Car Service Together is a co-op car service repair shop simulator where players aim to be the best car shop in town! Read our review of its early-access build to see what it did well, what it didn't do well, and if it's worth buying.
Everything We Know About Car Service Together
Car Service Together Plot
As a co-op simulation game, there’s not much in the way of story aside from running a car service center from the bottom up in a town that hasn’t seen a car service center in years. There’s no debt to be collected, nor is there a gun pointed to the player characters’ head forcing them to work for cash—just a group of friends (or a solo player) with the ambition of managing and running the ultimate car service in town.
Car Service Together Gameplay
Car Service Together’s gameplay loop cycles around managing the business and financial aspects as well as the actual car service simulation. Players will make deals with clients and repair, maintain, modify, or even paint and wash their cars to their requirements before getting picked up.
Car Service Together Release Date
Released on February 4, 2026, Car Service Together is now available to be purchased in Early Access on Steam for $19.99. It is projected to stay in Early Access for the next six months, taking in player feedback for further polishing.
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Car Service Together Review [Early Access]
Gearing Up For Greatness
Right off the bat, simulation games are one of my absolute favorite genres, especially the ones that let you get into the feel of things and look through the game through the player character’s lens, such as Powerwash Simulator 2, Fast Food Simulator, Supermarket Together, to name a few. There’s just something about playing games that mimic the experience of a supposedly mundane task with the comfort of your own computer. No sweat, no tears, no wounds, just the rhythmic clicking and some needed brainpower when needed.
With that said, while Car Service Together is a game that is usually out of my league, I found myself enjoying my time as a car service technician a lot more than I initially thought. From learning the ropes and literal insides of the car hood to bopping to the radio music and the squeak of the bolts and screws, Car Service Together is an enjoyable experience, even at Early Access.
The Newest (And Only) Car Service Shop In Town
Car Service Together puts you and up to three other friends as car service technicians in an unnamed town, one that has been "waiting for a real repair shop for years". Whether they’ve never had a car service shop at all or the last one was a scammy old fart, they don’t disclose.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t change the fact that your goal here is to be the ultimate car repair-modification hub around for miles. It’s a pretty basic and straightforward premise, just enough to get you motivated as you progress through the different types of clients and cars to work on.
Detailed Car Repair Simulation
The core gameplay has you and your friends work on cars, repairing and modifying them to the customer’s specifications. If you’re familiar with simulation games in general, then there’s not much of a difference—except that you’re working on cars.
It has very basic controls—interact with parts using a click of a mouse and a few keyboard key presses to change modes or to move the camera around for easy viewing. You have a handy-dandy tablet to keep track of all the car jobs you’ve accepted, and each car job page also lists what you’d need to accomplish, along with a progress bar from 0% to 100% on each.
Replacement parts and car fluids like antifreeze and motor oil can be purchased through the computer, which are then delivered after a certain time (depending on weight and number of items) and immediately deposited into your inventory for quick usage. Sometimes, you’d need special machines like the Tire Machine to cater to tire and rim changes.
You can interact with almost every single part of the car, except, of course, for the ones that are scheduled to arrive in an upcoming update. Nevertheless, even without them in the game, the content it currently has is more than enough for hours and hours of car-repairing fun. Changing out batteries, springs, calipers, or brake pads, or filling the car with brake fluid and windshield wiper fluid—it’s mundane, it’s repetitive, but the satisfaction is always there when you see the 100% progress bar in your tablet for that particular task. That’s what pretty much fueled me to keep going on my daily work as a (digital) car repair technician.
In all honesty, I know very little about cars, but I’m pretty confident about my simulation game skills (if that even is a skill)—they’re all basically just giant puzzles just waiting to be solved, with each puzzle changing a bit (or a lot) day by day. Car Service Together is a great example of it, and with the added bonus of learning more about car parts along the way.
Once repairs and modifications are finished, the car is driven to the delivery parking spot to be picked up by the customer, and you get your shiny, shiny coin for a job well done. Then, it’s back to the parking lot to accept another client, and rinse and repeat.
That’s basically the entire game in a nutshell. No frills, no extra unexpected events like a giant meteor destroying your fine establishment and forcing you to work from the bottom again—just fix, fix, and fix some more. If you’re a fan of the routine, grindy type of gameplay, then Car Service Together might just be right up your alley.
Barebones Tutorial, Just Going Straight Into The Fire
While on the topic of gameplay, the tutorial is way too bare. It does give you the bare necessities for running your shop, but the difficulty spike after the first day is pretty tough. After learning how to take orders, buy replacement parts online, drive the car, and deliver it to the customer, you’re on your own. There’s no filter on what kind of job orders clients will ask you for, and they will request things that can only be done with a proper machine…that you probably don’t have yet.
