Разработчик: Camshaft Software Ltd
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About the Game
Design the cars of your dreams, and build an automotive business empire with them! Choose to make cars that evoke excitement and set the imagination alight, or cars that are the literal wheels the world’s economy rolls upon; with Automation, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination!
Automation is an automotive design simulator, featuring vehicles and technologies from 1946 to 2020. Use Automation’s unparalleled engine and car design tools to create your perfect car, then build and market them to a car-hungry public in the Campaign Mode! Export your creations to BeamNG.drive (sold separately) with the one-click export tool and share them with others, or experience them for yourself on the road and on track!
Realise your dreams with one-of-a-kind car design tools.
In Automation, players use the comprehensive engine and car design tools to turn their ideas into reality; shape, cut, re-shape and adorn thousands of car bodies with a wide variety of lights, mouldings and other parts to achieve the style you want. Design the perfect engine to go in your car; whether it is a large, powerful V12 or a small, efficient inline-3, nearly all common engine layouts are possible!
Test your business skills by selling your designs in Campaign Mode.
Automation’s Campaign Mode starts in 1946, where players test their design skills in a deep simulation of the automotive industry. Build factories and equip them with the facilities and equipment they need, and research cutting-edge technologies to turn your fledgling company into a titan of the industry, by catering to the needs and desires of dynamically-simulated market demographics.
Export your cars to BeamNG.drive.
Export your creations to BeamNG.drive (sold separately) with Automation’s easy-to-use car exporter to drive, race and crash them yourself!
Compare your lap times against Automation's AI and your friends in BeamNG.drive with the co-developed Automation Test Track featured in both games, and share your creations in the BeamNG.drive Mod Repository.
Participate in Automation’s passionate and active community.
Automation has a large community of 3D modellers creating mod content for the game, with hundreds of free mods available on the Steam Workshop, and more being added every day. Additionally, the Automation community runs a wide variety of exciting, community-designed and led competitions, where cars are evaluated on styling, performance and other traits. Build a car and join the community today, to see how your creations measure up against your new friends!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, spanish - spain, polish, italian, japanese, portuguese - brazil, portuguese - portugal, russian, simplified chinese, turkish, indonesian
Системные требования
Windows
- 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.
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
- Processor: Recent Intel i5/i7 or AMD 6 core or better
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD 290x or nVidia 970GTX or Better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: System requirements for good frame rate Epic Settings. Solid State Drive highly recommended for best loading performance
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please know this game is great, but also greatly detail oriented. if you seek arcade play speed, this isnt it.
Very cool to be able to see the engine and car as you modify or add things to them. I'm glad they have a pause button for the campaign.
If you love designing cars you'll love think game, However the game still has a few flaws like the fact engine placements are fixed and you can't customize the frame/ chassis to fit some of the bodies from the workshop (unless there's a way and I've yet to find it cause im still learning all the controls)
Also being able to drive your creations from this game in Beam.NG to me is the greatest thing ever
This is an incredible engineering-level sandbox vehicle production game, where you can plan and produce engines and vehicles, changing details all the way down to the materials your engine and components are made of, bore and stroke, etc. You can make goofy designs and see how they work (or watch them fail with tons of graphs to explain) or try to recreate the engine in your car or anything else you can imagine. There are a bunch of people complaining it's difficult to use, or the campaign is hard to understand- if you're getting into a game like this understand that it's an investment. The dev has given a ton of tutorial videos available in the game and the internet is full of other gearhead nerds that have figured stuff out. If you're not afraid of jumping into something a bit unintuitive to create cool stuff and play around in an engineering sandbox, pick it up! You can also export your creations to BeamNG and test them in a soft-body physics simulation (though the conversion isn't perfect).
good game maybe try to improve jbeam for vehicles exported to beamng without modding because im stupid and poor and don’t wanna spend 3 months making a single car
Awesome game! There really aren't many other games like it. Only one I can think of is a game called "Gear City", which is better in terms of engine design (You can do electric, diesel, 4 and 2 stroke engines), but Automation has the steam workshop, the ability to export to BeamNG, and in my opinion far easier to use vehicle design controls. Automation is still missing one thing though, which is the ability to make more types of engines, like you can in Gear City. Once superchargers are added,
I think 1 cylinder, rotary, or maybe diesel engines should be next on the list to add. (Though, not all at once of course!) -Polybius223
it is a very realistic car simulation (car designer) i bought it myself, because there were videos going around that you could export your car to beamNG.drive, and i got it, and it is weird thst i can not get the V-16, but thats ok. The engine selection is amazing with no engine i have ever made exactly the same. All in all, an amazing game, get it!!!
