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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon 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?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
81 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Great tycoon game about running a car company and designing cars, all it's missing is a multiplayer campaign mode, the only multiplayer currently is more like a quick deathmatch. Please let us compete with our friends…”
“cool design and engineering game, has a bit of a learning curve but is tons of fun once you learn (personally use it mostly to build vehichles to export to beamng.drive”
“Very fun. kinda glitchy. runs smooth, even on a laptop. wish there were more strange engine variations, like inline and v-twin engines. also straight 8s”
8 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“cool design and engineering game, has a bit of a learning curve but is tons of fun once you learn (personally use it mostly to build vehichles to export to beamng.drive”
“I've always liked cars, but I have never touched the building and guts aspect of vehicles, and It has been a decent learning curve, but I am having SO MUCH fun now! building the engines, making the interior, realizing…”
“Very fun! Easy to run, and learned a lot about engines! Even more fun if you also have Beamng to drive your cars around after you make them. Would reccomend!”
3 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“This is genuinely one of the coolest games i have ever played. giving nearly endless creative freedom within the bounds of the game and the decently large modding community gives you incredible creative freedom and also…”
“9.8/10 Words cannot describe how much I love this game. There really isn’t anything else like Automation. Being able to design your own car down the most minute details, and then being able to DRIVE THEM, is one of the…”
“PROS : it has quite a lot of pros. good graphics, vast choices of fixtures, great community, good mods, excellent engine sounds... the devs are also really respectful and funny too. i also like that we can make our cars…”
6 of the 100 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“this game is awsome BUT i have two complaints ui-the user interface is very confusing to utilize in the game menu car development outside story-the user interface to access this is wierd”
“Honest review? 10/10 game. If I can make a metal box with big freaking headlights and a vacuum cleaner for an engine go Mach 2, then im doing it. Though interior designing could be reworked with some tab that is…”
“I love being able to export my creations to BeamNG. The engine making is incredibly robust and solid but the exterior and interior design is always a little laggy and very difficult.”
5 of the 100 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Very fun. kinda glitchy. runs smooth, even on a laptop. wish there were more strange engine variations, like inline and v-twin engines. also straight 8s”
“I really hate to give this a neg review but idk what else to do :( If you just wanna make cars to drive in BeamNG then this is great for that. If you want a car company tycoon game then...uhhh sorry you're just gonna…”
5 of the 100 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Very fun. kinda glitchy. runs smooth, even on a laptop. wish there were more strange engine variations, like inline and v-twin engines. also straight 8s”
“Best. Gift. Ever Let's get the negatives out of the way since they're the shortest Game gets a little janky sometimes, I can't switch from 1 car to another without it crashing (par for the course since my device is…”
“Automation is a great game, HOWEVER, be wary of the bugs. One such bug is when choosing a bodystyle, such as convertible, after choosing the main body, the game will crash. It does it more frequently with mod bodies…”
Counted across 100 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too…”
— a player, Steam review · 81 hrs played“The possibilities of making and creating your car from different eras utilizing different technologies makes for a infinitesimal game loop to learn more and more about it as you go along furthering your hours day by day. 10/10 game, would recommend.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“This is a great game for anyone like myself that has adhd and an endless mind. The game is also pretty on point with poper power outputs and problems you would run into in real life. Overall a sollid 8/10 and thats a good score in my books”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
New Automation Website!
It's been a while in the making, but we've done a comprehensive rework of our website, automationgame.com ! Something we'll be starting up is posting dev blog updates, as a complement to our Little De
Name These Bodies Final Results, and Giveaway Winners!
The final results are in for our Name These Bodies final voting! We received 1,383 votes in total for this part of the contest, which was amazing; we are very grateful for all of your participation!Wi
Name These Bodies Final Vote!
We received nearly nine hundred submissions from the Automation community (thank you all very much for that, once again we were blown away by the response from all of you!), we're down to a shortlist
Name These Bodies!
As part of our Steam Summer Sale activities, we're back with another community contest; this time, we're naming some bodies! We have a total of eight body families that need new names, and we're askin
Name These Fixtures Voting Results, and Giveaway Winners!
The final results are in for our Name These Fixtures voting! We received 1,752 votes in total for this part of the contest, which once again completely blew away our expectations, so thank you to ever
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Racing, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Management · Building · Sandbox · Automobile Sim · Realistic · Strategy · Early Access · Crafting · Education · Moddable · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Indonesian * |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://automationgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 - 64 bit Processor: Dual Core Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Support Shader Model 5.0 (Intel HD4000 Integrated, Geforce 400 Series, Radeon HD2000 Series) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 30 GB available space Additional Notes: Requirements for Ultra Low Settings. Framerate may be poor in some situations.