Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

2054 hours tells its own story. Get it. It's great, and one of THE greats when you mix it with BeamNG

engine building is fun but, the campaign is not. it gives you a tutorial video and that's about it. the engine and car building is very straightforward and fun but putting them into production/anything to do with factories is not fun. its very confusing, poorly explained, and a loading screen between every single goddamn menu with the huge freezes when time passes makes the campaign a frustrating clunky mess that i feel could be straightened out into a very fun part of the game

I really enjoy the process of designing cars and driving them in Beam NG. The new soft body physics though never loads properly into BeamNG so I have to use the standard version

Played this quite a bit very fun with Beamng and if you don't have a strong grasp on technical stuff it covers it well. Placing items on the car can be silly sometimes same with some of the technical stuff is funky but it is very good. I would like to state the game is in early release at time of writing.
I do love this game for the varied features and the career mode was wonderful while in place. Fun to come up with cars and new ideas let alone maybe make an alternate history.

What an amazing game, to be honest this is my wifes computer since I ran out of storage on mine. But clearly if I am using my wifes computer then it truly says something. I am a technician for Chrysler and playing this and beamng drive with the cars I make here is a feeling you cannot get from another game, absolutely amazing. However, I do wish that they add certain features, although it may conflict with the tycoon part of the game, it would be amazing for people like me who prefer making cars and uploading them to beamng(the tycoon is also cool make sure to try the base game of automation) I would love to see superchargers and of course increasing or decreasing capacity in Liters. I would love to see electric motors for full electric configurations and also hybrid ones as well. Diesel would be an awesome concept it is hard making gas cars that run at 2-3k RPM and actually get anywhere, sure they make 1000ft lbs of torque but it acts very weird with all the new updates. And a higher rpm threshold beyond 12k maybe 14-16k for F1 style engines with little stroke that allows for such high RPMs, I can easily reach the 12k limit with the stroke setting at it's minimum. Other than my suggestions totally worth the money to buy this game along with the V16 DLC. Have fun

very good game made a lot of stupidly fast cars sorta easy once you get the hang of it really fun

All in all, its a pretty good game. It can get pretty unrealistic fast but thats the fun of it.

I tried to like it. I love building cars, and I love tycoon games, what could go wrong. As a tycoon game, the interface is just far too confusing. The progress of cars and adding new designs and manufacturing is too confusing. I haven'
t had the crashes or the glitches others have had, the gameplay seems smooth, but it just isn't interesting enough to make me want to make more cars.

As a Car building game it seems ok, and if you look most of the reviews say thats what people play, build a car and export it, but as others have said, that makes it a nice $10 add on for Beam NG not a full game.

This is a great alternative to getting sketchy mods for beamng and also gives you some pretty crazy creative freedom. I would 10/10 recommend this but it takes some time to learn everything that you can do.

Fun game, especially if you like messing around and seeing what happens.

fun every childs dream but a bit to confusing for me

Honestly very fun simulator, endless creativity and exploration. The data is kinda accurate actually if you put in the same specification from a real engine into the simulator but it will be off by a few percent. But would be nice if you could press "W" to control the acceleration and simulate changing gears so we could hear the engine sound more, kinda like what the engine would sound like if you're driving or racing it. Really love the simulator, please keep it up!

It's a cool game, I like the idea, but it's not simple and a little bit boring - not my cup of tea...

This is a very nice game to let your mind put its creativity in. It will take a bit to understand, but it will be easy.

This game is magical. From the endless customization to how detailed and precise this is, this is a game everyone who's interested in the world of cars or anything that lets them be creative as they want to be should try out.

you can create your dream cars make your dream engines you can click on the export button and it transports your cars to beamng drive or possibly others i recommend this game!:D

I haven't had this much fun with a game in a while. It requires being a bit of a car nut, but then, well, it's endlessly fun to try things, as long as you also have beam.ng to drive your creations.

All it needs now is rotary enginges, inline-2's and 8's, boxer 2's and 8's, v2's, 4's and 5's and 15 degree bank angles V engines. It also really, really, really needs rotaries/wankels. Also, a cooling mechanic for radiator size so things don't overheat all the time in beam.ng. Also, air-cooled. Also, better suspension representation so that I can build a proper oleopneumatic activa system that restricts body roll to max 0.5 degrees or can make it roll the other way if you want. In short, I want more options, devs, more than happy to pay for it in the form of a DLC.

Oh, and most importantly, make it so that you can let the body morph, height, length and width to accomodate whatever hair-brained engine I want to install!

Keep up the good work and gimme more options!

This game is great at what it does there aren't many parts to use when you first start but this can be fixed with mods plus I'd recommend for better interiors to try animating the props which you you can do in game with description, for more info on this search it up and you should find a few vids on this I'd also recommend the peskyboyz autobeam animation gen on Github.

