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Motorsport Manager 4
Playsport Games Ltd · 241 ratings · ★ 4.0
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★★★★★
241 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 47 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
34 negative reviews mention this · 72% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Quirky. Not a terrible game (when it works), but lots of times where you want to start a race and there is no ability to do so. Maybe I’m missing something, but I do not think I should be stuck in a pause mode with no ability to continue. As others…" - BiffBifkin
2
"crashes"
15 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashes. App now crashes on startup on my iPhone 15 Pro. Not an awesome look for the price." - Jockett
3
"play"
12 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Quirky. Not a terrible game (when it works), but lots of times where you want to start a race and there is no ability to do so. Maybe I’m missing something, but I do not think I should be stuck in a pause mode with no ability to continue. As others…" - BiffBifkin
4
"every"
10 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Failure to launch. I’ve played this game for quite a while and enjoyed it. No matter what I do I can’t get the game to launch. Closes every time after the initial login screen. The dev support email is also a bad email address, immediately bounces." - NismoZtuneR34
5
"crashing"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing while loading. Please fix the crashes on loading, it’s only playable after reinstalling. Thus loosing a lot of progress. Even after restoring my saves from the cloud, the progress is outdated. Update: 12 months later, and upgraded to an iPhone 17. AND th…" - Camshaft7
6
"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The old one is better.. This version of the game has a lot of tricks by the developers to try and get players to spend more money- like stunting car development no matter the investment budget, to force the player to spend real money. I had a team that won the cha…" - Thebestdanthing
7
"season"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "help. i was absolutely loving the game until i got to the 6th season and i cant open my save without being completely kicked out the app, ive reinstalled the app and it still doesnt work i don’t understand. if its not fixable i want my $11 back." - 🇱🇻🇷🇺
8
"race"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Quirky. Not a terrible game (when it works), but lots of times where you want to start a race and there is no ability to do so. Maybe I’m missing something, but I do not think I should be stuck in a pause mode with no ability to continue. As others…" - BiffBifkin
9
"doesn"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t load on startup. The app doesn’t load properly anymore. Particularly when you try to load an old save." - FAS1986
10
"save"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t load on startup. The app doesn’t load properly anymore. Particularly when you try to load an old save." - FAS1986
11
"work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Quirky. Not a terrible game (when it works), but lots of times where you want to start a race and there is no ability to do so. Maybe I’m missing something, but I do not think I should be stuck in a pause mode with no ability to continue. As others…" - BiffBifkin
12
"love"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game Crashes. Love this series and really liked this game but the game crashes whenever I open the app, hoping for a bug fix soon to get back to racing!" - SushiSan20
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Don’t buy this
This was my first time buying and I play f1 clash but this game is trash no visuals and terrible game play and I’m a iPhone 16+
Failure to launch
I’ve played this game for quite a while and enjoyed it. No matter what I do I can’t get the game to launch. Closes every time after the initial login screen. The dev support email is also a bad email address, immediately bounces.
Waste of Money
After spending an embarrassing amount of time in MM3 and an OK amount of time in MM2, I’m sad to say that MM4 is a waste of money. I can start a career but as soon as I exit for the first time, I will only be able to get to the “Start” menu before it promptly crashes and kicks me back to the home IOS screen. I have tried it dozens of times, deleted and reloaded the entire game almost as many, and still nothing. Extremely disappointing, especially since I’m on an iPhone 16.
Crashing while loading
Please fix the crashes on loading, it’s only playable after reinstalling. Thus loosing a lot of progress. Even after restoring my saves from the cloud, the progress is outdated.
Update: 12 months later, and upgraded to an iPhone 17. AND the issue is still NOT fixed.
Update: 12 months later, and upgraded to an iPhone 17. AND the issue is still NOT fixed.
Fraud
It crashes each time I open the game can we get an update please?
