Car Tycoon - PC

This is a great tycoon game, where you design manufacture and sell your own automobiles. This is the most enjoyable automobile tycoon game out there, but it does have two issues. You can't sell to the big fleet companies, which makes one mission in the game undoable, and it doesn't work properly with Windows 10. Hopefully gog.com or steam will find a way to fix the compatibility.

Love the game even how old it is still is fun to play, however from time to time it does freeze.

This new release, developed by VectorCom Development and distributed through Fishtank Interactive, puts the user in the driver's seat of an automobile company. The goal, of course, is to beat your competitors at the game of building and selling cars. While many auto buffs would find such a simulation exciting, the buggy Car Tycoon is not yet ready for prime time. I've found a downloadable patch for the German language version, but none yet for the English version.First, this game takes eons to start and load. I tested the game on a 1 Ghz machine with 256 MB of RAM, and this game took several minutes to load from the start. Once under way, performance was acceptable.The game provides a tutorial mode to allow first-time users an interactive way to learn the game's operation. While that feature is helpful, I found it difficult to turn off the tutorial mode, even after successfully completing the tutorial's steps. During the game, a few program errors occurred and revealed the game's German heritage with Deutch-flavored error messages that were unreadable, at least to this English-speaking car fanatic.After a few hours of play, the game's more serious flaws began to show. For example, the car models that I stopped producing would occasionally still show as being sold at a few dealerships, even if the dealer's stock was zero. Since a dealership can only sell from 2 to 4 vehicle models, this reduced the dealership's ability to stock new models. That annoyance alone makes the game frustrating to play, and makes one wonder how much testing occurred before declaring this product ready for market. In other cases, saved games couldn't be reloaded, creating more frustration.The game's brief documentation is filled with misspellings and grammatically errors, which I assume were introduced when translating the text from German. While this doesn't create a big problem, it casts an unprofessional shadow on the product. Also, Fishtank's web site is nearly useless, providing no support information for the product.If you're looking for a simulation of the auto industry, this doesn't come close. In the U.S., the manufacturers don't own the dealerships. This game has you bidding for new dealerships via an auction, and those dealerships can only stock a few different models. There are no decent reports available that compare you to your competitors, such as sales reports, percentage of market share, comparative financial statements, etc. The only feedback that comes close is a window that tells you the quantities of vehicles registered in a single city.Oddly, the game's designers chose a SimCity-style town layout for the simulation, which is the game's biggest weakness. You sell vehicles in a city or two, and that's it. Not much fun, and certainly not realistic. A country map or globe would have been more realistic.Once you master the game, which doesn't take long, the fun wears thin. Since the demise of the old simulation "Detroit", I was hoping for a high-quality automotive industry simulation to hit the market. My wait continues.

the game is fun and challenging . if u like the tycoon game you will like this one . hope everyone likes it .

While I was expecting an average car simulation game, I have been deeply dissappointed by the Car tycoon. I expected something close to Roller Coaster Tycoon. This game is not even close. I enjoy the potential of building different car models and research, buying other parts form suppliers, I dislike the bugs that continue to plague the system. Too many times the sound cliches or system stops in the middle of something for about 30 seconds. The map is pretty. But it is useles. No markers for the outsourceing of components on the map and no way to measure your success other than the weak graph that sinks as you borrow money. The manual is useless and the WEbsite is yet to be completed. All from a game released 2 months ago. I agree with the reveiw below.SOme german needs to do his homework.

I am into cars and sims-and like many others, I was hoping this was the game I had been waiting for. Simply put: it isn't. I got through the first "year" only to have the game freeze (negating that hour or so of playing). The instructions/controls are extremely confusing. Also, while playing, it is very hard to figure out if you are profiting or not, because the cost of each car only includes the components used and does not include labor, etc. The website is worthless. With a few good patches and a complete/corrected instruction manual, this game might be OK-but it's probably too far gone even for that. Obviously they were trying to cash in on the "Tycoon" series popularity. Don't confuse this with the real thing!

Car Tycoon is a manager game in which you are the owner of a car company that produces and sells cars. You start in the 1950's in a small town somewhere in the USA. You build a factory, a car shop and a repair facility (most of your money is gone by then) and start to produce cars. By selling them, you'll get money to invent new parts which will then power your new car models. There are up to 3 computer players which want to become rich, too.Features:develop more than 400 cars, 7 different types40 scenariosmore than 400 pre-made cars from 1950-2000more than 300 different buildingsZoom

Don't bother. I love cars. I love business simulations, but just looking at the official website for the game turned me off to the whole thing. They INSIST you watch all their elaborate graphic animations, virtually guaranteed to waste your time unless you have a T1 hardwired to their server. I didn't even get past them to learn anything else about the actual game. ...