The game has a lot of issues with exporting the vehicles. I made a really nice car, and when I exported it to BeamNG and spawned it, the only thing it spawned was..... absolutely nothing. Well, the only thing it did was remove my previous car and show up an LUA error that no one will ever understand. It is a good game overall, but the exporting has f**ked itself up. Also, when I made a test car to try if the exporting maybe had fixed itself (that other car was already a few months old), and spawning it in BeamNG crashed my game. I'm really done with Automation right now. If anyone knows how to 'fix' this, please tell me. And if the devs see this, please fix your game. The most important action, exporting the cars, doesn't work, for Gods sake. I'm not saying your game is bad though, you can make great cars in this game, but please make your export work again. Thank you.

i tried to return it to get assetto corsa because i didnt get it, but steam is mean. if youre smart you would like it

this game is great but if you have a low performance lap top this game is quite a struggle i mean ive played for over 90 hours but thats mainly because it takes sometime to load everything but this game is still good i do wish they had more areo parts and espcially more badges if you like to have aero i recommend you get mods but i deffinitly recommend this game

This is an example of a passion project. Although it's been in EA for 10 years already, development was slow and they've been talking about the campaign mode release for years, the direction of the game is good and they keep improving and surprising. For example you can export the cars to beamng which was never expected, they added interiors which was never announced and confirmed. I had my fun with it already back on their own housemade engine so i can definitely recommend this.

It is a very realistic simulator of the car building process. It taught me a lot about cars.

good game easy too use ui and great because you can export files into beam.ng i love it

its very nice and i like making ridicilous cars. but right now my game keeps crashing so im currently reinstalling the game

this game is avesome i played abit at first it was quite difficult because i didnt understand a thing now im working in a car project

Good and fun, even more so with mods

Best simulator game I've ever played. Absolutely phenomenal. Very active devs, the game gets better every month. Of dozens and dozens of games I've purchased, this is one of very few that I can confidently say is worth every single penny.

it is really easy to download, and i love that it works with beamng!

I recommend this game to other players because you can make whatever car you want like a troll car , a fast car or just a family car

very entertaining very open with what you can do just would like a few fixes to the Beamng exporter very fun cause you can do whater you want if you want to make a 70L V16 with 4 turbos and runs on pure nitromethane and makes 10,000HP you can!

Tutorial how to start up a successful car company: Design a car that is reliable, practical, cheap to produce, affordable, prestigious, comfortable, fuel efficient, has low emissions, quiet, has good handling, feels amazing to drive, and looks nice.

It's simple, isn't it?

a good game for ppl who like cars and specifically car parts (not models n stuff)

Make cars for BeamNG. Export. EZ

It's been really fun making a car, exporting it to beam and just doing different kinds of races with different kinds cars. The career mode is pretty good but can be overwhelming for sure. The good news is the developers seem to be really involved with updates and new additions. Recently superchargers were added for example. For free. Just because. Not $5. That means a lot to me honestly.

With the extra mod support, this game is awesome.

Very fun game with or without mods. very simple to learn if you have the time. When i first downloaded it, it only took me half a day to learn everything.

Played it a lot years ago, but the magic went away. I don't see this getting out of early access ever. The goal is too big for a small dev team like in this case.

This game is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! the car making process and engine making process is the part i like best about the game!

Really cool game, dream to make your own cars. Constantly being updated and improved to be more accurate

It's a great game but i use mac and they currently have to disable the MacOS Version due to a bug. Apart from that it's my new favourite game!

Very fun. Can spend hours daydreaming up new scenarios to build cars for, from everyday econoboxes to perfomance GT cars to offroad beasts. Rewarding progression in the campaign and almost endless possibilities in the sandbox.

Great game, the engine designer is fantastic and the body designer is also great i recommend downloading every mod on the workshop, the base game is good but the mods make it better

An incredibly advanced car creator however there still exist some minor bugs and quirks that need fixing.

Pretty awesome game! I recommend for people who are like GrogTV or just a serious car designer!

You should get it tho

AMAZING GAME!!! Ive been playing this game for about 3 months and i cant stop! Ive always wanted to be able to make my own cars and this game makes me be able to!

This is NOT a tycoon game. The campaign is essentially non-functional with certain basic features being undeveloped for nearly a decade now. Decent sandbox but that's it.

once you figure it out its super fun to build your own cars and drive them in other games

great game. build whatever car you want so long as it is the most realistic thing ever with zero artistic freedom or the community will hunt you down in the streets of Baltimore.
back to what i was saying, this game has a massive learning curve which requires as much practice as a whole art style. this game is also not half as enjoyable without beamng if you want to drive your cars, but if you are content to just look at your cars, go for it!
but this game has helped me out of some dark times over the past 6-7 years and i really have enjoyed every second of it

This game is basically a car builder for BeamNG, There is tons of customisation and workshop assets to use. The perplexing thing is it's about to crack 10 years in early access with no sign of it officially being released, yet there is DLC, V16 engines are behind a paid expansion...

EDIT: Thanks to the Developer for clarification on the DLC and pricing.

great game, you make cars and sheee.
will continue to play at least until i can afford a new project car.

dont get if you dont have beamng but if you do you know how good it is making a car with 4000 hp exporting to beamng then seeing do goofy ahh things then making a car with a regular engine then going into the jbeam and making sound goofy and also explode get automation