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Games like Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

If Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey, Car Mechanic Workshop and Homebrew - Patent Unknown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and whimsical. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game: 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?

2015StrategyIndieSimulationEarly AccessRacing29.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Camshaft Software Ltd
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — Steam game cover
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  1. ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    A professional-grade road design sim built on real-world maps. Recreate complex interchanges and iconic highways 1:1, engineer custom solutions with real workflows, and drive what you design.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Car Mechanic Workshop

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    In Car Mechanic Workshop, you will repair cars, apply custom paints, upgrade parts from the shop, and test your creations on the circuit. Expand your skills as you build, customize, and fine-tune vehicles in this hands-on mechanic simulator.

    2025IndieSimulationEarly Access4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Homebrew - Patent Unknown

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Third-strongest match for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

    2014ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Deliverage

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Deliverage is a hardcore open-world PvP delivery game where every shipment is a gamble. Fight other players for valuable cargo, repair and modify fragile vehicles, outplay rivals in a shifting economy, and climb from nothing to the top of a ruthless world.

    2026ActionSimulationRacingSteam ↗
  5. Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Car Mechanic Simulator 2018

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.

    2017SimulationRacing19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Ranked #7 for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Enter the World of Diesel! Grab some of the biggest four-wheelers. Trick these trucks, flip them for a profit or race against your friends online. This can go hard or this can go diesel!

    2019SimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wrench

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Ranked #8 for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

    2018IndieSimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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  1. Nova Roma

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Fabledom

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

    2024StrategySimulationCasual20.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Planet Zoo

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

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  4. Terra Nil

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Anno 1800

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

    2019StrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  7. Aven Colony

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Project Highrise

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Reviewers of Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

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Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

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  5. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

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    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Steam Engine Simulator

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

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  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

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  5. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

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  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

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  8. one night, hot springs

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...

    2018IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

Does Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game run on Steam Deck?
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game cost?
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game are ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey, Car Mechanic Workshop, Homebrew - Patent Unknown.
Who developed Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game?
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game was developed by Camshaft Software Ltd.

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