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In Car Dealership Simulator 2 you: drive realistic cars, live a daily life

1,465 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

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  1. Car For Sale Simulator 2023

    • Shooter
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: trade, a family-friendly feel

    Why you’d like it: Buying cars at the market, modifying them and selling them on carries over, with added haggling where the other side might deceive you.

    See on Steam: Car For Sale Simulator 2023 (opens in a new tab)

  2. Car Service Together

    • Simulation
    • Co-op
    • Early access
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: run a simulation

    New here: choose how the story goes, a sandbox to play in

    Why you’d like it: Repairing and modifying cars carries over, but here you run a garage fixing engines and brakes, solo or with up to three friends.

    See on Steam: Car Service Together (opens in a new tab)

  3. Game Store Simulator

    • Life and farm
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: balance an economy, a family-friendly feel

    Why you’d like it: Game Store Simulator keeps the buy-low, sell-high shop loop and driving, but you haul video game cargo and watch your vehicle’s fuel and damage.

    See on Steam: Game Store Simulator (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Auto Sale Life

    • Life and farm
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: a film-like feel, surreal scenes

    See on Steam: Auto Sale Life (opens in a new tab)

  2. Car Dealer Simulator

    • Life and farm
    • Solo
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: trade, a family-friendly feel

    See on Steam: Car Dealer Simulator (opens in a new tab)

  3. Used Cars Simulator

    • Racing
    • Solo
    • Early access
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: trade, exploring

    See on Steam: Used Cars Simulator (opens in a new tab)

  4. Car Mechanic Simulator 2014

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: run a simulation

    New here: solve puzzles, learning

    See on Steam: Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 (opens in a new tab)

  5. Car Mechanic Simulator 2015

    • Simulation
    • Solo
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: run a simulation

    New here: build things, learning

    See on Steam: Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 (opens in a new tab)

  6. Cargo Simulator

    • Life and farm
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: run a simulation
    • Keeps: live a daily life

    New here: not in its tags yet

    See on Steam: Cargo Simulator (opens in a new tab)

  7. Car Detailing Simulator

    • Simulation
    • Solo
    • Keeps: drive realistic cars
    • Keeps: run a simulation

    New here: race, experimental ideas

    See on Steam: Car Detailing Simulator (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Car For Sale Simulator 2023Car Service TogetherAuto Sale LifeCar Dealer SimulatorUsed Cars SimulatorCar Mechanic Simulator 2014Car Mechanic Simulator 2015Car Detailing Simulator

AI wrote the “Why you’d like it” lines, and a second AI pass checked them against each game’s store page. They can be wrong, so check the store page before you buy.

How this list was made

1,465 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

What gets in

A game is what you do in it, so a pick has to share what players say you do most. If fewer than ten games earn a place, the list stays short.

Games from the same series start hidden, and the next best fits take their places. Choose Yes to show them in their places on the list.

Lists use the tags Steam players vote on, plus each game’s Steam store page.

Less played means far fewer Steam reviews than the game you finished. Mixed reviews means 60 to 69% of its Steam reviews are positive.

What only changes the order

A shared setting, look or popularity can move a game up or down, but it can’t put a game on the list by itself. Being set in space, for example, isn’t enough: a pick has to keep something you do.

What isn’t known

No players have tested this. Newer and smaller games have less data.

Privacy

To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.

What’s recorded

Searches

The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.

Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.

The random ID

Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.

The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.

From your connection

The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.

Who else sees a visit

Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.

Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.

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AI-written lines

The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.

How long it’s kept

Up to 13 months.

Turn counting off

Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.

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