# Car Mechanic - Restore Cars — user reviews > 34 indexed App Store user reviews of Car Mechanic by Giraffe Games Limited, rated 4.40/5 from 401 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/car-mechanic-restore-cars/id1538592410/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/car-mechanic-restore-cars/id1538592410.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 298 · 4★ 40 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 37 ## What do users think of Car Mechanic? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay - 💡 Interesting car restoration concept - 👍 Great for beginners - 👍 "Awesome" and "really great game" **Cons** - 👎 Predominantly a match-3 game - 👎 Forced monetization/pay-to-win - 👎 Repetitive and boring puzzles - 👎 Frustrating difficulty spikes - 👎 Terrible and repetitive music - 👎 Lack of originality - 👎 Poorly executed interactive elements - 👎 Bare-bones story and writing - 👎 Developers seem to have abandoned the game - 👎 Limited number of cars/game content - 👎 Glitches and bugs - 👎 "Garbage" and "rezalet!" **Commonly reported bugs** - Finished car wouldn't leave screen - Freezes/crashes frequently - Website contact form doesn't work - Level 345 is impossible **Most requested features** - More cars to restore - Ability to drive the restored cars - More engaging car building/restoration mechanics - Less reliance on match-3 puzzles - Better music - Improved graphics and gameplay - Option to watch ads for power-ups instead of buying them - More original content ## Newest reviews (12 of 34) ### 3/5 — Chrome Valley Customs without the Charm *2025-06-08* Like the title says, clone of CVC with some interesting added ideas that are half baked, much worse writing and dialogue, and the same monetization push that plagues all of these games. The idea of adding in interactive elements to make working on the car more dynamic is a great one, it is executed in such a rudimentary way; it would have been cooler to have actual control over the tools and have consequences for how well you use them. Puzzle games are not as fun as CVC, and the frustration of the seeming randomness of losing at “easy” levels as you progress, coupled with the really bare bones story and writing make this a disappointing take that could have been really unique. ### 3/5 — Car Restoration *2025-05-29* This game started fun, but the developer try to force you into making monitory purchase you really done have to make if it played on it’s same level. They add targets to remove when you’ve already reached the goal. Then you run out of moves and buying time or lives becomes necessary to progress! Start over? You run into the same scenario as your previous game. It becomes frustrating. Soooo I delete the game. Not worth it!!! ### 3/5 — Has potential! *2025-04-09* The game seems like it was abandoned by the developers. Hasn’t been updated in over a year. But they need to change the music. I feel like I’m playing a toddlers game cause of the terrible music. Also, the games needs a serious update in graphics, gameplay, etc. But it has the potential to be a great game. ### 3/5 — Level 345 is not clearing *2025-01-20* Great game but i am stuck on level 345 and it is not clearing tried 1000 times ### 3/5 — Money *2024-06-18* The game was pretty good at the beginning but it try’s to force you to spend money when you get up in the higher levels ### 2/5 — Why though *2023-12-13* I’m not sure if I’m just speaking for my self here but I’m Addict to cars but I hate stupid puzzles in car games it ruins the entire game it should be that you start with 20000 and spend on restorations ### 4/5 — Fun but annoying *2023-12-13* This game is very fun but it doesn’t say that it is a match 3 game. If you could just design the car with it giving you choices it would be waayyyyy more fun. ### 3/5 — A bit glitchy, and a bit short *2023-09-23* I like the game overall and enjoy(ed) playing it. But it freezes/crashes about once every two hours of gameplay. And apparently I’ve just finished the game, having built the eighth and apparently final car. i tried contacting the company to ask questions about it but they don’t have an in-game feedback option, and their website contact form doesn’t work. Seems like they don’t care much about this title and don’t want to hear about it. ### 3/5 — Is that it? *2023-09-17* Needs more cars to do up. Finishes at the Monster Truck. Disappointing. ### 2/5 — Заработок *2023-07-01* Заработок в этой игре на мой взгляд просто ужасен. Никакого реализма. Сам процесс замены деталей мне понравился, но то, как надо зарабатывать деньги-ужасно. Придумайте что-нибудь получше, тогда я сменю оценку. Уровни порой могут забрать все жизни, так как