In Car Town your friends are called neighbors. You add them from the Add Friends button, which opens the Neighbors panel, and you start with two neighbors that belong to the game: Rusty and Axel. Your garage is the place where you meet them: a lot on a street with your work station and, at the bottom of the screen, a list of everybody you know. This guide covers the panel, what neighbors can do, the Glove Box and what we have not been able to test with real people yet.
Log in and look at the bar along the bottom of the screen: Rusty is already on your neighbor list.
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The neighbor list sits at the bottom of the screen. When you begin it already shows two names from the game itself: Rusty, who welcomes you and leads the tutorial, and Axel, who sends you a racing challenge. Your own garage appears in the list as well.
Everyone else is a real player you add yourself.
Press Add Friends. It opens the Neighbors panel with six tabs: Neighbors, Requests, Search, Invite, Gifts and Photos. The panel is in English, even when you play the rest of the game in Spanish.
Search finds players by name, and you need at least three letters. Send a request from there, and the other player accepts it from their Requests tab. Invite is for people who are not in the game yet. The panel tells you that changes show up after you reload the game, so reload after adding someone.
According to the game's data, neighbors can exchange messages, help each other, look at each other's garages, send gifts and share photos. The Gifts and Photos tabs sit in the panel for that reason, and the Glove Box has a Gifting icon.
Neighbors can also be hired as workers in your garage. The hiring screen exists, but we have not tried it with real neighbors yet.
Road Trip is one of the four activities in a car's panel. It is a long trip where you earn for each passenger, and according to the game's data neighbors can join as passengers so that everyone gains.
Road Trip is a long activity, so you start it and come back later. We have not tested it with a second account, so we cannot say yet how smoothly it works between two real players.
The Glove Box button on the bottom bar opens a window with six icons: Stats, Mail, Car Show, Gifting, Sponsor and Passport. Their names say what they are for: statistics, mail, the car show contest and gifts.
Passport appeared greyed out when we looked. If one of these icons does nothing, it is not you: the beta is still filling in parts of the original.
Your garage is a lot next to a street with an intersection, with signs, cars of other drivers and your work station, a lift. Neighbors can view each other's garages, so your decorations from Edit Garage are what a visitor would see. Your garage value title starts at Flimsy Garage and grows as the value of your cars and objects does.
The decoration shop and the lot expansions are covered in the cars and customization guide, so this page does not repeat them.
The neighbor tools exist on the server and in the panel, and automated tests check requests, acceptance, search by name, invitations, messages, help, visits, gifts and photos. What we have not done is try them with two real people playing at once.
If you find that a request does not arrive, a gift does not show up or a visit fails, reload the game first. If the problem persists, open a support ticket.
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Press Add Friends to open the Neighbors panel, go to Search and type a player's name of at least three letters. Send a request, and the other player accepts it from Requests. Car Town tells you to reload the game afterward so the change shows.
They are neighbors that belong to the game and are already on your list when you start. Rusty welcomes you and leads the tutorial, and Axel sends a racing challenge, with an Incoming! notice, for your first practice race. Neither is a real player.
No. Car Town does not use Facebook in this edition. Neighbors are other players with accounts here, found by name in the Search tab or invited with a link from the Invite tab. Rusty and Axel keep you company from the start.
The Neighbors panel has a Gifts tab, and the Glove Box has a Gifting icon, so gifts between neighbors are part of Car Town. They have been checked with automated tests, not with two real players, so treat them as a new feature.
Visiting other garages is part of the neighbor features documented in Car Town, and the panel lists your neighbors for that. It has been checked with automated tests but not with two real players, so reload the game if a visit does not work.
Road Trip is a long activity you start from a car's panel, where you earn for each passenger. In Car Town, neighbors can join as passengers and everyone gains. We have not tested it with another account, so we cannot promise how it behaves with real players.
It is a window opened from the bottom bar with six icons: Stats, Mail, Car Show, Gifting, Sponsor and Passport. In Car Town it gathers your statistics, mail, contests and gifts. Passport appeared greyed out when we looked, as this is still a beta.
The Neighbors panel itself warns that changes appear when you reload the game, and that is the first thing to try. After you send or accept a request in Car Town, reload the game, then open the panel and check the Neighbors and Requests tabs again. If it still looks wrong, open a support ticket.
The game has a hiring system that lets you take on neighbors as workers at your station. In Car Town we have not tried hiring with real neighbors, so we cannot confirm it works smoothly yet. Your own jobs at the station work as usual.
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.
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