Facade
Game worked great for a few days. Had some fun. Now the game crashes every time I open it. Support options online all lead to MM3 pages. Can’t even reach out for a refund if I wanted to. (10-27-2025 this game still doesn’t work) you must offload the app and reinstall if you want to play. Garbage
Crashes now
Used to be great now it crashes on every startup
Game crashes on iPad
I’ve been playing 3 and then 4 on my iPad, and I love the game. However, over the last few months, the game continually crashes on my iPad Pro.
Crashes
Horrible! Game always crashes after one play through and no update in 9 months horrible
Crashing
Keeps crashing on startup
Constantly Crashes
Can’t progress because the game constantly crashes. Paid $5 for like 30 minutes of gameplay, what a scam. Loved the previous games, shame to see this.
Crash
Why is it taking so long to fix this issue??}?
Game is perfect
Game’s complicity is just enough, one more detail would ruin the fun of it.
Giving one star bcs it freezes every now and then.
Giving one star bcs it freezes every now and then.
Keeps crashing
App started to crash on every single launch out of the blue , cannot play at all. Reinstall doesn’t solve the issue, and made me lose all saves. While it worked, game was ok though.
Keeps quitting out
When you open the game it quits out or shortly after
Crashing
Played game one day then every time since then game would crazy on load up
help
i was absolutely loving the game until i got to the 6th season and i cant open my save without being completely kicked out the app, ive reinstalled the app and it still doesnt work i don’t understand. if its not fixable i want my $11 back.
Game Pause
Game pauses for no reason with no way to unpause. Spent 10 minutes trying including multiple shutdowns to no avail. Worst $4.99 every spent
Don't waste your time
Save yourself time and anger and don't install this trash app. It'll work for one race and then never open again. There have been bugs for at least 6 months. The game would be great if it worked.
Install MM3 instead and play that until they figure out how to fix a game. I'd give money to my rich Nigerian uncle before I give these guys money for this game.....
Install MM3 instead and play that until they figure out how to fix a game. I'd give money to my rich Nigerian uncle before I give these guys money for this game.....
Cannot play the game
The game keeps crashing every time game enter loads in. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded the app but it has not helped. Love the game when it works……
Broken
Game does not work, it freezes and crashes and is unplayable
UNPLAYABLE
Crashing in the process of refreshing a cloud save. Fix it. It has been an issue since December…
Unable to load saved game
Losing a save that was on the 7th season. All of a sudden the game stuck on loading the save. Tried reinstalling and nothing works. This is very frustrating
Game keeps crashing and forcing download
I have had to remove it and redownload it almost everytime I want to play, even if I had it open and need to answer a text, it loads and crashes. The only way to fix it is to remove it completely and redownload and even that isn’t a guarantee, sometimes I have to do it 2-3x
Love the game, but can’t even play it
I’ve enjoyed the Motorsport Manager games, it’s a fun thing to pass the time for me. But I got on today and loaded up an old save, did a race, then decided to start a new career. Along that line the game crashed and I wasn’t able to open it past the loading screen before it crashed. You can uninstall and re-download the game and the crashes no longer happen, but restoring old saved, swiping out of the app, etc… all being the crash back. Until this is fixed, and when I can finally play the game again, I’m afraid one star will do for now
Very buggy
Way too many bugs, UI getting worse compare to MM3
Games doesn’t work don’t buy
The game imediatly crashes and is unplayable. I would like my money back.
A buggy game with nothing new
Bought all Motorsport Manager games, but this one feels like a money grab. It's full of bugs, like disappearing buttons and app crashes.
Doesn’t bring anything new. Just skip it!
Doesn’t bring anything new. Just skip it!
Still crashing
Still crashing after latest update still. I want a refund. I’ve lost everything I’ve bought for this game.
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Fix your bugs.I can’t play this game.
