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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

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 works
  • 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
Things to keep in mind
  • 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

What to play next

Top picks

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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game: 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, Expression, Fellowship.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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