Pixel Car Racer

Racing

Ratings

Age

4+

Games

Languages

English

Latest Version 1.1.80

Thu Aug 01 2019

Update Version 1.1.80

• New Cars

• Fixed an issue with Leaderboards

• Fixed an issue with Cloud Saving

• Fixed an issue with Facebook Login

• Other Bug fixes and improvements

Pixel Car Racer is the first of its kind, a retro-style arcade racer featuring an RPG sandbox experience. Build your dream garage with limitless car customization! Take your ride to the streets and race your way to the top. Featuring over 100+ cars, 1000+ car parts, and beautiful pixel art graphics, the game offers deep tuning mechanics including dyno testing, manual gear shifting, and professional-grade liveries. Join the community and experience the ultimate retro car culture game.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

88/100

Pixel Car Racer is a dream come true for car enthusiasts who grew up in the 16-bit era. The level of customization is insane—you can tweak everything from the gear ratios to the liveries, all in beautiful pixel art. It’s not just about racing; it’s about the culture of building and tuning your perfect ride.

The drag racing and street racing modes are surprisingly tense, requiring perfect shift timing. The RPG elements, where you level up and unlock better parts, give the game a satisfying long-term progression. It’s a love letter to car culture that fits right in your pocket.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Feb 24 2026

Features

Over 100+ different cars and 1000+ parts

Drag and Street game modes

In-game Livery Designer

Realistic engine tuning and Dyno

Beautiful retro pixel art graphics

Active community and frequent updates

Tips & Walkthrough

Starting Your Garage

Begin with a basic car and enter Drag races to earn cash. Head to the 'Parts' shop to buy a turbocharger or better tires to improve your 1/4 mile time. Don't forget to use the Dyno to tune your gear ratios for the best performance.

Gameplays

Tuning and Racing

Players must manage their RPM and shift manually to achieve the fastest times. Outside of racing, the focus is on the 'Dealership' and 'Parts Shop' to collect rare items and build unique, high-performance vehicles.

Screenshot

Q&A

Yes, Pixel Car Racer features full manual gear ratio tuning to help you optimize your car for different race distances.

Ratings & Reviews

PLEASE OPTIMIZE!

Tue Aug 21 2018 omg.its.frenchie

I LOVE this game no question about it, I’ve been playing it for the longest time , and I’ve had my fair share of purchases in it... but I recently updated the game (low rider update) and it changed the way the game looked and was “optimized” for my iphoneX. For example before the game was fine and Bc it wasn’t optimized it displayed on my iphoneX the same way it would on any iPhone (rectangle display) but now Bc of the update it tried to “optimize” itself I guess and display itself on the sleeker longer rounded display and here are some issues that came up, first off launching the game , the game is zoomed in (to fit the whole screen) so for example the yellow Rx7 on the home menu is like half cut off and the very bottom bars are at the very edge of the screen, also if I go into my garage , the steering wheel icon and House icon and on each other, and if I go into the parts store I simply cannot click on any objects that are on the top of the wall (ECU, cosmetics, brakes, exhausts) and the engine swap crate barely shows up at the bottom of the screen , only the top half of the rb26 shows.... there’s more but hopefully this is enough to give you an idea of the really bad “optimization”... so I would like to thank the developers if they took their time to read my review and I would love if you guys would correct the optimization so that I could keep playing this amazing game❤️

Cloud Save Function is COMICAL

Sun Mar 19 2023 Daytona Dee 863

I want to give this game 5 stars for honestly putting out a very fun to play, visually good looking game out for us to play, I love that they didn’t try too hard on the physical presentation on the game and opted for the pixel aspect. Cars are all customizable with plenty choices of body kits, vinyls, hundreds wheel selections, exhaust set ups, and aside from what you can buy at the dealership you can get rare stuff in crates which I find to be another great aspect because it gives out cars that unique feel. But now to the reason I can’t give a 5 star rating, I bought a new phone and made sure my account was connected to Facebook and cloud saved, and it WILL NOT let me switch my $100+ million dollar account with an unreal amount of rare motors, 24 karat gold hemi motors, lt5 spoon motors, few hundred wheels (some costing $1+ million a piece, several exhausts that were upwards of $1 million several RARE vinyls that were worth MILLIONS. My parking lot was FULL OF FULLY BUILT CARS running 7/8 seconds, it’s sickening to know that the cloud save feature not working has costed me all of this. And the Dev has no way of communicating to help, I’ve wrote them on Instagram to let them know of the matter to no avail, I have screenshots and bank statements of at least $200 being spent with these people and they can’t even write me back to help me get my account squared away, and I’m STILL saying it’s a good game, I just want to be made whole for what I spent, it’s insane…

Insane game

Sat Jan 06 2018 MrKv2

Now I haven’t seen anything from anyone else but when I open PCR it takes me 1-100 try’s to get into the game. no joke or I can restart my phone witch “usually” works which hasn’t happened until the Christmas update and I can’t delete the game for how much money and crates I put into it and will do more because this game is insane and please never add names of cars it’s cool that way and maybe add a huracan, and my favorite cars of all time the FORD GT please add the mk ll and the 2004 and 2017 models please idc how much they are I will grind so hard for them and please addolder corvettes1970s, like a two top vette and if you added Supercars that would be cool with like a v12 swap even tho a lot of ppl hate v12s thank plz fix the problem and add more wings like a rocket bunny wing that changes the wing on different cars also one big thing is make a thing we’re you can download other ppls tunes and paints that would be so cool!! The last thing is please please please add conversion swaps from fwd to rwd to awd that would be cool and please add like a semi truck and last but not least add a more customizable wing so that you can color them and please and more wings also add those weird rims that were like purple/pink/blue that covers the whole wheel I wanna recreate a car from forsaken and I need those rims and the ability to turn the old mini awd thanks!! And keep up the work!!!

