRealisticSandboxModdableDrivingRacing3DSingleplayerEducationFirst-PersonImmersive SimPuzzleOpen WorldAtmosphericAdventureMinigamesVRIndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 sold?
indielist estimates Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 has sold between 1,694,976 and 3,954,944 units (median 2,824,960), derived from its 35,312 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Car Mechanic Simulator 2021?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 was developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
When was Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 released?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 have on Steam?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 has 35,312 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 sold?
indielist estimates Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 has sold between 1,694,976 and 3,954,944 units (median 2,824,960), derived from its 35,312 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Car Mechanic Simulator 2021?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 was developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
When was Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 released?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 have on Steam?
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 has 35,312 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Ecosystem

indielist positions Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 within the Racing segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Red Dot Games's other releases and PlayWay S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Racing game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.