GearCity
Visual Entertainment And Technologies · 2022 · Management, Simulation, Strategy, Economy, Indie
PC
Very Positive90% · 1,502
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About GearCity
Have you ever dreamed of running your own car company?
Thousands have tried, and many have failed. What made business leaders such as Henry Ford, William Durant, and Karl Benz so great? Could you ever accomplish what they did?
Now is your chance to find out. GearCity is a realistic historically focused economic simulation of the global automobile industry. Unlike tycoon games, GearCity has not been simplified. It is a complex, realistic, in-depth management sim that will take several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Thousands of players across the globe and industry professionals from automotive engineers to economics professors have praised the game’s intricate details.
GearCity offers a wide variety of design and business choices.
Create chassis, engines, transmissions, and vehicles. Manage production lines, supplies, prices, and employees. Build factories and distribution branches. Set marketing and racing budgets. Negotiate with benefits unions. Adjust dividends on your subsidiaries and enact a hostile takeovers in a feature-heavy stock system. Produce munitions and military equipment for governments at war. Let your imagination free and choose your own path.
Armed with its realistic economic simulator.
GearCity offers several maps with hundreds of cities. For a little less micromanagement, the game also includes territory based maps which are broken down into a few dozen regions. Each map has historically accurate purchasing power, population, population growth, inflation, interest and market growth rates. With correct settings most maps have near historically accurate sales figures, hundreds of static AI and infinite dynamically generated AI competition. All maps also include thousands of historical events that shape world and automotive history such as the Panic of 1907, World War 1, the Post War Recession, The Great Depression, and many more large and small events that will affect your decisions.
If you’re looking for a more realistic, modern version of Detroit or Motor City (Oldtimer), or if you’re looking for a business simulator as in-depth as the fabled Capitalism, or perhaps you’re tired of over-simplified tycoon games and want something much more detailed, look no further. GearCity will fulfill your desire. It is the definitive automotive business management simulator.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The game offers exactly what it promises. If you find tycoon games too simplistic, this is the way to go. It's one of very few management games that try to go really deep into the actual management. Taxes, loans, bonds, stocks, splits, branches, marques, sub companies, dividends, unions, competition and everything else you can imagine. Running the company is really fun. You will definitely learn to read the montly reports to find things hidden between the lines. The competition is real and not scripted. The economic situation changes etc. Designing vehicles and parts is pretty straightforward but it gives a lot of different strategies. Are you going to develop just one type of a part and reuse it for different car models? Or you want to design specific parts for each? Do you aim at luxury clients with high prices and low sales or are you going to go for mass production for casual client on minimal margin? Will selling cheap cars affect your company ratings and maybe it's beter to create a different marque for that? Are you going to preserve money or risk high by issuing bonds and hoping to increase profits to pay them back? Are you goind to go public and will you later buy back y…5 found this helpful
This game shouldn't be called a game! It is the most in depth simulator that I have ever played. Great program. Love it. (Once you learn how to use it) I highly suggest using the tutorial for EVERYTHING!1 found this helpful
You can use AI to hire employees and run your whole company. 10/10 Realism
Game is simply flawed.
Incredibly in depth management sim. This game is awesome and has tons of things to mess around with. Strongly recommend if you like management sims.
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