очень тяжёлые(например hard уровни). Уровни в принципе скучные и занимают большую часть геймплея. ### 3/5 — Good game - but…… *2022-06-06* A really good game, can be challenging but always keeps you wanting to get playing, the only issue is the number of cars you can actually restore and repair. I got through all the cars very quickly so kinda feels pointless now ### 4/5 — Car mechanic fun addictive fun *2021-08-23* Add more cars please and wood be great if you could drive the car ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Tamir oyunu mu belli değil *2025-11-15, version 1.42* Oyunun içinde candy crash oynuyorum resmen böyle bir oyun olamaz rezalet! Ayrıca arkadaki müzik çok sıkıcı yani sakın OYNAMAYIN! ÇOK KÖTÜ 👎 !😡😡 ### 1/5 — Not for kids *2024-05-25* I got this for my son. Only to find he couldn’t progress because you first need the cash to do car repairs by playing a match three colours game. Which I found extremely hard at level 30, and I come from the era of candy crush. Another gardenscape clone, only worse. ### 1/5 — Way way way way too hard *2024-05-25* It is so hard that I quit the game there are only two good cars and there are better games that are the same ### 1/5 — Garbage *2024-04-13* STOP WITH THE MATCH GAMES. All i want is a game where i can build a custom car. There are way too many match games out there. Try to get some original material. I will not download another game from this developer. ### 1/5 — Way to much work for tiny reward *2023-12-28* If you don’t spend money you will get to a point you can’t pass the levels super tiny rewards for to much frustration uninstalled waste of time ### 1/5 — Not what you think. *2023-12-04* More solving puzzles than restoring cars. ### 1/5 — Level 345? *2023-11-19* Not a terrible game but level 345 is next to impossible to beat. So I gave up playing it. ### 1/5 — Все время нет понятно *2023-07-09* Игра чмо ### 1/5 — BRUH BRUH BRUH WHAT SORT OF CAR GUY WOULD LIKE THIS *2023-04-25* First of all the way he game is made makes it seem little more than a slightly modified version of a match 3 game the devs had constructed earlier, but was so unsuccessful that they thought they would get somewhere by ding this (by the way this is a rant). The bit where you assemble the car ends up being little more than dragging the thing out and holding the screen to drill a screw into place or weld something. But, in order to even take out something as well as put on, you need to get money, which you can ONLY get by match 3. Sure, there are some hammers and power hammers that you can buy with coins that are obtained after each match 3 game, and coins can be bought with real money, the way it works (the part where you see and interact with the car is indeed the main menu) is just making it feel like a glorified version of Candy crush, or, even worse, Fishdom (which is the definition of rubbish) altered for car guys. The soundtrack is horrible, and to be honest if you swapped around the two soundtracks that would be way better. Could be deleted within 10 minutes. Do not get if you want car repair games, there are others out there. ### 1/5 — Disappointed. *2021-09-13* It’s literally just candy crush but cars ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Had to start over *2025-10-19* After reaching around level 256-268 or so I had to start over because the finished car wouldn’t leave the screen. ### 5/5 — Batman *2025-05-31* I love it ### 5/5 — Awesome *2023-11-28* Finally a game I like playing ### 5/5 — Desafio Alcançável *2023-11-26* Viciante! Consegui zerar, tanto no Androide (335 fases) quanto no IOs (444 fases), sem precisar comprar qualquer tipo de vantagem! ### 5/5 — More *2023-04-06* More cars I love this game and I have completed it ### 5/5 — really great game *2022-06-30* i strongly recommend playing ### 5/5 — Не реально крутая игра!!!👍🏼 *2022-05-16* Игра замечательная!!! Развивайтесь в том же направлении!!! Молодцы👏🏽👏🏽👍🏼👍🏼 ### 5/5 — Efsane *2022-01-05, version 1.07* Eşle roketle UFO’la cukkala aracını yenile ### 5/5 — Car mechanic *2020-12-05* I love this app a lot the only issue I have is that you get no power up to help you with difficulty levels unles you buy them I would even settle watching a advertisement.please fix this little issue other then that great job.thanks karen ### 5/5 — Car mechanic:restore cars *2020-12-04* This is a great beginner game for boys and girls in educating them how to restore cars (at an early stage). It’s not too difficult for ages 8 plus, even women would enjoy it. As lots of women could pick up tips from this app. It’s definitely not designed to teach mechanics what they should already know! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*