A repackage of previous version
Need to address difficulty, way too easy
Into 8th season, I am making Red Bull look amateur. Won all races and 23 of 24 possible podium positions in a season in top division. On hard, with hard mode enabled. It’s not nearly challenging as I didn’t compete in invitationals and didn’t abuse contract breaking. Winning by 25 seconds. Same music as Mm3, same sound effects, background noise, tracks, cars, ”tweets” etc etc. Considering it is not a cheap game, and how little is “new”, disappointing. Can’t recommend
Into 8th season, I am making Red Bull look amateur. Won all races and 23 of 24 possible podium positions in a season in top division. On hard, with hard mode enabled. It’s not nearly challenging as I didn’t compete in invitationals and didn’t abuse contract breaking. Winning by 25 seconds. Same music as Mm3, same sound effects, background noise, tracks, cars, ”tweets” etc etc. Considering it is not a cheap game, and how little is “new”, disappointing. Can’t recommend
Crash
I can’t even get past the loading screen before it kicks me out
Disappointing
IAP not working. Really disappointing to spend money and not be able to use the purchases.
Crashes
App now crashes on startup on my iPhone 15 Pro. Not an awesome look for the price.
Quirky
Not a terrible game (when it works), but lots of times where you want to start a race and there is no ability to do so. Maybe I’m missing something, but I do not think I should be stuck in a pause mode with no ability to continue. As others have said, 3 was much better. 4 has better graphics, but sucks for gameplay. This seems like an easy fix, no?
The old one is better.
This version of the game has a lot of tricks by the developers to try and get players to spend more money- like stunting car development no matter the investment budget, to force the player to spend real money. I had a team that won the championship 2 years in a row and than magically my car was 5 seconds a lap slower. If I wanted a game that I had to constantly spend money I would just play the f1 manager. What a disappointment this game is a step back from the last one.
Doesn’t load on startup
The app doesn’t load properly anymore. Particularly when you try to load an old save.
Game Crashes
Love this series and really liked this game but the game crashes whenever I open the app, hoping for a bug fix soon to get back to racing!
I like it but…
Lots of bugs like suddenly not displaying a continue button or randomly
Pausing? Seriously fix those bugs it looks like The devs never even played the game!
Pausing? Seriously fix those bugs it looks like The devs never even played the game!
No inicia
Al momento de entrar en la app me saca del juego automáticamente, hay alguna solución para esto ?
Very similar to MM3, plus a couple bugs
As others have mentioned, it is veeeery similar to the previous iteration of the series. Some bugs are also present and quite frustrating, most notably only being able to do two quali laps. Also, in the pole shootout, every single other driver goes out right at the start which is highly unrealistic. The introduction of the quali format that is seen in most real life series would be a nice addition as well.
Move after two season no matter what tier or series
Well I was liking the game till I came across either a bug or something that was designed to happen but after two season in any series not matter what tier I go from having a 1st place car to a fifth place with 1st place designers and drivers. It like you can’t spend more than two season at any given tier with the game punishing you for not moving up and it’s not that big of a issue in the lower tier series but when it happens at the high tier it’s hard to catch up with out going absolutely broke from trying to get you car back to where it should have been to begin with I could understand if I dropped to 2nd or 3rd but 5th and it’s like I didn’t even develop my car but the top four teams under me got a development boost and where able to leap frog my by 1.5 to 2 seconds. Makes me not want to even play the game specially seeing how the last one that was released didn’t even do that. But I have a feeling it’s done on purpose to try and force you buy the money packs even after spending money on buying the game and the editor and chairman add ons.
Leaves a Lot to Be Desired as a (third) Sequel
Overall doesn't feel like a worthy sequel due to its lack of new features. That said, it's still decent fun as it plays the same as previous. A decent amount of aspects of the game that used to be excusable now feel dated or underdeveloped.
Biggest complaints:
The AI for competing teams needs to be improved. Teams shouldn't be double stacking or pitting the last few laps in races. They don't have any consideration for the rain in qualifying. This is to name only the most glaring issues, overall the AI in this game feels incredibly shallow. It feels incredibly cheap / unrewarding to win every race easily even if my competitors have a decently better car.
Upgrading could use a overhaul including more depth to it. Perhaps adding more give and take (eg. having better downforce / high speed handling could make a draggier car that's slower at high speeds) would bring more strategy into what you upgrade. Also it feels cheap there isn't a cap on parts you can build at once.
