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Car Manufacturer Tycoon – Strategy Game Review
Car Manufacturer Tycoon is a Strategy/Simulation game from Luca Stosch, first launched in 24th February 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 226+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Car Manufacturer Tycoon Stand Out
Have you ever wanted to plan, configure, build and sell your own cars? Manage your own car company in Car Manufacturer Tycoon, join hundreds of thousands of players and become the most successful car manufacturer in the world!
CREATE YOUR CARS
You can create and configure your own cars, from agile compacts over powerful sedans and SUVs to rapid sportscars. Make the car yours by configuring every aspect of your car and creating your unique design!
SELL CARS
Assemble your cars in your company's factories and sell them on the market. But watch out – other players are competing for the customers with you!
EXPAND YOUR COMPANY
Expand your company all over the world, in 8 different regions with their own markets and customer preferences! Can you become the world's largest manufacturer?
BUY MATERIALS
Buy materials to use during the production process when the market prices are the lowest – plan ahead to make even more profit when selling your cars.
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Car Manufacturer Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th September 2020
Recent improvements include:
CMT 2.4 is here: New R&D Lab, updates design, new parts and lots more to discover! Update to 2.4 now to check out all new features!
Download & Availability
Car Manufacturer Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Car Manufacturer Tycoon on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
You can make cars and its a bit Challenging trying to figure out what parts to put and not put in and its super fun we love it.
Leveling grind aside, which honestly isnt that bad (leveled up within first 24 hours with not a ton of activity), this is a very fun and addicting game for people interested in cars in any ways. Only thing Id say is we wish that you could build race cars, but we get thats not really the purview of this.
This game is great fun. We LOVE it. Its just extremely hard to level up, Im about to be level 8, but its extremely hard to level up. It takes roughly 2-3 hours of gameplay to level up in the beginning of the game, which is some serious dedication for the beginning. Other than that, we love the game.
This game was a surprise when we first played it. The bad review are misleading. This game is actually really good. We really like the concept of this game. Good job to the workers and creator of this game.
The warehouse is too small. We fully upgraded it, and we understand that its an equalizer for difficulty but, at the very least, can you make it infinitely scalable at an exponential rate. Basically the extra space will be the same as last time but the price goes up.
A good strategy game, we enjoy it.
We love the game, its a fun tycoon that we could find ourselves playing a lot. But we hate it when our global rank gets impacted when people dont order cars.
So, Im giving this game 5 stars for a very specific reason. We almost didnt download it because it was 3.5. Im happy we did. It has room to grow. The biggest thing the developer NEEDS to do is read the reviews from players who broke it down in what they need to see and follow that advice. The tips and things theyve put in are brilliant and would make this game flourish in this niche group. More people also need to give their thoughts, and maybe reach out to assist if theyre good at this stuff. Because this game could be great.
The wait times arent long the creativity is high and its captivating our only critique is that you put more warehouses in so we can make 5000 cars at once and add in car company competition rather then against other players so the other car companies will release cars and you need to put our a car to rival it.
This has a great foundation in becoming a huge success. We have tried over 30 games and none have come close this level of tycoon. It's great a great base and desighns, but needs some structure build up. Those who really love the game have problems with certain things others just pay for. It's hard to reach levels the more you progress, an not in a good way. On of the major problems is the wait time. We understand research take some time, but development should not take soo long a it does. Production time seems reasonable and we see the reason behind it. We feel like the factories should not be unlocked through levels, but through money. We think that the headquarters should be more broader a well. Have a main headquarters in a certain country and then have other areas in other countries rather than regions or continents. This would allow for a whole lot more variety of sales ideas and sales income. When it comes to the vehicles, we love the different desighns, but there can always be more. We think more sport cars, hypercars, motorcycles, and different sized truck desighns should be added as well a other car parts that link with them. We think there should be a lot more engine customization- we can pick piston count from (3,4,6,8,10,12,18), piston alignment (Inline, V, W, H), and the fuel type (Diesel, Regular Unleaded, Premium). We feel the game would be more engaging if we could have more company customization and wish there were larger rewards for leveling up. Other than these things the games foundation is strong. We see a 5 star coming soon. (we see that the last update was 5 years ago. This is not a sight of player care. If you wish to keep people engage in the game then you will need to b more attentive a to what people like an enjoy. Just a heads up that would help this grow.) (The more we play, the more ideas come to our head. We really would wish that some progress would be made a we could see this game becoming a huge success. We think more options should be available for those who don't wish to waste money, but if you do then go for it. We feel like there is too much grinding in the game and that the wait time add up to a lot of time that doe not need to be waste in waiting but in action.).
