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Games like Automobile Tycoon

If Automobile Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Worldwide Rush, Blueprint: EV and Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire — 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. Worldwide Rush

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Top pick 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 ↗
  2. Blueprint: EV

    WHY THIS

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

    Blueprint: EV is a single-player strategy game about founding an electric vehicle company and running it through six fiscal years. Make five binding decisions at the start, then guide pricing, production, R&D, and finance across 24 quarters of real P&L and three rivals companies.

    2026StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  3. Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire

    WHY THIS

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

    Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Railway Empire 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

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

    Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

    2023StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

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

    Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Railway Empire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automobile Tycoon.

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

    In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

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

    Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is a simulation game where you take on the role of a shipping entrepreneur. Carefully plan shipping routes, balance supply and demand across ports, and maximize profits to fuel your expansion. Build a worldwide network and rise as the definitive global magnate.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Computer Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro 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.

    Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 ↗

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. 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 ↗
  6. 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 ↗
  7. 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 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Automobile Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 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.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Worldwide Rush

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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 ↗
  2. Railway Empire 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

    2023StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automobile Tycoon.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automobile Tycoon.

    Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 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 Worldwide Rush, Blueprint: EV, Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire.
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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