Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 β build your own auto workshop from scratch
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 is a car-mechanic sim by Red Dot Games, published by PlayWay, released on August 11, 2021. It takes the repair-shop idea and pushes it into obsessive detail: you don't just "fix a car with a button" β you strip it into hundreds of parts, diagnose the fault, source the right components, reassemble and test it on a rig. Here you're buying a Steam Gift with the full base game, sent straight to your account via a Steam bot.
What you actually do
Your mechanic career starts in a tiny garage and grows into a real workshop with lifts, test benches and a paint booth. Customers bring jobs β a knock in the engine, a jerky gearbox β and your job is to find the real cause instead of swapping everything blindly.
- Full teardown. Engines come apart down to pistons and valves, bodies down to individual panels; every part can be inspected, washed and replaced.
- Diagnostics. A test track, dyno bench and path test help you catch elusive faults in suspension, brakes and the engine.
- Auctions and barn finds. Buy wrecked cars for pennies, restore them and flip them for profit β a hook all on its own.
- Paint and tuning. Your own paint shop, rims, body kits and component upgrades to match each build.
What's in this purchase
You get the full base game of Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 for Steam. That's enough to play the whole career and work on dozens of models and projects. The game has a large set of separate real-brand DLCs β Nissan, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Jaguar, Land Rover and more β but those are standalone add-ons bought separately on Steam on top of the base version. The base game doesn't need them to run.
How the gift delivery works
Delivery goes through Steam Gift. You provide a friend invite link and your Steam account region, and our bot adds itself, sends the gift, then removes itself from your friends after delivery β no need to accept the request manually. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes. Two conditions Steam requires: your account region must match the gift region, and Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 must not already be in that account's library. Steam Guard is not required, and adding friends must be allowed in your profile settings.
Who it's for
If you enjoy the meditative loop of "take apart β understand β reassemble," the buy-low-restore-sell-high economy and calm, timer-free gameplay, this game eats tens of hours easily. If you like these sims, check out the newer Car Mechanic Simulator 2026, and among kindred PlayWay simulators take a look at House Flipper and Gas Station Simulator.
Quick answers
The gift lands in your library like any purchased game β it's yours for good. If the bot couldn't add you, it's almost always closed friend requests in your profile or an expired invite link; refresh the link and check your privacy settings. On Steam Deck the game runs via Proton; there's no separate native Linux build.
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