Its really entertaining and fun, you can create cars with your friends and such and then test them out together.
Best car creating game ever, so realistic, so cool, does not require a powerful hardware, its great.
It's a hard game, but once you finish your car, you can export it to BeamNG.drive, making the game useful for making mods.
The bones of something great are here, but at this stage of refinement it's not worth fighting the bugs and interface to find it.
I love the game it makes it seem like your making a engine or a car in the area and there are so many options for everything I just love the game I would 1000% recommend it to a person who likes cars or just anyone who is just trying something different
Very nice design game, perfect for engine and car nerds. Awesome for making custom Assetto Corsa engines to import. Hoping for even more engine options in the future such as 1, 2 cylinders, wankels, etc...
Games good, would like to see older automotive tech, like the Flathead (engine builder, not fixtures). Possibly even add some not very well known tech like diesel.
Would enjoy more server car design challenges. Possibly run multiple at a time.
A very unique game which, when combined with BeamNG, creates a one of a kind automotive experience that cannot be matched.
I have created abominations on wheels, and I love this game for it, 10/10 will play until im 90 years old
game is great, just good luck running it on any kind of low end hardware
a bit hard to learn, especially the sliders. once you learn everything though, you can make the greatest engines you can imagine! to make cars though, youll have to learn about adding everything. definitely the hardest part. subscribe to grogtv
This game is great for designing cars. You have to select many factors in the car such as combustion chamber dimensions, valve headers, engine block material, fuel system, compression ratio, gear ratios, wheel sizes, etc. Then you set aside engineering time and build factories to produce the cars and sell them to market.
This game is very fun if you like commodity cars, and want to know the struggles of the history of car manufacturing. Be prepared for the huge swath of emissions regulations in the 1970s, it will turn the nice honeymoon period from 1946 to 1960s into a nightmare.
Best game for automotive enthusiast, this game has 3 things to offer. Either you could look through the fascinating art of internal combustion. Number 2 you can literally make any type of car possible using multiple different body's and fixtures to create your dream car, then export it to a hyper realistic car sim! And finally, the business. I'm not really the business type of guy but the campaign allows you to run your own automotive industry, so you can mange prices sales and different ways to stay rich from the 1940's to the 2020's. I tried the campaign out but sadly I am not such an intellectual. This game was worth it.
Fantastic game, extremely detailed engine builder and wonderful car designing. The community is super caring and really helpful, the only thing that sucks is the community manager MrChips, they have no sense of humor. Cars are extremely easy to import in beam and run very smoothly, DLC is worth it and would 100% recommend to a friend.
Still needs a ton of work, but i really enjoy playing around with my creations in beamng
If i had to say one thing to the developers, its to be less stubborn about the game's development and listen to the community more
Fantastic for making stuff for BeamNG.
Other than that the campaign is TERRIBLE. I don't think I've played something so unintuitive since shovelware text games. I want to enjoy it, afterall the campaign is supposed to give incentive to creating this stuff, but MAAAN. Holy hell. For starters the whole campaign is just a fucking spreadsheet, but that's ok, I know how a graph works and I can sorta read. So you make your first car, (the fun bit) and put it into production. "Putting it into production" = ticking fifteen boxes, clicking yes thirty times, and sitting there with the game on fast forward while you wait to see what happens. 3 years goes by, and you because you absentmindedly clicked 14 boxes instead of 15, absolutely nothing has happened, nothing was produced and your car is now obsolete.
So you figure that out, get production running, but now since your car is already 5 years late to market, you'd better get to work on the facelift model with an updated powertrain. Luckily that's the fun part. Now you fuck around trying to get it put into production, and sit there and wait again. 3 years rolls by, and nothing has happened because you forgot to sign some fucking thing off on the engineering side, and you drive your fist through your monitor.
