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Underground Garage
Developer BeardedBrothers.games
Welcome to the world of high-stakes tuning and street racing! Welcome to Underground Garage! It's your playground where you can unleash your creativity and mechanical prowess. Fix cars, tune them up, and hit the road. From the Steam store page
198 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
45
Mixed
84 positive · 101 negative
95% range 38–53%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 84 | 101 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
204 of 356 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
45% recommend · 83 yes, 103 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 186 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (464 of 744 positive).
Many reviewers complain about poor driving physics and handling. [1][2][3] Some players note the game has potential but needs more updates and fixes. [4][5][6]
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- [7]
Not a bad game. The graphics are well done. The cars sound good. Building the cars is fun, and not hard to grasp. The freedom also given while building the cars is really good. Do you want to take that old muscle car then convert it from drum brakes to disk. Go right ahead. Do you want to shove any engine into any car. You can do that too. Want some NOS / Neon lights / visually different body parts. They have that …
- [8]
Overall this game has a really solid base. It's like a cross between Need for Speed and Car Mechanic Simulator. The game gives you a lot of freedom to build whatever you like, and the customisation/building is really quite solid. A few more cars and engine types will be nice, something I'm sure they'll probably add in future. On the negative side, the car handling physics are a bit off. They're not THAT bad, but …
- [15]
I'm writing this review with every hope of being able to come back and edit it to a "Yes" at a later date, when hopefully some of the issues I've experienced are fixed. I love the concept of this game. It is a marriage of systems between Car Mechanic Simulator and Need for Speed. Aside from an ancient playtest version I couldn't quite run at the time, this was my first time playing and experiencing the game (1.0 …
- [2]
At first it seems fun but the entire premise of street racing to earn money is so pointless when the driving mechanics are the MOST BASIC I have ever experienced. The driving reminds me of early 2000's garys mod. It is abysmal. Every single item placed in the world has 0 crash physics meaning if you hit a standard orange barricade it does not explode it just flies away in one whole piece. This game honestly seems …
- [11]
Glitchy Mess!!! Soft locked before 1.0 and soft locked still during full release Just Buy "Car Mechanic Sim 2021" thank me later!! This is broken spaghetti code and Buggy UI garbage "as a fellow Game Dev" The faster faster faster quest doesn't work and now i don't have to just deal with draining non existent coolant in the radiator that is empty i cant remove it either and i don't see a drain tool at this point of …
Summarised from 34 of the 202 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Underground Garage sits at 45% positive across 185 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 198 · most liked firstI'm writing this review with every hope of being able to come back and edit it to a "Yes" at a later date, when hopefully some of the issues I've experienced are fixed. I love the concept of this game. It is a marriage of systems between Car Mechanic Simulator and Need for Speed. Aside from an ancient playtest version I couldn't quite run at the time, this was my first time playing and experiencing the game (1.0 release week), so going in, I really didn't expect to be doing more wrenching…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i have no idea how this game has any positive reviews. no toggle sprint which was very annoying. every 5 seconds my language kept changing to german even though it was set to english. camera control when in mechanic mode was awful, took me 5 minutes to see the part i was looking for because the car was too high and off the screen. when driving my tyres just constantly screech for absolutely no reason. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me be clear: The concept of this game is super cool, but it falls very heavily on its face during the execution. Firstly, and this is just a question to the devs; do you guys actually play-test any of your builds before you push your updates? I ask this because every time the game receives an update there are various game breaking bugs that could EASILY be found if there were actual play-tests of the new build. Secondly, this game has obviously relied very heavily on AI and would not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yet another game destroyed by Astragon. Broken promises across the board. Scrapped ideas and features, just because Astragon took over. Stop funding these a-holes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first it seems fun but the entire premise of street racing to earn money is so pointless when the driving mechanics are the MOST BASIC I have ever experienced. The driving reminds me of early 2000's garys mod. It is abysmal. Every single item placed in the world has 0 crash physics meaning if you hit a standard orange barricade it does not explode it just flies away in one whole piece. This game honestly seems like a scam because they just released 1.0 but this game feels SO unfinished.