Epic Car Factory
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 4.9h 10.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 280 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 Compatible, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Basement ($19.99, scores 22) and Voxel Tycoon ($24.99, scores 51) both outscore it.
More about Epic Car Factory
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
4.9 hours to finish it, 10 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Pretty fun game, kinda idle. It's a grind for sure but there is fun flavor texts that pop up to remind you it's a basic game. Got all Achievements in 7.4hrs, doubt I'll return to the game now that it's complete.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A short and simple car tycoon sim, very neatly made in retro style, all functions work properly, 7/10 overall good, but could expand more.
TL;DR: Don't be misled, this is not a tycoon game. More like a simple incremental clicker that becomes super repetitive within an hour. In detail: - No strategy or challenge at all. After making 5-10 cars, within 45 minutes of gameplay I was the top factory and never got pressured from the game. It is a simple pick parts > design car > profit. They tried adding events where a some parts are mroe expensive and demand...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Epic Car Factory scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/656510/epic-car-factoryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.