We are over the regional expectations for the region we are releasing the car in and we price the car at what the estimated cost is and our peputation goes down, we are at the bottom of the leader board and we just dont understand what Im doing wrong. Also, add a comparing system and the motor creation dont give you any overall stats. Edit: we have figured it out. We have to price it under the recommended price per unit.
We enjoyed this game. The start is a bit confusing but good.
The game itself is amazing, the idea and gameplay and creativity is too notch and we love the game and will still play it. But the problem we have is the long loading times and how we cant have multiple car businesses or just play the game without it taking forever to do anything.
This is gonna be tips for people starting this game since the games fairly barebones on any assistance. 1) Save your RP. This currency is used to unlock slots in the research lab, 6,500/development slot. 2)Maximizing your XP. The best way Ive found is to release junk cars at minimal cost, cars that are recommended about 25-40k sale price. Release, end sale, rinse repeat. Every so often make a high end car and sell under recommended price point. Produce these cars with factory focused on production. 3) When Research Lab is unlocked, do not use the intense/ intense extended sessions. We tried 3 of the intense extended sessions, did not get any guaranteed special concepts. Wasted RP. Instead do Extended sessions. Will update as we go.
Love the game but will there be like a super/hyper car update.
Now the game idea is one of the best Ive seen in awhile it gets us excited to think this may be a game thats built upon and made into something better but we would say definitely try your chances on desktop, put this game on steam and see what you can get from it and how you can improve on it. But dear lord FIX THE WAIT TIMES. It takes way too many designs and cost way too much for too to level up and expand, but personally Id love to play this on desk top we can see it becoming a grind. Consider the idea and visualize the opportunities this game could give you dont give up on the project keep going.
We wasnt able to play past the first blueprint tutorial thing until we deleted the game got it back and then allowed notifications and once we did that it magically worked. Dont know if its because of that or because we waited a day to reinstall it.
Its been a year since yall updated this game, show us yall still here.
Dont get us wrong this is the best car manufacturer tycoon game we have ever played, we love the uniqueness of the game the way it looks like an high tech game with the slide instead of just clicks brilliant but the game still need a lot of work like let say the market you see demand or orders shouldnt be a one time thing Im sure people still other cars after their initial lunch so we think order should increase in the regions of sales by popularity of the car its self for example Im currently lunching our LEXICON (LEX 1800) and we keep making duplicates of this same blueprint in different colors the same car we think this should increase the cars population and also the brand rating should also affect it too as the brand goes higher in ratings it should get more popularity and with this they should be new orders for new cars and even old owns because not everyone can afford to buy the latest version of cars people still use 2015, 2007 etc models and we also think other things should also be put in place like advert or hosting a race or partaken in a race with your latest car model etc just random stuff to boost sales immediately and after lunch. We think if this part of the game can be improved the will one step to the greatest tycoon mobile ever created. We hope you take your time to read this Thanks. XD.
This game is great, the mechanics and features are wonderful but.. Wait times. We understand money has to be made but this is genuinely ridiculous, we recommend that there should be an option to watch an ad (or 2 or 3) to be able to skip the times. Or instead of ridiculous wait times we think there should be paid addons. For example more engine and car types for 2.99 and more design options for 3.99 etc. There is better ways than forcing players to wait for 30 minutes that Im sure would work better.
Game is so fun to play, but like all games it has some issues. To start, it takes too long to level up and there are very little cat designs that you can do. Second, research is at level 8 and is very hard to get to. Money for storage is too high as well as materials and releases for cars. We feel that the game may be new however we are not sure about that, but if it is it would make sense for there to be issues. We love the game and hope you take our advise for inspiration on making the game better. There also should be stretch limos added.
