Car Town is free, runs in the browser at cartown.fbgamesweb.com, needs no Facebook and no download, and saves your progress on the server with an account of your own. The game is in English and Spanish, was tested on Chrome on a computer and is still a beta. The answers below are short and grouped by topic: account and cost, languages and phones, progress, coins and credits, the tutorial, what is missing and safety.
Still curious? Make a free account and see for yourself how Car Town plays.
Buy cars, paint them any color, put them to work in your garage and race your neighbors in friendly reflex races, in this classic Facebook car game.
In beta: some parts of the original game are missing and you may run into bugs.
You need an account of your own: a username of 3 to 24 characters, a password of 8 or more and, if you want, an email. Playing is free, and nothing is downloaded or installed.
There is no Facebook login and no importing from the Facebook game, so everyone starts a fresh account here.
The game is in English or Spanish, and the Neighbors panel is always in English. Interfaces in other languages do not exist, even when a guide like this one is written in yours.
Phones have not been tested. The stage has a fixed size designed for computer screens, and the browser we tried was Chrome.
Your money, cars, paint and level are saved on the server and tied to your own Car Town account. We reloaded the game twice in the same browser in our checks and everything was still there.
Progress belongs to the account, so keep your username and password to yourself.
Car Town has two in-game currencies: coins and credits, which the game also calls blue points. You begin with some welcome coins and credits, and the rest comes from the game itself: jobs, races, missions and the Daily Bonus.
If something looks wrong with your balance, open a support ticket.
A neighbor called Rusty guides you through your first job, a customer on the street, a car card, painting, a practice race, avatar customization and the missions. It ends by pointing you at the goals on the left of the screen.
The welcome windows you see at the start are announcements, and the X or OK buttons close them.
This is a beta: parts of the original game are missing and bugs can show up. The High Stakes Track is closed, some windows are empty placeholders and some catalog cars lack finished artwork.
The neighbor features have been checked with automated tests, not with two real players.
Offers of free coins from sites or programs outside the game are scams, and the same goes for free credits or levels. Never type your password anywhere except the game's own page.
The only address for this edition is cartown.fbgamesweb.com. If someone asks you for your login in a message, do not answer.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
No. This edition of Car Town has no Facebook login and never asks for a Facebook password. You make an account with a username and a password, and the email is optional. Because progress from the Facebook game is not imported, your first visit always starts a brand-new garage.
Yes. Creating an account and playing Car Town here costs nothing, and there is no download or installer: all you need is a browser. Keep in mind that it is an independent beta, so it is not the official site and some parts of the original game are still missing.
Open cartown.fbgamesweb.com and fill in the sign-up form. Car Town asks for a username of 3 to 24 characters (letters, numbers, dot, hyphen or underscore) and a password of 8 or more characters. The email is optional. After you sign up you enter the game and the welcome windows begin.
English and Spanish. Car Town shows Buy Cars, Edit Garage and Glove Box in English, and Comprar autos, Editar garaje and Guantera in Spanish. The Neighbors panel stays in English. There is no interface in Portuguese, French, German, Russian or Chinese, even if this page is written in your language.
We can't say yet. The game's stage is fixed in size and meant for computers, and we have only tried it in Chrome on a computer, so a phone is uncharted ground. If you try one anyway, open a support ticket to tell us how it went.
Yes. The server keeps your money, your cars, their paint and your level, and it ties them to your own Car Town account. When we reloaded the game twice in the same browser to check, everything was still there. Progress from the Facebook version of the game is not imported.
They are the game's two currencies. Credits are also called blue points, and objects in Edit Garage cost one or the other, while paint, for example, is paid with coins. Car Town gives you some of both to start, and you earn more through jobs, races, missions and the Daily Bonus.
Reload the page and log in again; your progress is kept. Then go through the steps in order: the customer, the job at your station, collecting your pay, painting a car, the practice race and the missions. If a step will not move forward even after reloading, open a support ticket.
No. The GPS window lists the High Stakes Track as closed for maintenance, while Friendly Racing is free and open. Car Town is a beta, and for now friendly races are the racing you can enter. We cannot promise a date for anything else.
No working ones. In Car Town the server decides the rewards and checks race scores, so anything that promises free coins, credits or levels is a scam. Never type your password on another site, play only at cartown.fbgamesweb.com and ignore anyone who offers you a shortcut.
An independent project, FB Games, runs it. Car Town is an original game by Cie Games, and this edition is based on the original game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cie Games, Facebook or Meta. It is a browser edition in beta, with its own server and Car Town accounts, and it is not the official site.
Brand notice: Car Town is an original game by Cie Games. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cie Games, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition, in beta. Chrome and Flash are trademarks of their respective owners.
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