Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
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A racing-adjacent mechanic simulation indie game, Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 focuses on repairing and tuning cars rather than track competition. Released in 2017 by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A., it has 48,153 Steam reviews at 91% positive and launched at $19.99.
Overview
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is a 2017 Racing game developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 48,160 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Racing category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.6 million to 6.1 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 2018 can be compared against similar Racing titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
48,160
Positive
91%
Steam appid
645630
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.6M to 6.1M
units (median: 4.3M)
≈ $29.7M to $69.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 at roughly 2.6 million to 6.1 million copies, with a median around 4.3 million, derived from its 48,160 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $49.5M 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 $13.32Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.32 to $19.99, averaging $18.98 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.32 on 2026-04-08.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 sold?
- indielist estimates Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 has sold between 2,600,640 and 6,068,160 units (median 4,334,400), derived from its 48,160 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Car Mechanic Simulator 2018?
- Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 was developed by Red Dot Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
- When was Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 released?
- Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 have on Steam?
- Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 has 48,160 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 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 2018 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 2018 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.