Otherwise yeah it's pretty neat 8/10
Great simulator and generally very underrated if you have the money to buy it and are interested in cars do it
This is the honest review of a sort-of "veteran" player. I've personally been using Automation since 2019, and have over 350 hours on the game. Let me give you my full beliefs and opinions about the game, especially targeted at new players and/or potential buyers.
The Pros:
- Very in-depth sandbox mode; includes designing of chassis, engine, visuals, interior, suspension, etc.
- Limitless** fun and creativity within designer; a plastic chair with wheels? A hypercar? an econobox? Go for it.
- Car exporter to BeamNG.drive with ability to edit files
- Semi-frequent new updates and features that make car building more realistic and more in-depth
- Advanced campaign mode can be fun sometimes
- Small, but very diligent modding community with tons of choices and features
The Cons:
- Unrealistic values, numbers, and calculations sometimes; eg. 9000hp from a quad turbo V12 (just not how it works)
- Lack of a tutorial for campaign mode; especially since it is the most in-depth and complicated part of the game
- Absence of "tycoon" elements originally in the game
- Updates often break older mods, cars, and engines
- New features often take long times (very small dev team to be fair)
- Takes large amounts of time to learn and understand what different features and options change about the car
- Super time consuming to make realistic designs
- BeamNG exporter has improved, but it still lacks built in features; eg. making steering wheels turn, lighting issues, suspension issues, etc. (all can be fixed manually by file editing, but that's often for only advanced players who know what they're doing)
The Super Cons:
- Basically unplayable on lower-end devices (performance requirements haven't been updated in a while it seems)
- Mods almost required to make designs look life-like
- Tuning almost anything about the car is extremely tedious and often requires adjusting several options at once
- Campaign mode is basically just menus with gibberish upon gibberish of information, numbers, tips, charts, and graphs which when unexplained (oftentimes the case) can make absolutely no sense to players
- Making interiors for cars is pain in the ass, basically always requires mods, and takes waaaaay too long
- Fixtures often don't behave like they should, sometimes not even allowing you to make designs easily possible in real life
- Lack of automotive technology; eg EVs (somewhat supported), hybrids, diesels, rotaries, superchargers & other aspirations (more aspirations coming soon as of Oct. 26, 2024), twin turbos on inline engines, dual exhausts on boxers and inlines (exhausts updates soon as of Oct. 26, 2024), lack of creation of other vehicles; eg. boats, motorcycles, semi trucks, etc., and more major lack of features.
- Lack of technology, car bodies, materials, suspension, etc. past the 2010's (maximum technology year is 2020)
I could go on and list more things like these, but you get the point. Overall I still love this game and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who thinks they're interested, but maybe that's because I've learned to deal with the limitations and lack of features present within the game. If you'd like to recommend anything for me to add to this review, give me constructed criticism, or have any questions or concerns, feel free to reply to this review.
Thank you for reading my rambling,
- Griarsome
Highly recommended, if you're a petrolhead. Obviously, if you just want to make cars easily, this might not be your game. There's a lot of thought to be put into a car, whether it's all maxed out for drag racing or optimized for city usage. One of the greatest early access games I've played.
Cool game, don't like the tycoon and the main interface is really annoying to use.
The car creation and engine creation is really cool but beyond that there isn't really an enjoyable point to playing this game. The discord was also really dissapointing as it was more of a Lgbtq discussion page than a strictly car dedicated page. A page about a car game should talk about engines not about sexual orientation, regardless of what your opinion is.
Okay obviously this is gonna be a hot take, especially considering how many hours I have on this game but here we go.
Automation is my favorite game of all time, it takes everything I love about cars and brings it into a game where I can use my imagination to build whatever I want (unless its supercharged, or diesel, or rotary, or above the year 2020, or prior to the 40's, or hybrid, you get the point...)
