Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is a simulation, management and building game
developed and published by Camshaft Software Ltd.
Released on March 12th 2015 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish and Indonesian.
It has received 14,457 reviews of which 13,506 were positive and 951 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 26.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 - 64 bit
- Processor: Dual Core
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Support Shader Model 5.0 (Intel HD4000 Integrated, Geforce 400 Series, Radeon HD2000 Series)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requirements for Ultra Low Settings. Framerate may be poor in some situations.
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Timeline: - Purchased Game - Made a Car without watching a tutorial - Make the engine of the car (it knocked itself out) - Spend time making the fixtures - Become super proud and export it to BeamNG Drive (the game is compatible with BeamNG Drive) - Joyride - Close BeamNG and make another car project 10/10, it was a blast even though I didn't know how to play
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Pros: The only game where you can make a quad turbo 67 Liter aircraft carrier engine, put it in a Miata and then actually drive it Cons: In doing so You'll obliterate the physics engine so hard that your entire PC will melt and form a black hole. 10/10 Its peak
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I bought this game almost a decade ago. The developers promised superchargers as "coming soon". They came out today. The game is significantly better than when I bought it, with major upgrades across the board. The devs have a strong roadmap and a consistent track record. It's well worth the asking price.
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This is the honest review of a sort-of "veteran" player. I've personally been using Automation since 2019, and have over 350 hours on the game. Let me give you my full beliefs and opinions about the game, especially targeted at new players and/or potential buyers. The Pros: - Very in-depth sandbox mode; includes designing of chassis, engine, visuals, interior, suspension, etc. - Limitless** fun and creativity within designer; a plastic chair with wheels? A hypercar? an econobox? Go for it. - Car exporter to BeamNG.drive with ability to edit files - Semi-frequent new updates and features that make car building more realistic and more in-depth - Advanced campaign mode can be fun sometimes - Small, but very diligent modding community with tons of choices and features The Cons: - Unrealistic values, numbers, and calculations sometimes; eg. 9000hp from a quad turbo V12 (just not how it works) - Lack of a tutorial for campaign mode; especially since it is the most in-depth and complicated part of the game - Absence of "tycoon" elements originally in the game - Updates often break older mods, cars, and engines - New features often take long times (very small dev team to be fair) - Takes large amounts of time to learn and understand what different features and options change about the car - Super time consuming to make realistic designs - BeamNG exporter has improved, but it still lacks built in features; eg. making steering wheels turn, lighting issues, suspension issues, etc. (all can be fixed manually by file editing, but that's often for only advanced players who know what they're doing) The Super Cons: - Basically unplayable on lower-end devices (performance requirements haven't been updated in a while it seems) - Mods almost required to make designs look life-like - Tuning almost anything about the car is extremely tedious and often requires adjusting several options at once - Campaign mode is basically just menus with gibberish upon gibberish of information, numbers, tips, charts, and graphs which when unexplained (oftentimes the case) can make absolutely no sense to players - Making interiors for cars is pain in the ass, basically always requires mods, and takes waaaaay too long - Fixtures often don't behave like they should, sometimes not even allowing you to make designs easily possible in real life - Lack of automotive technology; eg EVs (somewhat supported), hybrids, diesels, rotaries, superchargers & other aspirations (more aspirations coming soon as of Oct. 26, 2024), twin turbos on inline engines, dual exhausts on boxers and inlines (exhausts updates soon as of Oct. 26, 2024), lack of creation of other vehicles; eg. boats, motorcycles, semi trucks, etc., and more major lack of features. - Lack of technology, car bodies, materials, suspension, etc. past the 2010's (maximum technology year is 2020) I could go on and list more things like these, but you get the point. Overall I still love this game and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who thinks they're interested, but maybe that's because I've learned to deal with the limitations and lack of features present within the game. If you'd like to recommend anything for me to add to this review, give me constructed criticism, or have any questions or concerns, feel free to reply to this review. Thank you for reading my rambling, - Griarsome
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master *Sandbox mode ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult *Campaign Mode ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price *If you already have BeamNG Drive ☑ If it's on sale *If you don't have BeamNG Drive ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 *Campaign Mode ☐ 7 ☑ 8 *Sandbox Mode ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is currently priced at 26.99€ on Steam.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 26.99€ on Steam.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game received 13,506 positive votes out of a total of 14,457 achieving an impressive rating of 9.10.
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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game was developed and published by Camshaft Software Ltd.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is not playable on MacOS.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is not playable on Linux.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 3 DLCs available for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game. Explore additional content available for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam.
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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game does not support Steam Remote Play.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Camshaft Software Ltd
Publisher
Camshaft Software Ltd
Release
12 Mar 2015
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