Fun game so far but can you please allow background music from a different app, like Spotify for an example.
Leveling up is hard and game is just repeat over and over and make the best car you could.
Yes in the early stages their is alot of work involved. You start off with a decent amount of things to do but heres a list of things we would like added or changed by the devs: Gameplay: -More parts! (Thank you for the most recent update but we would love to have hundreds of parts to play with) -Better sorted categories – More vehicle designs ( more compacts, trucks, vans, minis, etc) Also make more realistic designs and a wider variety other than german and other foreign designs. -LESS PAY! MORE PLAY! It is pretty hard to come up with concepts the game sees fit even as average, meaning you get less orders and make less money when it is already hard to level up and progress as is. This game is great, its fun but waiting on factories to produce cars in 30-45 minutes is no fun and just sitting and making bluprints isnt fun either. -More engine options: when building an engine we are EXTREMELY limited to adding upgrades, fuel economy parts, or any other general realistic motor parts.
The game is great when it comes to the structure of it. We get that the start should be difficult as in any start up for business. That being said we believe it should not take forever to level up. We cant wait for future updates.
Im gonna start gentle. This is a fun game dont get us wrong. The level system is easy to grasp and the blueprint system is easy to work with we have some issues. The first is the market system. There is no refresh time nor are there demand percent numbers. Very important, important, and less important are a good start to this but those are only categories to it. Now we know we said the blueprint system is easy to use but, Thats before the market opens at lv 7. Once at 7 you can open the market and look at it, but to build a blueprint off the market trend you have to memorize the market then build off what you can remember. This is very difficult for people like us who have memory and focus problems. There is also no way to see the numbers on the car while youre selecting the equipment so you have to keep bouncing back and forth to see what your numbers are before you finalize the car. Not so much a problem but makes it considerably more tedious. Now for the wait times we understand that it takes time to build a car and the more intricate the car the more time and material is required but if your going to place wait times into a game there should be more to do in the game to keep people engaged in the game. This will encourage more people to spend their money on the game because they are having more fun. Rather than waiting 20+ minutes on the manufacturing process. The warehouse does it really only cap at 200,000 for materials? We sell every car we make at the expense of 2 hours or more because we dont have enough warehouse space to build more than 1,000 low end cars at a time. 675 if higher end. This game platform has so much potential to grow and become a major hit that may even be able to get released on a platform like Xbox or PlayStation but the work will need to be done to improve before it can make it that far. Make these adjustments and you will see your ratings explode or keep the game how it is and watch it stay where it is. This is all your decision as a game dev and we hope you take your time to read this and make the improvements we have listed.
Good game but on the start we dont know what to do. Whenever we try to sell a car it says needs more headquarters space and we need help we dont know what to do.
We gotta say the game the way it is now is kinda weird its online but you never interact with anybody we would rather have offline game with npcs you compete with to come out with best car/engine for example mustang vs Camaro type scenarios It would also be cool to have a few different car designs cuz they get a little stale also please add trucks to the game we hate that they are categorized as SUVs also we get that youre trying to make money but please cut back on the time for R&D and make it available from the start also if you can add more engines like a V10 as well as twin-cylinder and three cylinders that would be great to have more verity, also it would be great to have actual reviews for car instead of ratings the reviews point out that the car is cheap but has a great engine or vice versa we know we sound very demanding but Im just saying what the game needs some more to be the great car manufacturing game it should be you dont have to rush the development of the game hell you dont have to listen to us but if you add some of these features it would only make the game that much better we enjoyed the game for a few days but after making so many cars it gets repetitive and hard to stay creative with the designs and the wait times overall the game is fun for a few days but gets boring pretty fast. P.S please keep working on this game it has the biggest potential ever since we havent seen a car tycoon come close to this it just needs a little more features to be the best car tycoon game.
Everything else is great except the fact that if you start developing something youve just unlocked, if you dont keep the app open in the background, all progress will be lost when trying to develop something.