Great game but needs more

Sat Oct 07 2017 NemoALV5

Been playing this game for the longest and haven't gotten tired of it yet, still waiting on that story mode though lol, I feel like you guys should add full size/ single cab trucks to the game like Silverados/ sierras/ rams/ colorados 👌🏾 and I also feel that should add more weight reduction options like to swap out the frame for aluminum or carbon fiber chasis as well as when you apply the bumper delete kit it should drop some weight to, and you guys should add more differentiation to the engine sounds, a ford shouldn't sound like an LS unless it's swapped lol, and you guys should add diesel vehicles as well like Cummins, duramax, power stroke and maybe offer those motors as swaps in the future who knows, as well as add Volkswagen TDI and diesel smoke from the exhaust, and speaking of exhaust you should have options for side exit exhaust or fender exhaust or even hood exit exhaust, the only problem I'd say I have with the game is doing burn outs and 2-step, with doing burn outs, when you drive with full controls like the clutch and all you can barely if at all do a burn out and the 2step when I try and set it a little lower then redline and try and launch my RPMs just drop and I loose power other then that you guys have made a great game that can only get better just keep adding and building content 👌🏾

I really love this game, but...

Tue Oct 23 2018 Russell & Tonya

This is honestly one of my all time favorite apps. Between customization, tuning, upgrades, and the racing, it’s a super addicting game. The only complaints I have are in reference to the tournaments, one feature (or lack-thereof), and one bug. The tournaments are ridiculously hard. I’ve been trying to win them for days, attempting them with different cars, tunes, and as upgraded as I could get away with with car class ranks. I have yet to make it past the semi’s, as the other car is just. too. fast. My NISMO-GTR can hit mid 250s in 6th gear, has an insane launch, and the best nitrous I could afford, yet I can’t beat a 1990s soccer-mom wagon. Secondly, I really wish there were confirmations when buying/selling items. I’m not sure how many times I’ve ground for upgrades, and right when I’m going to buy them, I’m scrolling and hit the buy button on something I had no intention of buying, and don’t have enough to buy the item I did want after selling it. Thirdly, it seems like I occasionally can’t push the gas pedal. I’ll have my finger pressing on the button, unmoving and unchanged, yet it just lets off. I’ll press in the same spot or around it and it just won’t activate the pedal. ***UPDATE: 2/5 Stars*** Like I’ve said before, I used to really love this game. The grinding aspect has overtaken anything else this game offers. The parts needed to win the tournaments are too out of reach as they cost too much, and even at level 30, you don’t get jack for Hard-tier Mile runs. The tournaments are absolutely broken and need either fixed or removed, end of story.

The benchmark of mobile drag racers, but needs some improvements

Sat Nov 16 2019 Random_Lagger

I've been playing this game for around 1.5 years now on and off, and I have to say: this game is amazing. The car list is great, the customization is better than most racing games made by big companies, the microtransactions here are actually respectable (which is something that can't be said about every other game to use them) due to you being capable of getting what you can pay for with just playing the game, and even then, they aren't overpriced. With all that said though, I feel like this game is lacking in some areas. Late game progression is just non-existant, the car list lacks in some areas (supercars mainly come into mind), there's not really much to do, and the game always repeats the same song over and over (which is fine, it's a good song, and if you're getting annoyed at the music, you can always just turn on your own music in a seperate app). Maybe add a "custom playlist" feature that takes your songs from Apple Music and uses them? Just ideas I'm throwing out here. Either way, this game is, like the title of the review states and in my opinion, the benchmark of all mobile drag racers, it's just that some more bells and whistles here and there would make this game into the G.O.A.T.

Great game but I have a few recommendations for new updates

Sat Feb 16 2019 Titan-addicted

Okay so this game is one of my favorite racing games but there are a handful of cars that I think would fit good in the game and would bring some players back or new players to the game such as any variety of a Lamborghini’s, Rolls Royce’s, and Bentley’s. You can simply make a small difference so I still looks like a Lamborghini adventador but isn’t an exact copy. The game runs amazing and I’ve only had one problem and that is that the clutch doesn’t work and I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong so it won’t stay in but every time I click on it the clutch goes in then comes back out with my finger still on the button meaning I can’t rev my engine resulting in a slow start. The game is one of my favorites and I love playing and trying to max out my favorite cars in real life but as I’ve discussed before I have my comaro and my jaguar but I don’t have my Lamborghini. My racing experience would be so much better and I would say that so would a lot of other players would be better as well. You have the stingray so why not have the adventador. I would be grateful for any of this review to be taken into consideration, thank you. My best regards Paul/Sla$er

Very Fun Game

Thu Jun 21 2018 TNolan_03

Very fun to play because unlike other car racing games, you don’t need to steer so you can play almost everywhere, and there is intense customization unlike nearly any other mobile racing game. Even though the cars and parts are made out of pixels, they still have small complex details and that makes it fun to play. I’ve bought all the most powerful and expensive cars and best parts for all of them so I know most things about this game already, I just wish that they would add more updates with supercars such as Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s for people like me who have already completed the game and would like to have some more fun. Some other things I would like to see in future updates are new turbos and superchargers, new spoilers/wings, and new pistons. There is some glitches, not bad ones, like my app not opening but that might just be my phone. I would also like to be able to connect my Game Center because I don’t like or use Facebook. I am looking forward to seeing new updates and a “Pixel Trucks” game that I’ve heard about, I would spend hours on it if they make it. Overall, I rate 5 stars and I would probably rate more if there were more frequent updates.