Cheap Car Repair is now available on Steam – welcome to the wild reality of running a car garage in a small town in 1990s Poland

22 May 2026

Polish countryside, second-hand cars held together with hope, and mechanics who could fix almost anything with whatever parts happened to be available. Cheap Car Repair takes players back to 1990s Poland – a country going through the chaotic transition from communism to capitalism, where creativity and resourcefulness put the „free” in „free market”. The game is now available on Steam!

Set in the heart of a gritty post-communist countryside, the game puts players in charge of a small garage struggling to survive in difficult times. Money is tight, customers expect miracles for next to nothing, and every repair becomes a battle between honesty, creativity, and profit.

In this world, spare parts are always „somewhere nearby” – any piece of metal can be adjusted to fit, repairs should preferably be done immediately, and if the car leaves the workshop in one piece that usually counts as success. Cheap Car Repair is a humorous mechanic simulator inspired by the everyday absurdities of the early post-communist era – a time when improvisation wasn’t just useful, but necessary.

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Cheap Car Repair recreates the atmosphere of 1990s former communist block, where local car garages became unofficial community hubs and mechanics were forced to invent solutions to problems nobody really knew how to solve properly yet. Missing parts? Something else will fit. The customer doesn’t understand cars? Even better. Rust showing through the bodywork? Fresh paint might help – at least until the next rain.

The game offers players complete freedom, but every choice comes with consequences. You can run an honest workshop… or focus purely on making money. Some decisions may only hurt your wallet, while others could end with angry customers showing up outside your garage. You thought you were creative with their car? They’ll show you what real imagination does when people are mad.

Players will face a wide range of repair jobs – from quick oil changes to major engine work. Every task becomes a new story and another opportunity to test both mechanical skills and creative problem-solving.

Cheap Car Repair – Key Features:

🔧 Post-communist inspired setting – economic transformation and the struggle to keep a small business alive
🔧 Full freedom of choice – decide between honest work and fast profit
🔧 Multiple ways to repair cars – from proper fixes to questionable shortcuts
🔧 Variety of mechanic jobs – ranging from simple services to complex repairs
🔧 Vonsequence system – where unhappy customers may come back for revenge
🔧 Humor and satire – inspired by the absurd realities of the 1990s in Eastern Europe

Cheap Car Repair puts players in the role of a small entrepreneur trying to survive difficult times, where success depends not only on repair skills, but also on improvisation and street smarts.

Because the garage won’t keep itself running. And the workshop’s motto? „Maybe not the cheapest, but good enough”.

The press kit is available here.

Cheap Car Repair launches today on Steam. The game is developed by Simplicity Games and co-published by PlayWay.

About Simplicity Games:
We are an independent Polish game studio developing mobile and console games. The company was founded in Rzeszów in 2014 by two friends working on their first projects in an attic driven purely by passion for games.

Today, our team has grown to 26 people and continues to expand. We specialize in casual PC games covering a wide range of themes. Our titles include Majster Symulator, Mirek Handlarz Symulator, and Auto Fuszerka.

Patrycja Pietrowska

Junior PR Specialist at better. gaming agency