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Games like Automobile Tycoon

If Automobile Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Industrial Mogul, AIR EMPIRE: Airline Tycoon and The Rise of the Republic: The Path to Modernization — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Automobile Tycoon: Car manufacturing company simulator. Turn-based, fast paced, covers 100 years of automotive history.

2018StrategySimulation14.99 USDWindowsby Silver Lemur Games
Automobile Tycoon — Steam game cover
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Deep economic modeling with realistic inflation and cost calculationsEducative research into real automotive engineeringFeels like a spiritual successor to classic dos tycoonsAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked Automobile Tycoon also play

Steam players who put hours into Automobile Tycoon also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Industrial Mogul

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build your own brands, and compete in a living economy where prices are shaped by supply and demand.

    StrategySteam ↗
  2. AIR EMPIRE: Airline Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    1950 — you run the world's smallest airline, dead last of 19. Hire planners to read unsurveyed markets, send negotiators to fight for slots, price every seat. Each month's ledger shows exactly why you won or lost; each December, the board judges you. An Aerobiz-inspired tycoon.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. The Rise of the Republic: The Path to Modernization

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    The Rise of the Republic: The Path to Modernization is a nation simulation and grand strategy game. Starting in the 1950s, build cities, develop industry, connect markets, shape society, and choose your political and economic path. Observe the consequences and decide the future of your republic.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  4. Aircraft Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Build an aircraft company from the pioneering age of aviation. Design and test aircraft, source engines, negotiate orders, manage production and cash flow, and grow your reputation through every successful delivery.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Equilibrium Co

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Manage offices, stores, hubs, imports/exports and complex supply chains to keep entire cities thriving in Equilibrium Co. Expand industry networks, research upgrades and balance ever-changing and evolving markets using a modern, professional Saas-style dashboard.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  6. Texas Oil Baron

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    An oil tycoon where half the game happens underground. Scan deposits with sonar, steer a drill that turns, haul oil with your own fleet, hold it in a warehouse for a better price and sign contracts where every day counts.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Economicon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Worldwide Rush

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Ranked #8 for Automobile Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Automobile Tycoon

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Production Line : Car factory simulation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Automobile Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. GearCity

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Automobile Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Automation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Automobile Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Corporate Corp Incorporated

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Automobile Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Survive the workday in a satirical first-person workplace life sim. Handle call queues, manage stress, take suspiciously necessary breaks, upgrade your desk, endure fake corporate software, and climb the ladder one absurd title at a time.

    IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automobile Tycoon at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    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 ↗
  2. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗

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.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    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 ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Silver Lemur Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Silver Lemur Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Another title from Silver Lemur Games, the studio behind Automobile Tycoon.

    Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it’s the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous and without the need of endless grind to progress.

    2019RPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Stellar Monarch

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Another title from Silver Lemur Games, the studio behind Automobile Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Another title from Silver Lemur Games, the studio behind Automobile Tycoon.

    Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Stellar Monarch 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Another title from Silver Lemur Games, the studio behind Automobile Tycoon. Shares Strategy with Automobile Tycoon.

    Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. Great noble houses, usurpers to the throne, rebels, assassins, court intrigues, disloyal admirals, incompetent governors and ever-present alien threat.

    2022Strategy24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Another title from Silver Lemur Games, the studio behind Automobile Tycoon.

    Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.

    2026RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Automobile Tycoon

How much does Automobile Tycoon cost?
Automobile Tycoon is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Automobile Tycoon?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automobile Tycoon are Industrial Mogul, AIR EMPIRE: Airline Tycoon, The Rise of the Republic: The Path to Modernization.
Who developed Automobile Tycoon?
Automobile Tycoon was developed by Silver Lemur Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Automobile Tycoon.

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