However as I watch this game develop I see that this game will never be the amazing do anything fever dream I've been hoping for. In its current state the game is a buggy mess, the ENTIRE point of this game is to be a Tycoon, its in the name Automation The Car Company TYCOON. Obviously that has since expanded to a much cooler selection of things like Car Designer, Engine Designer, Multiplayer (oh wait that's been gone for years!), and Challenges (nope they yoinked those too!). Where am I going with this? Let me explain simply. THE TYCOON IS HORRIBLE, the further you progress the tycoon the laggier it will get I assure you. (Ryzen 5800 and RTX 3060, well above the recommended internals.) How do you expect people with a more "affordable" pc to play this game? The answer is they can't, and the devs don't give a shit that the Tycoon part, the integral point to this game is nearly uncompletable.
I have to ask, what are the devs doing in the meantime rather than fixing a CRITICAL problem with their game? Holding some cheap bullshit contests to promote their furry infested discord server (I'll get to that in a bit here), and arguing with the people who payed them their hard earned 45 schmeckles, as to why they shouldn't have to fix their game or take responsibility for the issues your customers have with the game.
If you don't believe me, all you have to do look at the comments in the Planes Trains and Aidsfest they posted a month or so back (its still top of the list because come figure they took the money and went to jerk off as per usual). They simply refuse to see that the fans are not happy about how they are doing things and make up every excuse as to why they shouldn't. We understand devs, its your passion project and you want to keep it yours and to do that you have to keep a small team of tightly woven people that coordinate well, but you seem to forget that we won't care about this game in 5 years if the updates are as slow and lackluster as they have been for a few years now. Humans don't care about cars like they used to and that's a fact. With each generation there are less people who understand cars to this games degree than the last.
The demand for this games expansion is there, can't you see that? I'd be 10 times happier to donate an extra $45 to this amazing concepts development rather than recommend some buggy trash to my fellow car nerds and hope your asses don't fuck up with it, and all because you think that its going to be better for the long term. Hell consider this a genuine agreement, if the devs put up a go-fund me I'd genuinely donate 100 bucks to it just to help get some extra help to speed up the process and help this amazing concept grow. I'm sure many other long term vets would be happy to donate towards that cause too. If only you'd stop bending them over and fucking them sideways, maybe then they would put on their pants long enough to break out their wallets same goes for me here. In my eyes the devs have officially lost my respect as the creators of this game and have become the vision of its undoing.
Now for THE DISCORD (dear god), may I just state that yes I am very racist, sexist, and homophobic (which gets vented into cars somehow), I hate all races, sexes, and genders (including my own) equally, this is extended from a prejudiced side of view and if you like "annoying wokies" then you can ignore this section cause then you'll fucking love the discord! However I must state that from what I've experienced in life is that most hardcore automotive enthusiasts HATE the exact type of people that are in the discord (and I live in one of the most liberal states so there's no shortage for diversity in the car community around here). WE CARE ABOUT CARS, NOT YOUR SEXUALITY! If you wanna promote your leftist beliefs please make a separate discord and promote that separately. Keep the Automation discord about the game, not what color tail, paws, and ears you wore to the local Harris Waltz rally. I'm honestly shocked to see that the devs had such a big imprint on that community and I applaud you for doing your part to the cause you support, but I'm here to support and celebrate the internal combustion engine, not what belief system you guys want to moderate. Maybe I'm wrong and everyone is happier playing the game than the Pillsbury Pastry Boy is when he's frosting up some hot butt cakes. I guess the comments will tell...
Lastly, I just to finish this off as a summary for the common buyer who stumbled across this game and doesn't want to read my entire rant. The game itself is phenomenal if all you want to do is build the occasional car and not take this game seriously, then on sale its a good scoop. But if you hope to be recognized as veteran at this game and want to become involved with the community as a long term player you are only going to be let down.
Take better care of your long term players devs, and get your shit together so I don't have to.
Love - Mr. Chips Hubby <3
It is the most advanced vehicle building simulator out there if you love simulation you are missing out.. no i was not paid to say this
make a toyota sedan sized engine have 1.8k hp. fun.
I haven't played any of the campaign, I just like Building weird, crazy and most importantly fun cars to fool around with in Beam NG. It is a very entertaining combo if you are into cars!
Game is fantastic for scratching that itch of just making cars or playing simulation type tycoon games. Easily my personal favorite game.
As someone who likes the management and tycoon genres a lot after seeing some gameplay I knew this was right up my alley.
