Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
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Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is a simulation and strategy title released in 2015. Players design and build cars, managing every aspect of their company. This indie game has garnered 16,097 reviews on Steam.
Overview
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game is a 2015 Indie game developed by Camshaft Software Ltd and published by Camshaft Software Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 16,518 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Camshaft Software Ltd with publisher Camshaft Software Ltd is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 942,000 to 2.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,518
Positive
94%
Steam appid
293760
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
627
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0942K to 2.2M
units (median: 1.6M)
≈ $16.1M to $37.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game at roughly 942,000 to 2.2 million copies, with a median around 1.6 million, derived from its 16,518 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $26.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
54 observed days · window low $22.49Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $22.49 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $22.49 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationManagementBuildingSandboxAutomobile SimRealisticStrategyEarly AccessCraftingEducationModdableIndieRacingEconomySingleplayerScienceAutomationReplay ValuePhysicsImmersive Sim
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game sold?
- indielist estimates Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game has sold between 941,526 and 2,196,894 units (median 1,569,210), derived from its 16,518 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game?
- Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game was developed by Camshaft Software Ltd and published by Camshaft Software Ltd.
- Who published Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game?
- Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game was published by Camshaft Software Ltd, developed by Camshaft Software Ltd. See Camshaft Software Ltd's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game released?
- Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game have on Steam?
- Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game has 16,518 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game worth playing?
- Steam players rate Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game 94% positive across 16,518 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Going Medieval, Factory Town, Wrench, Kerbal Space Program, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Camshaft Software Ltd's other releases and Camshaft Software Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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