Better than I expected, but still has a lot of opportunity.

Having worked within a dealership in both sales and service previously, the game does a good job in trying to simplify their replication of used car recon. Like in real life, you as the manager wants to pay as little as possible, and put as little money as possible into reconditioning, and getting it on the front line of the car lot or online for sale ASAP. Also always being on the auction tab, or paying attention to it, i know dealers that spend half their day buying vehicles similarly to this.

Having a wide variety of makes and models will give you more ammo to be able to sell to almost anyone that you come across when selling off your phone. I wish you could work multiple deals at once, perhaps reaching a certain level or achievement can unlock this?
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ Human
☐ Lizards

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

In Car Trader Simulator you are a man, grew by your uncle, from which you learnt to sell vehicles. After becoming an adult, you decided to live in Old York City and start your own dealership. Now you have to choose how to run your activity: being a part of the mafia and using it for shady business or running it legality? You will find it soon….


Campaign: The story of the campaign is influenced by 2 main factors: Reputation and lawfulness. Based on which action you take during the narration. The more you will cooperate with the police, finding illegal businesses, more points of lawfulness you will get.
While reputation points are based in customer experience in your dealership. Do you want to earn more money using second-hand parts instead of new? This will impact the trust of your clients in the city and the longevity of the cars you sold.

Sandbox: In this modality you just need to concentrate your forces in making money and upgrading your dealership with more stores around the city and more employees.


Before starting your own business, you need to take some workers on your side. Each worker can be leveled up from 1 to superstar. You can increase it using the training center (fastest and expensive way) and make them just working in your workshop. You can choose from:

• Mechanic: the most important person inside, he will repair your cars with scraps (used parts) or money (new parts) and if the customer wants, paints the car. To be faster in his work, you can invest some money to take better equipment.
  
  
• Driver: He will be responsible to take the car you bought to the stores around the city and during the campaign making some little missions for you. To make him work better, you can buy a car transporter or a tow truck with more places for cars.
  
  
• Thief: In case you don’t want to pay for cars, the thief will steal them for you. But make sure to avoid police or he will go in prison and will need to pay for his release. You can equip him with lockpicks, computers, scooters, trailer and police scanners to make the stealing fastest and with less dangers.

Once you have your own workers, you need to buy destroyed or new cars from:
Insurance/police auction (usually the cheaper way with your own offers) or through reliable websites and black market (with a preset prices and usually more expensive than auctions).

Fun Fact: Devs took real photos of crashed cars around the internet and when you will repair it, the car will not be the same. Well they couldn’t do in a better way but it’s still fun to see.

Once the driver put the bought car in your store, you can choose if repairs with broken parts (scraps) or new parts (money). If you want to sell it easier, you can make an ad for it online. In that case customers will come just for that car and will be easier to dispose it.

The challenge of the game consists in buying the car at the right price, in case repair or modify and earn from the selling of it. Seems easy theoretically maybe not that simple in game.


The game is just a point-click, the keyboard and mouse is enough and the best way to play it. Smooth commands and a user friendly interface, make the game easy to learn.


The soundtrack is composed by very well made and relaxing musics. I could prefer more selection of music or a list where you can choose which one you want to run because I didn’t like some of them, but this is based on your own tastes.
An even better option could be to use your own music files inside the pc or even Spotify connected during the game session.

• Random Events: The game is full of random events than could may lose you money/reputation/lawfulness. So you shouldn’t never use all your money because sometimes one of these events could ruin your career;
  
  
• A huge choice of cars and different car manufactures inside the game (Suv, Hatchback, Sedan, Coupé, Van and supercars);
  
  
• Import a custom pic from your pc, making it the logo of your company.

• After completed the 2 types of stories in Campaign, could become boring making always the same actions just to earn money.
  
  
• You could encounter in some little bugs inside your own store or during the dialogues of the campaign. Nothing that make the game unplayable, it’s still in early access.

Usually I’m a casual gamer of racing games and I’ve never tried management games. In this case the game is related with cars so why not to try it? Well I’m positively surprised how I enjoyed the early hours of the game during the campaign. The little story (10 chapters) got my attention and I also enjoyed the background of trading cars.

If you aren’t really into management games try it with the free Demo, who knows, you could be surprised.

A review copy was provided by the developer thanks to the group Reviewers Paradise .