General QOL stuff with the interface and data visualization. Add interval timing to the race view. Make a line graph for track wetness. The ability to view the tracks stats and shape when adding them to a season. View other teams stats. That's only to name a few.
Team members starting to decline at early ages (especially engineers) is silly.
All said and done, there still is some good aspects of this game. I think the research / team staff overhaul is a fun addition. Also the mechanic for sprints is kinda nice. I love this series, it's literally one of the only mobile games I'd ever play, so I'd appreciate if y'all wouldn't just put out lackluster sequels :(
Biggest complaints:
The AI for competing teams needs to be improved. Teams shouldn't be double stacking or pitting the last few laps in races. They don't have any consideration for the rain in qualifying. This is to name only the most glaring issues, overall the AI in this game feels incredibly shallow. It feels incredibly cheap / unrewarding to win every race easily even if my competitors have a decently better car.
Upgrading could use a overhaul including more depth to it. Perhaps adding more give and take (eg. having better downforce / high speed handling could make a draggier car that's slower at high speeds) would bring more strategy into what you upgrade. Also it feels cheap there isn't a cap on parts you can build at once.
General QOL stuff with the interface and data visualization. Add interval timing to the race view. Make a line graph for track wetness. The ability to view the tracks stats and shape when adding them to a season. View other teams stats. That's only to name a few.
Team members starting to decline at early ages (especially engineers) is silly.
All said and done, there still is some good aspects of this game. I think the research / team staff overhaul is a fun addition. Also the mechanic for sprints is kinda nice. I love this series, it's literally one of the only mobile games I'd ever play, so I'd appreciate if y'all wouldn't just put out lackluster sequels :(
Still Intriguing but Needs More
Despite this ongoing series being intriguing enough to influence me into an immediate pre-order once I found out the 4th edition was coming out, I find myself dissatisfied with many features of the game and wonder what the 4th game brings to the table that others don’t. I’m still missing the ability to see what parts feature which car bonuses, which makes decisions hard when building new parts.
If there’s more liveries/series/cars available, I didn’t notice. The open wheel cars present as the same model from feeder series to the top ranks and all GT and Endurance cars are the same. Surely PlaySport games has printed enough cash to pay a college intern to model up a few more options?
Additionally, I don’t see much improvement on race features, visuals, or infra-season dilemmas. Same game just pay another round for a new app.
Here’s hoping the inevitable MM5 brings something new to the table. Maybe a story mode with driver/team rivalries etc?
If there’s more liveries/series/cars available, I didn’t notice. The open wheel cars present as the same model from feeder series to the top ranks and all GT and Endurance cars are the same. Surely PlaySport games has printed enough cash to pay a college intern to model up a few more options?
Additionally, I don’t see much improvement on race features, visuals, or infra-season dilemmas. Same game just pay another round for a new app.
Here’s hoping the inevitable MM5 brings something new to the table. Maybe a story mode with driver/team rivalries etc?
always craah when check previous year
and sometimes stuck in the match
Hooks you in then lets you pay more
Gets extremely difficult after the fourth season. Even with in-game editor can’t the player survive the negative cash stream and forces you to pay for the in-game currency
Love the series, but wait on this one for now
So I love the in-race gameplay, but I have a few issues: 1. In-app purchases aren’t working for me (gives an error when attempting to activate, AFTER you’ve paid for it) and the prices are wrong (USD). I bought the Game Editor and cannot access it. It showed $5.99, but I was charged $6.99. 2. There appear to be a limited number of modes and customization. Maybe that changes after you beat the game’s career mode or if you can get the Game Editor to work. 3. There appears to be no way to assign parts to separate cars (ie most teams have 2). Not sure if this was done to simplify things (which I would really dislike) or I missed something in the tutorial
This could be a 5 star game, but as it stands, it isn’t there for me.
This could be a 5 star game, but as it stands, it isn’t there for me.
Sentiment summary
72%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
23%
Negative (1-2★)