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Carnaval Simulator

Carnaval Simulator

Build & design your own parades! Create light shows, setup animatronics, use special effects, play music, and more to captivate audiences in both singleplayer & multiplayer. Inspired by real-world celebrations like Mardi Gras & Carnival of Brazil 🎊

Released Feb 22, 2025 Developer JBA Software Development Platforms Windows StrategyIndieManagementCasualSandbox
View on Steam ↗ $10.99 (US · as of 2026-05-18)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

93.7%positive63 reviews
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“It is early acces, so there are bugs, but they are not game breaking. Amount of objects you can use is still quite low, but you get almost daily updates that add a few. And you can give your input on the discord which objects will be added in the future. But besides the little…”

— a player, Steam review · 201 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Ik heb een probleem met dit spel de dag dat het uitkwam het ik het gelijk gekocht en toen werkten het allemaal super goed maar nu sinds kort ongeveer een maandje denk ik doet het spel het niet meer elke keer als ik het wil spelen moet ik op nieuw beginnen vroeger was ik de max…”

— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Do you want to have a game where you can actually build parade floats and see the parades? When yes, this is the game! Just been released today and I have to say... ...it's really cool!”

— a player, Steam review · 71 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

11achievements
47.9%median completion
0.6%rarest: Parade Tycoon
95.7% of players 84.6% of players 54.6% of players 48.7% of players 48.2% of players 47.9% of players 19.3% of players 13.4% of players 11.2% of players 5.2% of players 0.6% of players 95.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
95.7%Parade Pioneer — From small beginnings come great things
84.6%Over 9000! — Power up your float
54.6%PARADE GET! — Win your first parade
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%Parade Tycoon — Complete all scenario levels
5.2%Parade Visitor — Watch 100 parades in total
11.2%Master of Carnival — Build 1000 props

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 14, 2026
Flower Parade Update 2.6.0

Carnaval Simulator – Update 2.6.0 A Fresh Start for New Players Update 2.6.0 focuses heavily on improving the new player experience. The tutorial has been completely revamped, and Career Mode has been

Apr 27, 2026
Quality of Life Update 2.4.1

Quality of Life update 2.4.1 We’ve rolled out a range of optimizations, fixes, and UI improvements in this update. See the full change log below. Added: 1 new object: church bell Advanced transformer

Apr 04, 2026
Easter Update 2.3.0 & 2.3.1

An easter update bringing some much-needed improvements and a bunch of new content! We’re already working on the next major update , so this release serves as a smaller update in between. Hope you enj

Mar 27, 2026
2.2.0 Mid-Lent Update

Brand new update. Enjoy guys! We added a bunch of new props and made some important tweaks to enhance your gameplay experience ːsteamhappyː Added: >3 new theme filters: Beach, Nature, and Science >Win

Feb 22, 2026
Carnaval Sim Event 2026 - Winners announced

Welcome to our Carnaval Sim Event 2026 community showcase! 🎭 What an incredible edition this year. From colorful carts to clever float concepts, our community once again proved how much talent this co

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsStrategy · Indie · Management · Casual · Sandbox · Building · Automobile Sim · Resource Management · Simulation · Design & Illustration · First-Person · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Workshop · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Portugal
Achievements11
Official sitehttps://carnavalsim.nl/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64bit Processor: Intel i5-2300/AMD FX-4300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GTX 630/AMD Radeon 7850 Storage: 10 GB available space