6 Simulation games like CarX Street that you should try

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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

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We filtered the 50 games similar to CarX Street down to the 6 that fit the “Simulation” category. Need for Speed™ Payback, Crash Time 2 and Trailmakers top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to CarX Street.

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The best simulation games like CarX Street

6 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to CarX Street. Each one has been evaluated across 15 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Need for Speed™ PaybackClosest overall match

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloPvPMeleeNarrativeOpen WorldSandbox WorldExplorationThird PersonFirst Person

Steam👍 85%· 31KRAWG👍 43%· 741MC61OC60· 110

Year 2017Dev Ghost Games · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, sports simulation and sandbox freedom

≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, co op and online features, while skipping visual 3d

Need for Speed Payback is an action-driving racing game and the twenty-third part of the NFS franchise. ###Gameplay Despite the trend made by NFS' before Payback features an offline mode. The game is set in a fictional city named Fortune Valley.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloMeleeNarrativeSandbox WorldOpen WorldExploration3D

Steam👍 58%· 2.5KRAWG👍 19%· 107

Year 2008Dev RTL interactive · Meridian4Playtime ~1hOn PC

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, sandbox freedom and deep simulation

≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling and offline, while skipping sports simulation

Crash Time 2 is a mission-based open-world driving game developed by Synetic. You are one of the officers of a fictional Cobra 11 police unit. The players are free to explore the open world or just complete the missions.

Where it drifts furthest from CarX Street: game mode.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for CarX Street.

It predates CarX Street by 16 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMultiplayerMeleeSandbox WorldOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 92%· 36KRAWG👍 59%· 70OC69· 5

Year 2020Dev FlashbulbPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: deep simulation, racing gameplay and sandbox freedom

≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, survival mechanics and setting space, while skipping sports simulation

Welcome to the Ultimate Expedition! Journey over grueling mountains, hazardous swamps, and bone-dry deserts on a distant world far from civilization - it is just you, your fellow adventurers and the amazing, jet-powered hover-buggy you built yourself.

Where it drifts furthest from CarX Street: game mode.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloMeleeOpen WorldExplorationThird PersonFirst Person

Steam👍 69%· 28KRAWG👍 50%· 824MC66OC65· 78

Year 2015Dev Ghost Games · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with racing gameplay, deep simulation and open world exploration

≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, co op and visual topdown, while skipping sports simulation

Become the ultimate icon of today’s urban car culture in Need for Speed™, featuring Five Ways to Play and a huge open world to race and explore from dusk ‘till dawn. * FIVE WAYS TO PLAY – Earn reputation and master all Five Ways to Play - Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw - to win your own way.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for CarX Street.

It predates CarX Street by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

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#5Bully: Scholarship Edition

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMeleeNarrativeOpen WorldSandbox WorldExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 84%· 41KRAWG👍 86%· 765MC72IGDB80· 3

Year 2008Dev Rockstar New England · Rockstar GamesPlaytime ~2hOn PC · Xbox · Nintendo

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing sandbox freedom, deep simulation and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping racing gameplay

Set in Bullworth Academy, a fictional British private school, this game tells about school bullying and the troublesome period of growing to adolescence. You assume the role of Jimmy Hopkins, a 15-year-old boy and a “problem child”, who was already kicked out of many schools for his misbehavior.

Where it drifts furthest from CarX Street: game mode and visuals.

It predates CarX Street by 16 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

MultiplayerSoloMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 85%· 652

Year 2009Dev Synetic · Kalypso MediaPlaytime ~1hOn PC

✓ Same family of open-world action games: racing gameplay, deep simulation and open world exploration

≠ Its own twist: offline, while skipping sports simulation

Like its predecessors, Crash Time 3, the new installment of the well-known action racing game series, offers varied gameplay in top quality. The German game forge Synetic has once more taken the graphics engine a significant step further.

It predates CarX Street by 15 years, with what that implies technically.

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