There were multiple times I had to take a loss because I didn’t realize you needed to build a separate Tire Machine on a free spot in the garage to work on wheels and rims separately, or how I completely didn’t know that paint jobs could only be unlocked after about 1000 reputation points—but these jobs were among the ones I could choose from. And you know how I found out about the Tire Machine and the painting garage? From separate research on the internet…after several minutes of clicking around the darn car and the garage for something that will help me with my predicament.
That aside, once you’re familiar with all the stuff you need to know and do, everything else is kind of a piece of cake. It’s just the initial frustration of blindly grasping at straws for something that could have had a small tutorial or even a vague, in-game book to refer to—not exactly spoonfeeding the information to you, but just something to point you in the right direction.
More Fun With Friends
It says Car Service Together, I know, but I couldn’t drag anyone into the car service abyss with me at the time of writing this, and it’s honestly a little saddening. Simply just by looking at the title itself, it says Car Service Together, not Car Service All In My Lonesome. It’s definitely much more enjoyable and rewarding when done with a buddy to haul wheels and batteries with.
You can definitely play the game solo, but it does become evident that it really is a game made for co-op, especially when orders start piling up and you can’t work on cars fast enough to make a steady profit.
Car Details Don’t Line Up
Of course, as an Early Access title, it’s a no brainer that there will be a bit of unpolished knicknacks here and there that have slipped in through the cracks…and one of them is the odd contradictions in certain details. There was an instance where the car details on the tablet didn’t align with what the car actually had. As I was ordering new parts off the computer, I quickly checked the car details and confirmed that the car was sporting 14” wheels (according to the tablet, anyway). So I ordered fitting calibers for it…only to realize that the car actually had 16” wheels and I just wasted time and money for an order I couldn’t complete immediately.
Unfortunately, this discrepancy happens way more than it should, so much so that you’ll begin to have trust issues with your own tablet. Of course, you can always just check the car yourself, but that would make the details panel pretty darn useless, and the more you expand your garage, the more cars you’ll have to deal with—it’s not efficient to check each and every one with a day in the game being only about seven to eight minutes or so.
Strange Commitment to Keyboard Controls
It’s a car repair shop simulator—you’re constantly clicking and holding the mouse button, moving your cursor around to check out the different parts of the car. Naturally, everything should be clickable, right? Well, in this game, not exactly. There’s this awkward need to suddenly shift to the keyboard when going through categories in your own inventory or the car parts shop.
What’s strange is, you need to click on the items anyway to either select them or add them to your cart. So it’s just baffling that you can’t easily click through the categories of the menus and have to tediously go through them one by one with the A or D key. Having both the option to click with the mouse and to use the keyboard would be much better than being forced to shift awkwardly into keyboard mode. I can’t count how many times my instinct just went and clicked on the categories to no avail.
Only One Song Playing On The Radio
It’s a minor thing that doesn’t affect overall gameplay, but it’s an included feature in the game nonetheless. There’s a radio in the shop that you can turn on for some tunes to play while you’re working your butt off on car repairs…er, not tunes. Tune, as in singular. There’s only one song that loops endlessly, and while it’s not a bad song, there could have been some variety. And if it was only to feature one song, why put in there in the first place?
Again, it’s easily remedied by playing your own music player on the side, but it would be waste of assets to have it there if not used. Hopefully, there will be an added update with more songs, or even the option to add your own files to the game.
Overall Conclusion
Car Service Together is a co-op car repair shop simulator title that has its foundations down pat. Detailed car servicing, a rather wide variety of jobs to do, and a solid execution with little to no visual or control lapses. It’s still got its bugs here and there, and it would benefit from a few more added QoL features, but it’s not a bad game in its current state.
There seems to be a lot going for it, with soon-to-be-added content already labelled inside the game, adding that bit of excitement for what’s to come. I’ll keep Car Service Together on my radar for just a bit longer—and maybe rope in some friends along the way to actually fulfill the ultimate car service hub dream.
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Car Service Together Product Information
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| Title | Car Service Together |
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| Release Date | February 4, 2026 (Early Access) |
| Developer | V12 Studio |
| Publisher | V12 Studio |
| Supported Platforms | Steam |
| Genre | Indie, Simulation |
| Number of Players | 1-4 |
| ESRB Rating | RP |
| Official Website | Car Service Together Official Website |
