GearCity
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. It has been discounted 106 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game ($29.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Production Line : Car factory simulation ($24.99, scores 38).
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 116 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
34% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
GearCity scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285110/gearcityReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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