NASCAR® Manager in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Great Game BUT..

Update: Developer’s response that they cannot keep the connection to their server if the app is backgrounded is not entirely true. You can definitely handle background events in the app more gracefully, they just haven’t coded it that way. Original: I was qualifying for an event race (which is simulated) when I received an urgent text I had to respond to, i quickly opened the conversation and responded and was back in the game, RACE FORFEITURE! Are you kidding me?! So now that I have a 3 score in that race whats the point of playing out the remaining races? There is no point. Something the dev team has to work on is that when my car is in Drive Hard mode, people behind me that aren’t in that mode shouldn’t be passing me, (this is with fresh tires), just so that I can pass them back and then put 4 secs in between them. This can screw up an entire race if the computer controlled racer is a defender and my racer has poor overtaking. Drafting should be considered in the game, it seems to be completely ignored. The race forfeiting I experienced has persuaded me this game is no longer for me, and I will be deleting the game, hopefully others don’t experience the same frustration.

★★★★★ Lazy developer

The game itself could be great, but the developer is lazy. For starters,the developer knows nothing about racing. Repeatedly, I have communicated with them about the driver skill setup that makes no sense, the broken AI bot drivers and the rival matchmaking. Its one excuse after the next and nothing changes. Every update released is around them making money off of you. The weekly tournament is a joke, don’t waste your time. Most players don’t know, but they don’t have enough people playing the game so you think you’re up against a real driver, but you’re not. The matchmaking is so bad you’re going to race against someone who is vastly superior or incredibly inferior. Matchmaking should not be this difficult, but the developers are clearly smoking more weed than they are actually thinking through simple issues. Speaking of issues, don’t waste your money on any upgrades. The value isn’t there and the NASCAR pass has trash rewards. Speaking of trash rewards, if you buy any of the crates you can expect 75% to be useless. I have never seen a game that had so much potential to be great but the developer was to lazy and greedy to make the necessary changes for the user.

★★★★★ Decent Game but has its issues

I have been asking for a NASCAR Manager game for a while, and I do think this is a good mobile option. The overall racing and management product is well done. As someone who has spent a lot of time on the developers other title F1 Manager, there’s enough that’s different between the two that makes them unique. However, I cannot give the game higher than 3 stars currently as it isn’t actually a nascar game. The only thing this game has is the same tracks that nascar races on. It has 0 drivers, 0 teams, no crew chiefs or spotters, the car models are a generic stock car. Essentially there is nothing nascar about this game. The only thing that’s nascar in the game is the title “NASCAR Manager”. IF the game can actually get the licensing rights to the drivers and teams like F1 Manager does, this game could easily get 5 stars. Until then, it’s just a normal sim racing manager

★★★★★ Was a good game

This game was amazing. I would spend hours a day playing it enjoying my time. After the last update the game has become unplayable. You can’t pass other cars. Cars are as fast in pit as you are on track. If you do download it be prepared to lose constantly and be upset that you just sit behind cars without passing. At this point sorry to say but its no longer worth my time. Lost time lost money. Update they have only made the game worse. Now Ai cars drive through pit road faster than you can. They are faster regardless of stats on track. The blocking makes you just go round and round lap after lap stuck behind a slow Ai car. The Devs could careless. They just want your money. Don’t waste your time. The developers are lazy and no nothing a out nascar. Ai cars are faster on track and in pits. They drive down and out pit road faster than you. The match ups guarantee you to lose. They give you ignorant excuses like we wanted them to ruin the game. Its a shame could have been game of the year. Instead going to be disappointment of the year. Don’t waste your time or your money on it.

★★★★★ AI Defending is broken

I’m not sure what recent updates you made to the defending but it’s not done yet. It might be worse. As it stands, I routinely watch my level six driver get stuck behind cars in 13th, 15th, 19th, sometimes second to last place, and we’ll just ride there behind their little defense symbol for multiple laps, sometimes that car, which is nowhere near on the pace will weave back-and-forth to keep me behind it, while I’m losing half a lap or more to the rest of field. It especially happens in the last three laps of the race. My car will literally just ride there making no moves, no sign of urgency, and it doesn’t matter if I have fresh tires or no tires, using turbo or not. It’s endlessly frustrating. no real driver whatever do such a thing. And turbo seems to be completely ineffective. As I can also ride on that for a full lap next to a car who’s not using it and never gain a single position, and sometimes even lose them!!! Unacceptable! please fix this!

★★★★★ Hand over fist

1st the ads. The ads in this game get about 5 seconds longer every couple months, not to mention you have to click 3 X’s and 2 arrows while waiting for an additional countdown for each. After that fun you need to close out your app manager that automatically opens. A year ago the commercials were 15-30 seconds long back when the emphasis was on the game and players. Also the game goes stale after a while because after a certain point it’ll take 3-6 months to upgrade a vehicle part unless you spend diamonds for 1 part, and oh ya, the price doubles with each single part purchase so to buy 3 parts, it’ll take hundreds to level up after the first few upgrades, so the 1st cost 2 diamonds, the 2nd 4, and the 3rd 8 on and on. And with the prize wheel they made it nearly impossible for any good gift. This game had so much potential but as with most games, once it got popular it got as equally ridiculous.

★★★★★ Great display that’s all tho

The game looks good gives a good representation on how to play the game but it doesn’t matter how well u play bc the other dueler is always going to outscore u bc they do everything perfectly 10/10 u can have one racer above both of their racers but if that happens ur other racer tanks the race and u lose u can pop boosters like a junkie but it’s still gonna happen u r set up to lose relentless games so that way u r tempted to spend real money to get good this is literally just like f1 hysterically bad if I wanted to play a racing management game that relies on lucky pit stops and against bots that rnt real players that r clearly way better than u bc if u placed someone up against another person races wouldn’t be so difficult to win but since u have no player base u fill it with unfair scripts that absolutely tank a player’s progress forcing them to spend money I won’t do that that’s a waste of hard earned money to be thrown into a pitfall of a game