Good game when it decides to load.
The game is good but people only want cars once so they should want it multiple times from different people and sometimes the screen glitches and doesnt work also can you make a PC version.
Has a great concept with great design! What makes this not a great game is how hard you make it for the people starting out. If you want this game to get better ratings and have more people play it then make the earlier levels easier as you ascend to higher levels. Make it progressively harder so it makes the game more enjoyable. Like level 6 to 7 feels like an accomplishment. You have 20 levels yet its hard (almost impossible) just getting to 10 and while you get there youre forced to spend money. Cant respect a game dev who cant respect the time the players want to put in but are not able to due to pay wall and long grind system thats not enjoyable.
The overall concept and game features are nicely done. Its a nice process that seems to take some consideration to make a profit or progress through the game. We did spend money, in which we wasted the first bit of RP, no biggie. However, we paid like 6 bucks to unlock a portion of the research center. The Development Slot 2. Im not certain where the bug is; however Ill start an item in that slot and it will not complete. Itll simply clear that slot. Which is frustrating as these take hours to complete.
Honestly, great game. We would totally recommend this game IF you fix a bug where after you make a blueprint of a car, you cant put it up to sell because you cant click it. Its at the bottom of the list and when you scroll to see it, it pulls the list back up. Other than this, this game is great.
Feels like they didnt even take any feedback. How are the problems below still existing after so many updates? And these are just from less than 1 hour in game. 1. Please stop the app interfering with our audio, the music is not that good to stop us from listening to YouTube. 2. We hate that we cant swipe to go back and have to reach for the top corner every time. 3. We hate that checking more info on a part is so annoying. It takes you to the top of the part list every time. Makes it so hard to compare parts. Additional -1 star, because we lost all progress and purchases while on our android phone.
A weird game, didnt really get the concept and we wish there was some 3D elements to it. Some parts felt clunky but good business development concept, could be easier to play.
This game is a malfunction, it doesnt His game stinks.
It would be nice if this was playable but its not. Changing screen to the factory or sales results in a wait icon on the window and it never opens, just constantly complains about broken connections and a need to login again. That returns you to the opening screen where you repeat the process. Fix it or live with bad reviews because its simply not playable on our relatively new iPad.
We recently downloaded this app with high hopes, but unfortunately, it has been a huge disappointment. The loading times are incredibly long, and it's frustrating to have to wait several minutes just to access basic features. It's not just the initial loading time either; every time we try to switch between sections or even view a single page, we have to wait an unreasonable amount of time. It's almost as if the app is not optimized for modern devices, and we feel like we're wasting our time waiting for it to catch up. We would not recommend this app to anyone who values their time and sanity. Save yourself the frustration and avoid this app at all costs.
We are in the starting stage and im creating our first blueprint, and for some reason we cant create the blueprint. The flashing dots will not go away. Not sure if im missing something, but really need some help. Game looks like it would be really fun but, It is way too difficult for beginner players, and not really in depth enough which causes some confusion.
It wont let us play just keeps loading.
It wont load. You cant even play the game.
When we name our company and hit start our screen turns black, we have literally tried everything to fix this to.
We open the app, go to Sales Center and then app quits, tried everything to make it work, but it doesnt keep the app open.
The game just sits and loads even though Im on 400mg/s internet and wont load anything.
We just downloaded the game. Literally we go to do the first blueprint and it tells us that there isnt a connection. Ive tried it for two days. Updated our phone, reset our settings and it still doesnt work. Im on an iPhone 13 mini.. Any thoughts.
The game can be fun. But loading for up to a minute between each screen is just crazy and ruins the game completely. Just to get into the game it can take a minute to load, and then another minute to get into the factory, then a minute to load into sell the cars. It just ruins and took up space so we let it go.
Literally cant do the first task.
Game could be great but we wouldnt know because it wont load.
When we click on our factory or sales floor it just loads forever. We're on a iPhone 12 Pro Max and 5g connection it's not on our side. Broken game sadly.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.4.2
- Size: 30.68 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Luca Stosch
Last updated: 19th September 2020 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Luca Stosch