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got to the the job that required a new crank and pistons, i.e. bottom end work. First i was required to remove the transmission. Why? probably just for the extra three hours "R n' I" (remove and install) labor, idk. But soon after i discovered that the con rods couldn't be disconnected from the main shaft from underneath the car, reality hit me, "this just turn into a complete tear down." So i packed my tools left. We should not have to pull transmission, intake, exhaust and heads in order to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought the game a very long time ago as it looked promissing. However, it's really not worth it. There's barely any game here and all the features are half baked at best. It's sad, because it had potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad game. The graphics are well done. The cars sound good. Building the cars is fun, and not hard to grasp. The freedom also given while building the cars is really good. Do you want to take that old muscle car then convert it from drum brakes to disk. Go right ahead. Do you want to shove any engine into any car. You can do that too. Want some NOS / Neon lights / visually different body parts. They have that too. Now one thing other players have been talking about is the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →for starters, even though full release is in 10 days, its glitchy as hell, story line sucks. you have to pay to repair parts. wheels glitch out into the fender wells, on my second mission, i had the car come off the rack and start flipping violently about. like i really want to like this game but i dont think its ready by any means. could definetly use some more refinement. and a sandbox mode
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know it is early access but by the 3rd mission you can already tell where the game is going. The storyline is 30 mins long but they extend it by making you do the same missions over and over again to progress 1 part of the main mission and is back to the same mission 20x times over and over again, I played it for just a little over 7 hrs in 1 run and uninstalled it right away. The driving physics/mechanics are horrible, try to avoid driving at all cost in this game. Final rating is 2/10 for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →either get it on discount or wait for a few more updates because its still pretty buggy but it is playable now. you just cant differ from the story to fast or youll find yourself locked with no money to buy or fix parts. theres a few "obvious" things it needs still imo like the ability to make money when you have NONE. when you have a customers car youre working on sometimes when you quit and replay the game it duplicates the car with no way to remove it properly. sometimes you hit a very small…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will chime in on the bad reviews as well I played this for a bit during early access and it certainly had potential, didnt care for the racing side of it but whatever. Saw the game was "fully" released a while back so had another go with it and its no different. Pros: I like that you can unscrew all the screws very quickly without having to click each one Cons: everything else I thought performance was quite good until i had to do a mandatory race right at the beginning to progress the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →feeling scammed to be honest the only reason i bought this game is because when they were first advertising it they said there would be multiplayer....... theyre now gearing up for full release and show no sign of multiplayer being implemented if multiplayer is added ill gladly change my review to a positive one but for now im very dissatisfied with my purchase and wish i had never even bothered
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's only one big problem with the game, and that is driving physics cars feel extremely floaty, similar to NFS Heat they accelerate quite fast 0-100 but then acceleration drops off somewhere, breaking is also quite too hard. Breaking reduces turning angle. But the customization are good despite having only like 6 cars and 4 engines. The meh: optimizations - I can run other Unreal games quite fine, but here I can see traffic light being loaded in front of me, causing me to hit them. and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Glitchy Mess!!! Soft locked before 1.0 and soft locked still during full release Just Buy "Car Mechanic Sim 2021" thank me later!! This is broken spaghetti code and Buggy UI garbage "as a fellow Game Dev" The faster faster faster quest doesn't work and now i don't have to just deal with draining non existent coolant in the radiator that is empty i cant remove it either…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →race part not good, fix part good. they seem to be fixing some of the bugs so i guess its OK until a bug stops progression again. but overall gota change this to positive as the developer seems to be actively fixing the issues even if they cant get to them all at one time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS!!! I only paid like $2 for it and I overpaid! The handling of the cars is atrocious! The cars dip a lot when turning, the steering seems delayed and sluggish, the mechanics part have been seen before and the performance is sometimes very bad. I started a race against 4 opponents and my fps dipped to 49, according to the Steam overlay, but the game was clearly rendering around 1-2. I tried using the Direct 11 version, that "only" dipped to 60 fps, but that was also clearly about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Version 1.0 Review This game is now fully trash. Loaded my save, continued working on my car and fixed it all. Now it wants fuel and there is no in game help or guide to tell me how to get this task done. I have not had this issue prior to 1.0. AVOID THIS GAME!!! Prior to 1.0 Review Game was fun but so many issues including cars spawning in the car park which aren't mine but I can drive them but can not sell them. They are taking up space. Plus I seem to have broken the story, it is stuck on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game seems buggy and user unfriendly. I couldn't figure out how to "assemble the starter". I assume the game meant "install the starter". I did figure out how to "disassemble the starter" which actually meant "remove the starter". In a game like this it seems like installing parts should be very easy. Yet it's not. I raised the car on the lift and stood under the engine compartment and went back into "Mechanic" mode and the lift automatically descended and then I was stuck in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had high hopes for this game but it belongs back in early access! When racing there are random audio clips that appear from random sides. It sounds like a freight train / diesel pickup cross. When you put a car on a lift you often cant look up at it to work on it essentially ending the game (possibly due to engine mode?). Lots of little bugs in the game. One example was the car disappeared off the lift so there is no car to work on but the quest is enter mechanic mode and work on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BeardedBrothers.games, Ya'll had THE car mechanic/street racing simulator idea. If you can make a redemption arc like many other games have done ya'll could have a real winner here. The idea and game mechanics are solid. The story needs work but is also serviceable. With much polish and many improvements and some refinement this could rival much bigger games! Don't let the bad business decisions of other and the negative reviews stop you from your arc. Make the game what it deserves to be.