Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
Worth it · Strategy · 2015 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $18.47. Typically $22.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.34/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 18,223
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $18.47 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.3h
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 15% off
- Steam low
- $22.49 September 2024
- Sale every
- 80d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 363 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 15 percent, about 11 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $18.47, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Project Hospital ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats GearCity ($19.99, scores 51).
More about Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
8 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 505 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $22.49 (25% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Ah yes, here we are. 5 hours of mashing buttons and sliders until you build something that does not follow Newtons laws, Just to find out there is not a single f*cking frame that fits your 12L V12. After you spend 2 more years designing your own frame you can finally start building the car, But whats that? Ah yes 7 diffrent warning ranging from your frame crumbling like a sand castle to your suspension turning you...
2 more reviews
This game is PEAK fr you have to get it ,like you get to make car factories in anyway you want. Wanna get a big market and sales? make cars for the market in campaign. Wanna just make dream cars? just don't assign them. this game is filled with realistic engine physics and a predictable market, even an online gamemode, and it has some PEAK music (for the theme), like a bit of rock, and a bit of chill, and to make it...
Great Game, You Can make basically everything. The car body editor is a bit limiting though so most of the time you end up building basically identical cars
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the 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?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/293760/automation-the-car-company-tycoon-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.