Ended up returning the game. It looked promising but once you get past the tutorial you are dropped on the map and set free. The Bidding on cars is not very fun. UI is not great to navigate with dropping employees on the map then sending them out.

I would pass for now but I am sure that it can only get better from here.

This game was hyped a lot... at the end it was just hype and did not fulfill its expectations surrounding it.
Well, I was hoping for more. I was eagerly waiting for this game since I heard of it but got disappointed.

The games itself feel empty and dull.
The gameplay and mechanics are not really fun to do, but instead they feel more like something very tedious.
This would probably be a good game if it was done in a way like Auto Dealership Tycoon, but as it is now, it just reminds me of quite a lot of post 2018 developers that just thrown together something from the rack.

FOLLOW UP, to Dev's
Gave it another go but i stand by what i wrote.
Game was still no fun after almost 3 hours... Sorry.

6/10: Would be a seven, but the campaign only recognizes that the player has the required five sedans when all five are in a garage at the same time. (Never mind the fact car transporters can transport as many as six cars.)


In case the reader didn't already read the review ol' Il Pallino wrote about the demo version of Car Trader Simulator, the game features the player as a used car salesman in the likeness of New York City. The campaign features good, neutral, and evil career paths, but not enough information can be provided until the dang campaign gets fixed!! Even without a story involving fluctuations in reputation and lawfulness ratings (along with the ability to receive free cars) the sandbox still features the ability to buy (or steal) cars, repair the cars, and either directly sell cars to buyers over the phone or transport the cars to a dealership where they'll automatically be sold for 90% to 110% of the invoice value. Depending on how high or low the player's lawfulness rating is, the player can either unlock police car auctions or the black market.


The graphics are certainly basic enough, and almost all of what the player will be looking at is a top-down map of the likeness of New York City that turns white during the winter months.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2702747597

The sounds are all basic. Nothing special yet nothing game breaking. Normally ol' Il Pallino likes a nice loop of good lounge music, only the lounge music that plays in the background ain't good! The developers likely know this, which is why the music can be muted, and the player should play their own kind of music in the background.


The game provides good incentive for either going a lawful route or a lawless route, but no reward for being somewhere in the middle.... Unless maybe the player is looking to finish the campaign somewhere in the middle. Getting the lawfulness meter high enough allows the player to unlock police auctions which provide a third (and usually more profitable) method of buying cars. Apart from the occasional award being given for being lawful enough, if a player ever has a car stolen from their lot, the chance the police will recover the vehicle is higher. (One percent per every point of lawfulness.) If a player is lawless enough (which is done easily enough through buying stolen cars on the darkweb and having a car thief steal vehicles) this will unlock black market car auctions.

The whole process of buying cars, fixing them up, and selling them for more than they're worth is fun for anyone who enjoys a good management sim. The whole process of haggling with customers is fun, although this becomes tedious after awhile, but chances are, if the player is playing on the hard difficulty level and likely paid above invoice (dealer's) price then manual car sales are a must. (Manual car sales are also good if the player has been hoarding automatic transmission vehicles, along with hybrids and EV's.)

Despite encountering only very little of the campaign, ol' Il Pallino is quite impressed with the story, and while a good management game doesn't need any kind of a story, a nice story is always appreciated.


Thankfully a true pause feature was added to the game ever since the demo, and while this mitigates the effect of being overwhelmed, the player is still likely to make mistakes by multitasking through auction participation, car selling, and ordering units around the map to do things like pick up and repair vehicles or drive over power-ups to boost their recognition, lawfulness, and/or employee skills. If the player is in the process of stealing cars, then there's another much more challenging task (on top of all of these other tasks) of having a car thief return to a garage with a car without being caught by the police. Admittedly, there were a couple of auctions ol' Il Pallino lost out on because he was too focused on haggling with a customer.

A campaign scenario requires purchasing five of a certain type of car for a buyer, but the game requires the player to have all five cars in a garage all at the same time or else the campaign will not advance. The only way this can be accomplished is to purchase another garage, but with the cheapest option available (outside of the original garage) being worth $25,000, the player is either going to have to play off of inside information and really grind, or take out a loan and hope they made quick enough progress in the campaign to where the cars get sold before the loan deadline passes. Even then, the loan interest is going to really eat into the player's profits.

