Car Manufacture
Skip · Strategy · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 1050. Windows only.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. On the same math Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game ($29.99, scores 77) and Software Inc. ($22.99, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
14 of the 772 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 785 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 3 of 143 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Car Manufacture scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/983380/car-manufactureReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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