You can open Car Town from your phone's browser, with no app or APK to install, but the game is built for a computer screen: its stage has a fixed size, so on a phone it looks small, and we have not tested it on real Android or iPhone devices. The website around the game does fit a phone screen. This guide separates what we checked from what we did not, shows what to expect in portrait and landscape, and says what to do if you try it anyway.
Use a computer for the setup we tested, or try your phone and tell us how it went. Either way you only need a browser and a free account of your own.
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.
In short, you can open it, but the experience is not tuned for phones. Car Town is a browser game, so there is nothing to download: you go to cartown.fbgamesweb.com in your phone's browser, create a free account and play. The pages of the site (home, sign-up, support) fit a phone screen. The scene inside the game does not resize that way: it keeps a fixed size designed for a computer monitor.
That is why the Car Town home page itself recommends a computer. We cannot promise more than that. Without tests on real phones, we cannot say it runs smoothly on your model, and we will not claim it does.
We ran the Car Town site through a simulated phone screen in Chrome on a computer, at 390 by 844 pixels. A walk-through of 20 checks passed all 20: the home page had no sideways scrolling, we created a real account, entered the game, saw the header with level, coins and credits, opened the account menu, switched language, visited the support and donate pages, logged out and logged back in. The pages also had no sideways scrolling at 768 and 1280 pixels wide.
We also simulated a touch on an iPhone-sized screen. One tap opened the Glove Box, so in that test a tap did what a mouse click does. It was a simulation on a computer, which is useful but not the same as holding a real phone.
Quite a lot. We have not tried real phones or tablets, whether Android or iPhone. Chrome is the only browser we have used, so Safari, Firefox and Edge are unverified. We have not tested dragging objects with a finger in Edit Garage, the reflex races with a finger, or full screen on an iPhone. The game has no pinch-to-zoom and no two-finger drag, so use its zoom button instead.
If you try Car Town on a phone anyway, we would like to hear how it went. Open a support ticket from the game and include a screenshot, your phone model and the browser you used. Practice races are free and use no fuel, so Practice is the safest place to see how the timing feels under your finger.
The scene has a fixed size. In our simulated portrait view it filled the width of the screen but only about 40 percent of its height, leaving more than half of the screen free, and turning the phone sideways roughly doubled its size. That measurement is rough and was taken early on, so use it as a guide, not as a promise. Landscape is the way to get a bigger picture.
The game gives you its own buttons in the corners for zoom, full screen, picture quality, sound and music; full screen is also in the account menu. Most of the game is clicks, which become taps on a touch screen, and you only type in the shop search, the neighbors panel and the website forms. The English and Spanish switch is in the site header and also works inside the game without reloading.
We measured loading in a lab: Chrome on a computer with a limited network and, in one profile, a processor four times slower to imitate a phone. It was not a real phone, so round the numbers and do not take them as a promise. The first visit downloads about 8 to 9 MB. The garage appeared in about 5 seconds on fiber, 9 on 4G, 15 on 4G with the slower processor and 34 on slow 3G.
On a second visit in the same browser, only 0.1 to 0.3 MB were needed and the garage showed up in about 3 seconds. The browser keeps the game's files to load faster next time; nothing is installed and Car Town asks for no permissions. If you are on mobile data, do the first load on Wi-Fi.
If the screen stays blank for a long time, reload the page; the account menu also has an entry to reload the game. Your progress is saved on the server, so reloading does not lose it.
Not in anything we can state. Our tests do not separate the two, and neither has been tried on a real device, so everything above applies to both: the site fits the screen, the game scene stays small and the results are unverified. On an iPhone you would probably use Safari, which we have not tried.
We publish no Car Town app: there is no APK, no Google Play or App Store listing from us and no installer. The only place is cartown.fbgamesweb.com. The game itself comes only in English and Spanish, whatever the language of your phone.
No. Car Town Streets is a different game from the same saga, made by Cie Games for iOS and Android. This website does not offer it and does not replace it. We do not know whether it is available in the app stores today, so check the store listing and the publisher yourself.
If what you want is the garage and reflex-race game described in these guides, the route we have tested is a computer with Chrome and a mouse.
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.
You can open Car Town in your phone's browser, with nothing to install, but it is made for computer screens: the game scene has a fixed size and looks small on a phone. We have not tested it on real phones, so we cannot promise it runs well. A computer with a mouse is the safer choice.
No. This edition of Car Town has no app, no APK and no installer; it opens in the browser at cartown.fbgamesweb.com. Be careful with any site that offers a Car Town APK. Car Town Streets is a different mobile game from the same saga and is not offered here.
We cannot say yet. Car Town opens from a browser, and a simulated touch test on an iPhone-sized screen opened a window with one tap, but we have not tried a real iPhone, Safari or full screen on iOS. If you test it, send us a ticket with your model and a screenshot.
Because the game scene in Car Town has a fixed size meant for a computer monitor. In portrait it fills the width of the screen but only about 40 percent of the height, and landscape roughly doubles it. Use the in-game zoom button, which is the only zoom Car Town offers.
No. Car Town has no pinch-to-zoom and no two-finger drag. Use the zoom button in the corner of the game instead, and the full-screen button if you want more room. We have not tested dragging objects with one finger in Edit Garage, so we cannot say how that behaves.
In our lab tests the first visit to Car Town downloaded about 8 to 9 MB, and later visits in the same browser only 0.1 to 0.3 MB, because the browser keeps the game's files. Those tests used a computer, not a real phone, so treat the figures as a rough guide and do the first load on Wi-Fi.
We have not tested it. Friendly races in Car Town are reflex tests: you wait on yellow, press green, then shift three times near the green line. Practice mode is free and uses no fuel, so try that first and see whether the timing works for you. The game is built around mouse clicks.
Reload the page; the account menu has an option to reload the game, and your progress stays on the server. If Car Town still fails, open a support ticket with a screenshot, your phone model and the browser you used. Chrome on a computer is the setup we tested.
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. Android, iPhone, iOS, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Google Play and the App Store are trademarks of their respective owners.
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