Many management games suffer from inverse difficulty curves. (i.e. Starting out difficult and ending out easily.) Car Trader Simulator is another one of these games. The campaign doesn't put enough emphasis on selling cars to random customers or through a car dealership. While starting out is difficult at any level, it's entirely possible to make so much money near the end of the campaign to where players don't even need to buy and sell any more cars.


The developer wanted ol' Il Pallino to review the demo game, but didn't seek out his review for the full version of the game... They must have known that he'd find a bug or two. (Or were trying to lure him into buying the game, which he eventually did while it was on sale!)


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The game is fun ,but not much progression. When you get lots of money it's kinda still the same thing. In other words you play it one time and that's it. You don't feel accomplishments making more money. I suggest more unlockables

🌟🌟🌟☆☆ 3/5 Stars

-----{Graphics}-----
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Paint.exe

-----{Gameplay}-----
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better

-----{Audio}-----
☐ Eargasm
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

-----{Audience}-----
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Human
☐ KI

-----{PC Requirements}-----
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

-----{Difficulty}-----
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☑ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Dark Souls

-----{Grind}-----
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

-----{Gametime}-----
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

-----{Price}-----
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

-----{Bugs}-----
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Average
☐ Can get annoying
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Car Trader Sim Review

I played the demo on stream, got hooked, and requested the key. We played it, and man it is a FUN little game. I think it's priced very well for its worth and recommend at least watching if you're interested.

I'm definitely a little surprised it's as engaging as it is. I was always flipping cars, shopping for new ones, repairing and moving others, and selling them in different ways over and over until it was 5 hours later before I even knew it. That's a really good sign.

It's not a triple A title, but it's also not priced like one. It'll most likely give you a nice weekend or two of fun, and for $10 I'm fine with that. I will say that the thief is great if you use them right. If you aren't near your garage, don't steal a car. Having 2 thieves, one with the radar and another that actually steals the car, makes it much more viable. I wouldn't mind having both on the same thief, even if I had to pay more ingame to do so, but it's not a game breaker.
The websites and cell phone really make the game better, despite appearances. I thought they were useless at first, but after 20 minutes I barely noticed I was using them as I flew through different menus to place cars for sale or take care of a buyer.

Make sure you look at the map legend to see what those icons mean; I missed that on my playthrough till chat pointed it out. It made the game a ton easier. The only suggestion for the dev I would have is maybe give more rewards to the player the further down a line you go, criminal or legit. They aren't bad, just it seems like there could be more to do if you go fully bad boy vs good boy, is all. It would be nice to see if you go legit the ability to get access to police auctions, wholesale car auctions, and the like. I'd also love more spots to buy car lots, garages, or a bigger map. BUT, it's fine the way it is, they are just wants, not complaints, against the game.

I got a fairly bit more value in the game than I was expecting for the price (and yes I know I got it for review after I asked) but I always put it in real dollar terms. I think the game plays great on PC, and if it could go on a tablet it could be a great little time waster on flights, bus, in line at the store, or at the in-laws during the holidays.

I will be making a small YouTube series on it, and that's saying something for a game this small, but it's got that one thing I like: the “Just one more car, one more turn, one more sale!” feeling. That's a really good thing and I wanted to reward it with a review.

6 months without a update, so much potential wasted, this game could be much better!!
i don't recommend.

Edit*
i came back too see if something happened, but no, an early acess game is with no update for almost 10 months now, the devs should just change it for full game already instead, cuz they clearly aren't into it anymore.
GL to anyone that expect anything more about this game, i would like a refound if i could, but i played too much of this for my own good.

Found this little gem while I was browsing the Steam Store. Spend my last Steam wallet on it, and it was worth every cent.

Buying, selling, repairing, and stealing cars. From Diesel to Hybrid, from selling/buying them on an online Marketplace, Auction and even a Black Market.

You have to hire employees and manage them, they repair, steal or transport the cars. You can call customers who are interested in a specific car model/type to negotiate a price or just sell them in your own Car Dealership. Everything is possible.

When you want to buy a car, you get to see real car photo's, that shows the damage on a car with different angles. There are so many different cars, the game will not get old fast. After selling a car, people will leave you a review and these determine your reputation.

Add an interesting storyline in the mix and voila, hours of fun.

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