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →QUICK SUMMARYUnderground Garage has a strong garage vibe and great-looking car models, but the driving feel and controller support (deadzone options) seriously drag it down in my first look. Brilliant concept. Rough execution where it matters most. WATCH GAMEPLAY & HONEST REVIEW HERE: Sim UK Reviews: https://youtu.be/i4-RZwr2vmM Sim UK The Sim Shack: https://youtu.be/ATAyTZxe1Ms DEVELOPERS CLAIM vs THE TRUTH🏗 DEVELOPERS CLAIM🎯 THE TRUTH — DOES IT MATCH THE CLAIM?The game presents itself as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Manged to softlock the game after the first few quests just by following the questline.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont know why the steam not have neutral vote The game has so many potential and is so clever , First time in my life on game i see see through hood in cars. the game has garage has mechanic work and has also races, has handling accelaration system, but has still has bugs, 3 minutes on game and press to see the key mapping options and when i close the menu the menu stay there but you can drive the car from behind, the handbrake is like a bad brake exeption when build drift car. at demo was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls feel terrible, car sounds terrrible
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't even bother.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well... what a s**tshow and buggy mess this thing is. It wants to be many things, but in reality is none of them. Racing - physics were developed by a 3-year-old. Cars don't turn. There is a handbrake, but it does not work, and devs forgot to implement brakes. No way to change the camera, stuck with a super low and close chase camera, to a point where the driving is unplayable. Hit a curb, well, good luck, now you're flying to the moon. Mechanic sim - there are a lot of parts, but no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have been let down with this game i fallowed this game for so long ever sense i played the first playtest and i was so exited for something new and different but they have not updated the game in a while the game play just was not as good as i was hoping i honestly wish i could refund the game i do not recommend it in the state it is in and the feeling the developers have just abandoned the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i like the Tuna here... lots of Detail in Car Repairs, Tuning Parts, good for Car Enthusiasts and everyone into Cars etc. Good Ideas in Gameplay and Mechanics, a few things need slight improvements and refinement, overall good Game if not sure, try the Demo, its worth it ;-)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We play a game when we’re listen to Little Steven’s Underground Garage: which decade is this garage rock revival song from? And wow, I just don’t like the audio quality of anything after 1990 and you can tell. It’s a shame.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Underground Garage video is done, despite the nightmare of both the game and the editing issues I had. We got it done. youtu.be/GO9AB0MndZY
negative · AI labelView post →the driving physics need a massive over haul, the building the cars side is great. driving is terrible. and the story seems rushed you still cold turn this into something crazy good but not quite there yet, maybe a merger between underground garage and Japanese drift master would set this off.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mechanical aspect of the game are good. The driving is absolute crap.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Certainly not recommended at full price (or modest discount), but I got it and Biker Garage for about 12 Euro (less than the discounted price for just Underground Garage, at about 15 Euro) and I'd say the game is worth getting for that low. Though, if bugs were fixed and some QOL features added, it could actually be a pretty good game. Considering what most other Car Jank Simulators look (and feel) like, this one looks like there was a *lot* more time and effort put into it to get it to this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the current form, this game is not worth buying. I mean the settings don't even have a brightness slider but feature DLSS and Frame gen for whatever reason. This alone tells me they have their priorities put toward the wrong areas, if you don't have the basics down then don't try to add pointless features. Fundamentally flawed game that would be easier to completely remake from the ground up then to try fixing anything. Driving feels like some arcade mobile game from 2012 but the cars…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game to play to pass the time with. I would like to take this time say there is a couple of things I hope they fix but over all a great game. 1) needs a jobs help tab for each and every job and not just a over all help tab for jobs. 2) Needs a place to store parts so you don't have to carry them around in your inventory. Yes it has some things that could be improved but what game don't ? Hope you all enjoy this game as much as I do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The mechanic side is awesome and the driving has potential however the crash physics make racing almost impossible. One small bump, including from your opponents the car either flips or slides out of control.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love the game don't get me wrong its a perfect mix of mechanic simulator and NFS and its a game I longed for. It gets frustrating at times especially the tuning jobs where you have to reach 378 hp but the car doesn't have turbo support and so like me you upgrade the whole engine into a tier 2 engine and even lighten it and it still doesn't meet the games requirements. Like I said fun game, definitely needs some work. I'm looking forward to more updates and full release.