The campaign can be tuned to whatever insane difficulty you want and has quite some strategic choices to make.
The car designer is very in depth and adds even more tweakable stuff to optimise your campaign. You can also export the cars to beamng drive allowing you to drive them yourself.
My current campaign playthrough is focussed on offroad vehicles which I test by driving them off a mountain in beam which is a ton off fun.
If you like cars, this is the game for you. It is VERY easy to work with in my opinion, and it's super fun. What's also great it the ability to export your vehicles into BeamNG.drive. The only downside is that when exported into BeamNG.drive, the crash physics of the car you made won't be great. Other than that, I rate this game a solid 9/10.
All fun and games until you design a 3000 horsepower engine that promptly crashes your game
10/10
The sandbox is awesome, since it allows you to experiment with making each and every car and engine design you can think of! Hopefully as time goes on, more engine options such as inline-2s are added since I'm a fan of small or quirky engines 🙂
The only complaint I could think of is that I wish that the behaviour of cars created in Automation that are exported to BeamNG matches more closely to how they behave in Automation, since I've experienced issues with race-tuned cars flipping in BeamNG even though the steering, downforce and suspension charts showed no such issues in Automation, although I'm unsure whether it's an Automation issue or a BeamNG problem
Wow, this game feels like its been stuck in early access for a long time. Still, for a game that's been around for over a decade now, its a lot of fun if you're into cars. The engine designing and tuning is a little clunky, but it works really none the less. The car design is more clunky, but its very deep. You absolutely can design some very cool rides once you get the hang of the design system. If you have BeamNG, you can even export your creations over and drive them around.
If you like to tinker, play something laid back, and you love cars, this is your game.
It Is an amazing game you get to build your own cars and test them in beamng drive whitch is so much fun
Great game with lots of detail, however following guides on how to build cool stuff (like max horsepower engines) from YouTube is difficult due to the vast changes between versions. Even if you try to replicate setups from older versions, the motor may just blow up. While some options are the same, others are completely different and downgrading versions to replicate guides is a pain, and isn't directly supported by steam.
Good game, the ui sucks and other bothering stuff, mostly when exporting to beamng.
Exept for that the game is 7/10. Not the best and defenetly not woth 30€. I bought it becouse i really love cars and for what i know there is no other car making game, in this style at least + i will never learn blender so this is probobly me best shot at making cool cars for beamng or something else.
I hope the single player campain is good. For i been waiting.
good game, should add more modern stuff including hybrid and electric motors plus bodykits
I like building the cars and engines though I am only just learning how to fully customize body accents.
A very cool simulator. The career mode is quite confusing to me, but designing your own cars and importing them into Beam is a great time!
i make cool engines, copilot and chatgpt say they are great and would beat the market. i build my own car and export it to beamng. i suck at racing and keep screwing myself up. but the fun and joy of having your own car drivable and made from scratch is the best feeling ever!
great game overall, get creative and become the new Delorean. (without the cocaine charges)
Got more interesting once i started doing engineering, regardless a amazing game
This is probably a niche game, but It's my exact kind of niche game. The ability to export your cars to BeamNG is fantastic and that alone makes this game worth the price, but it's fun to play the campaign as well. It would be extremely cool to see this concept built upon in the future. Maybe we could get earlier time periods with sidevalve engines and be able to play past 2020 with some near future tech in the pipeline. Overall, a fantastic game.
you can try to make normal cars and super fast cars but it is really hard to make but that is the thing i like about it and that you can drive the cars in beamngdrive and also you can make a company in the game and sell cars and just have your own company
This game is a must have for anyone who owns Beamng.drive. The controls are easy to pick up but hard to master, and it makes the game give just the right amount of instant gratification and just the right amount of wanting to improve.
Some additions I think would be good:
V-twin, v-four, flat-twin, and straight-8 engines
Diesel and possibly 2 stroke fuel options
Hybrid and electric drivetrain options
Overall great game
I've wanted this game for 7 years for just the engine maker. I feel limited a bit by the selection of engines, and by my skill at designing cars, but this is a must have for gearheads. There's so much depth to the simulations.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Camshaft Software Ltd |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 93% положительных (8689) |