Car Guy Simulator

You start at the curb with a dead F100, a borrowed jack, and just enough money to make a bad call. By the end — with a little luck and a lot of overtime — you'll have a warehouse, a sponsor deck that funds itself, and a truck that finally makes Buck shut up at the gas station.
Every car you drag home came from somebody. A widow with a coffee can of keys. A kid in over his head in a rental driveway. And when you sell the thing you spent a season building, somebody shows up to take it — the collector who'll never let it see rain, or the guy driving it to the coast with his wife next month. This isn't a spreadsheet with wheels. It's a life you build one Saturday at a time.

Build the truck
- 100+ jobs across 16 real systems — engine, cooling, fuel, exhaust, transmission, brakes, suspension, steering, body, paint, chrome, electrical, and more
- Three tiers per system — Budget, Quality, Show Grade. Start with a radiator hose, end with an EFI conversion
- It has to actually run — get the engine, trans, brakes, and steering right or it won't even drive itself to the show
- DIY in your garage, or send it to Dale and pay for the convenience — your call, every job
- Earn your tools — you don't get to TIG-weld a body panel curbside. The first welder, the first hoist, the first real paint booth: each one changes what you're capable of
- Creature comforts — 20 lifestyle upgrades (cold A/C, a wood bed, a stereo, a tow package) that don't win trophies but win the crowd and add real money to resale

Run the season
- Cars & Coffee → Local → Regional → National — a full show ladder, plus drag nights, autocross, drift battles, and hill climbs that judge on the clock, not a clipboard
- Venues judge what they care about — power night rewards a different truck than a beauty show, so a clean engine on a rotted steering box doesn't win anything
- Earn followers and land 16 sponsors with payouts that actually move the needle
- Work the marketplace — flip parts and whole builds, negotiate buyer offers, take loans you'll regret, balance fuel against cash against pride
- A four-week pre-season to stack cash between seasons — side jobs, flips, and content before the calendar goes live
- Random scenes that force a call — shake Dale's hand or argue the bill; pocket the cash or cover a stranger's entry; drive it home or run it one more time

Built for one car guy and one truck
Single-player, start to finish. Saves locally in your browser. No login. No microtransactions. No interruptions. Just you, the truck, and the next paycheck.
Made by WINNXT Studios
| Updated | 12 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Publisher | WINNXT Studios |
| Rating | Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (6 total ratings) |
| Author | cjrm96 |
| Genre | Simulation, Role Playing |
| Tags | Casual, Comedy, Indie, Management, Pixel Art, Retro, Singleplayer, Story Rich |
| Average session | A few hours |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds, Text |
Development log
- The one where the radio talks back13 days ago
- Sim Expansion — Phase 2: four new sim systems (the "arcade → sim" work)19 days ago
- The stretch where the game got its soul20 days ago
- A Real Ending, a Better First Day, and a World That Talks Back24 days ago
- The Big Build — Fresh Art, Deeper Scene & a Results Glow-Up29 days ago
- Big Garage Cleanup — Bug Squash & Polish Update32 days ago
- Dev Log — Cinematic Cut Scenes & a Big Polish Pass33 days ago
- Dev Log: Buck Wants to Race, and the Game Got a Lot Smoother34 days ago






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Awesome small game, sunk about 3 hours into it. Felt much like a car type of Oregon trail. I loved that you could get many more cars after winning Legends. Awesome job!!
Thank you for playing!
I assume it's a bug that when you get to the end of the 1st season and it starts the 2nd season and beyond that the ability to go to car shows of any level just stops working. Because I'm like 5 seasons in and I still can't go to any car shows of any level after the 1st season and I just got to regional car shows as the end of the 1st season and refreshing the browser tab doesn't fix it.
Hey — thanks for the detailed report, this was a real bug and you nailed the description. What happened: at the end of your first season, the game got stuck in a half-started "heading to a show" state (most likely from clicking a show the same weekend you'd already used your Saturday), and it saved itself that way — which is why refreshing never helped and it followed you through five seasons. Every show button was silently hitting that stuck flag and giving up.
It's fixed in the latest build, and the good news for you specifically: you don't need to restart or touch anything. The update detects the stuck state in existing saves and clears it automatically — just reload the game on the new version and your shows will work again, with all five seasons of progress intact. Since you're sitting on a garage that's had five seasons of wrenching, you should be walking into Regionals loaded. Sorry for the lost show time, and seriously — reports this precise ("refreshing doesn't fix it" was the clue that cracked it) are gold. If anything else feels off, send it our way.
I'm glad I could help squash a bug and I'm surprised at how fast it was fixed. Also, you where very right about being loaded I drove away having won 1st place at the Regionals and Buck got dead last. I also got hit with 5 seasons worth of events when I loaded my save. But, somethings I forgot to mention in my last comment was during the whole I can't go to shows bug is that events, loans and part selling stopped working too, sorry for forgetting to add that too.
This was a huge help — thank you. That extra detail actually pinpointed the whole thing.
Turns out shows, events, loans, and part-selling all run through one shared "is anything blocking right now?" check behind the scenes. The show bug left a flag stuck on, and that single flag was freezing all four systems at the same time — which is exactly why they all went down together. The fix that got shows working again cleared the rest too, which lines up perfectly with your save catching up on five seasons of events the moment you loaded in. 😄
On top of that, I've now added a safeguard so the game automatically clears any leftover stuck states every time it loads — so this kind of freeze can't sneak back in, even in weird edge cases.
And ha — I did tell you that you were loaded. First at Regionals with Buck dead last is a great way to come back from a bug. 🏆
Seriously, thank you for the reports. Fast fixes are only possible because you took the time to describe what you were seeing so clearly. Owe you one.
Well, I'm glad I could help but, I think I found either another bug or an issue with my save file where I can't advance to next week, the button is grayed out and refreshing the browser tab doesn't fix it (just like last time just my luck lol). If you'd like I can send you my .json save file to see if it's actually a bug or I got unlucky and the save file broke.
P.s I started a new save after backing up my previous save and the advance to next week button works again seems like my save bit the dust. R.I.P My save file started yesterday and bit dust today. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRYOfVDPglDyIRFtAh0pGjI9KoBy20R0/view?usp=shari... here is the link to my save file encase a bug did cause the save to brake.
Looks nice!
Thank you! Many updates to come too...
Had this happen twice: I'm three weeks out from nationals, attend and do well at regionals, then suddenly this time period is over.
Hey! Really appreciate you flagging this, and sorry it bit you twice. You diagnosed it perfectly: the show calendar wasn't lined up with the late-summer Nationals fantasy we're trying to capture, so qualifying right before the season wrapped felt like getting the rug pulled.
Just pushed a fix that should make this click:
Thanks again for the detailed feedback, this kind of report is exactly what helps the sim feel right.
Fun, sunk a good hour into tinkering!
-Less round UIs? looking a little like a mobile react app at the moment.
Great feedback, thank you!
Hi there is a glitch where you try to pay the weekly trucks loan but it pays all the money you have instead
Thank you for the heads up, going to get this patched ASAP. How are you enjoying the rest of the Beta?
Update has been pushed! Thank you again for playing. If you enjoy the game don't forget to rate it :)
Very cool game, I like it!
Glad you enjoyed, many updates on the way!
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Thank you so much!
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