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love it so far just what i was looking for in a build and race game. My ultimate game would be able to modify cylinder size and pistons to see how much we could get out of a head block. that would be awesome. so far 8/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall this game has a really solid base. It's like a cross between Need for Speed and Car Mechanic Simulator. The game gives you a lot of freedom to build whatever you like, and the customisation/building is really quite solid. A few more cars and engine types will be nice, something I'm sure they'll probably add in future. On the negative side, the car handling physics are a bit off. They're not THAT bad, but cars suffer a tendency to spin whenever you turn at high speed which takes some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could be a tom of fun. But the bugs are making it unplayable. When assembling an engine for instance the game may have you install parts before other parts behind that have been installed. Even though you know it's not right you cannot bypass the ghost outline of the part it wants you to install. I can get past the janky driving mechanics but no past the bugs that stop you from progressing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keybind options not only don't work, changing the button for the gas pedal (my assumption for what "Ride Forward" means) breaks the driving portion entirely.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The quest makes you grind on one of the main quests for a long time, just for the story line to continue for a little bit before ending abruptly. So many bugs in this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like Underground Garage, and I’m writing this with the hope that I’ll be able to change it to a recommended review later. The concept is strong, but the current 1.0 release feels too rough and inconsistent to confidently recommend (and also doesn't feel like a 1.0 whatsoever) At its best, this game feels like Car Mechanic Simulator meets NFS, and that’s where it shines. The garage and wrenching systems will feel very familiar to Car Mechanic Sim players, and in some ways…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the demo awhile back, it was good. I've now played the full release. It's not good. ---- The issue isn't the game, but the amount of bugs i've experienced in the first (0.3hrs) of gametime... It has me drive to the airport to test the car. I go there. I race. I win. It wants me to race again. I do so. I win again. It wants me to do it again? Maybe it's the mode I picked was wrong. I wouldn't know, it didn't tell me what mode it wanted. So, maybe i'll try it again in the future. For…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is the biggest scam. the tutorial and the instruction is not clear. I spend 10 minutes without knowing what to do. The guide said I should check on the car's starter, however how do I suppose to know how to get in there to the starter, what's the step-by-step? This game is ♥♥♥♥
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its not co op and this game has been released on 8th november 2024 and ive beem waiting for it to become co op and devs didnt put it in over a year
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a lot of potential. A nice reminder of some strong titles from years ago, but in a new form
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The racing is awful but the wrenching is fun. Graphics are super not great.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game havnt played with new update installed yet but will post thoughts later
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game have many issues,not recommended. Many bugs etc.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My fish is very proud of me for completing this game. P.S. max 2 hours gameplay stretched around 8 hours
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underground Garage has interesting combination of fixing , tuning and racing cars. Controls on mechanic side initially felt bit weird, but I adjusted soon. Screwing parts is faster than in some mechanic games. Mostly you just fix customer cars to get money to run garage. There are do diagnostics tools, just quick diagnostic button. That partially makes it too easy. Most parts can be repaired in repair table. There are plenty of nice looking cars and engines. Game is open world, even…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very buggy man, idk how many engines and cars ive lost to bugs now...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would be a great Mobile game... PC tho... NO One of those mobile games that should probably stay a mobile game... Sounds are very hard to put up with i dont know why the tire wash sound is so loud and obnoxious but it ruins a fair bit of the vibe of the game. Would recomend getting it on a sale or trying the free demo before buying
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underground Garage BeardedBrothers .games. Steam disclosure -y
neutral · AI labelView post →got it during early access. ok-ish game, i like the 'fast and the furious car mechanic simulator' approach. unfortunately false promises were made for release version. a lot of features did not make it into the game. beside of the stripped features, the actual 1.0 features do not comply with the dev blog post from 15.1.26. maybe its getting abandoned, as a discord comment from the devs hints to it ...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun and offers something that other similar titles don't do as well. Actual racing its a bit basic but better than car mechanic simulator where we can only drag race. it dose have some bugs like car spawning that you cant sell of fully break down. beyond that I haven't personally had any other bugs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not Mechanic Simulator and that's a very very good thing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh nice concept. Game does not feel good though.
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