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Single-player games like Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey — Steam game cover

    ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Car Mechanic Workshop — Steam game cover

    Car Mechanic Workshop

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Homebrew - Patent Unknown — Steam game cover

    Homebrew - Patent Unknown

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deliverage — Steam game cover

    Deliverage

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2026ActionSimulationRacingSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Motor Town: Behind The Wheel — Steam game cover

    Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 — Steam game cover

    Car Mechanic Simulator 2018

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator — Steam game cover

    Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wrench — Steam game cover

    Wrench

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nova Roma — Steam game cover

    Nova Roma

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fabledom — Steam game cover

    Fabledom

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planet Zoo — Steam game cover

    Planet Zoo

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2019StrategySimulationCasual44.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terra Nil — Steam game cover

    Terra Nil

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anno 1800 — Steam game cover

    Anno 1800

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surviving Mars — Steam game cover

    Surviving Mars

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2018StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aven Colony — Steam game cover

    Aven Colony

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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 PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Highrise — Steam game cover

    Project Highrise

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

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

    2016StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Cyclist: Tactics — Steam game cover

    The Cyclist: Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.

    In this unique take on the sports management genre you create your own rider and manage your team throughout an engaging Career Mode, or compete in completely customisable race events. An intense, infinitely-replayable experience where you battle your own choices as much as your competitors.

    2021SportsStrategy17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →