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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

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Quick resume

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?

Global score

94/100

Genres

Indie, Racing, Simulator, Strategy, Early Access

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    Pros

    • Extensive car and engine customization
    • Realistic and educational simulation
    • Ability to export cars to beamng.drive
    • Active development and modding community
    • Deep and engaging sandbox gameplay

    Cons

    • Steep learning curve
    • Campaign mode is underdeveloped and confusing
    • Performance issues and bugs reported
    • Limited engine types and features currently
    • Ui can be clunky and unintuitive

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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      "Focus is mostly on sandbox creativity and personal experimentation rather than direct player-vs-player competition."

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report long play sessions and habitual exploration, with many hours invested and ongoing engagement."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Some community interaction and Discord presence mentioned, but gameplay is primarily individual."

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    • Creativity

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      5

      "Strong emphasis on creative vehicle building, customization, and experimentation with parts and designs."

      Capsule for Instruments of Destruction Instruments of Destruction

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    • Domination

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      "Interactions are generally collaborative or individual; no evidence of dominance or power imposition over others."

      Capsule for Dream Car Builder Dream Car Builder

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    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game as a relaxing escape and creative outlet, enjoying the simulation and design aspects."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of intrinsic interest and passion for cars and physics, not obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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      "The game encourages extensive experimentation with vehicle physics, crashes, mods, and scenarios."

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    • Exploration

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      "Players explore different maps and scenarios, including user-created content, but game world is relatively static."

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    • Expression

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      "High level of self-expression through vehicle tuning, modding, and scenario creation."

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    • Fantasy

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      "While based on realistic physics, players create imaginative and improbable vehicles beyond real-world constraints."

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    • Fellowship

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      "Some community and social features exist, but gameplay is mostly solitary."

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    • Growth

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      4

      "Players learn vehicle mechanics, improve skills, and develop strategies over time."

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    • Health

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      "The game is sedentary with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and continuous engagement to design and optimize machines."

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      "Requires focused attention and active engagement in design and tuning."

    • Intimacy

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      "Social interactions are limited and surface-level, mostly through forums and Discord."

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    • Leadership

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      "No evidence of player leadership roles; player acts independently without managing others."

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    • Progression

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      3

      "Players unlock technologies and policies, progressing through scenarios with evolving capabilities."

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      "Players progress by unlocking technologies, improving designs, and expanding companies."

    • Relaxation

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      "Many players find the game relaxing or therapeutic despite its repetitive nature."

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    • Sensation

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      "Visuals and audio are decent and quirky but not highly stimulating or intense."

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    • Status

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      "Achievements and creations are mostly personal with limited social recognition or status seeking."

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    • Story

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      "Game lacks narrative or story elements; focus is on gameplay and drifting experience."

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    • Strategy

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      4

      "Requires planning, problem solving, and critical thinking to build the car correctly and manage survival."

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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      "Players feel the game offers good entertainment value, especially for multiplayer party play."

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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      "No survival or threat elements; stable and safe gameplay environment."

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship, Expression.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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