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GearCity
Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?
- Last tracked players
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- All-time peak
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- Steam reviews
- 89.2% positive 1,401 reviews · via SteamSpy
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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.
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Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: XP
- Processor: 1.2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 128 MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 32-Bit Version
Recommended
Recommended:- OS *: Windows 7 64-Bit
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 64-Bit Version
macOS
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: OSX 10.7
- Processor: 1.2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 128 MB
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 32-Bit Version. The 32-Bit Version is avaliable for 64-bit OSX in the Steam Beta's Tabs.
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: OSX 10.12
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 64-Bit Version. The game requires OpenGL support. May require whitelisting in Gatekeeper.
Linux
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: 32-Bit with glibc 2.17 or higher
- Processor: 1.2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 128MB with OpenGL 1.2 Support
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 32-Bit Version
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: 64-Bit with glibc 2.19 or higher
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512MB with OpenGL 2.0 Support
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 64-Bit Version
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Visual Entertainment And Technologies
- Brazilian rating
- l
- Steam Germany rating
- 0
- Achievements
- 115
- Features
- Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English*, French, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, German
*languages with full audio support - Website
- Official website ↗
- Support
- [email protected] Support site ↗
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features
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Structured language support (5)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| Japanese | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese - Portugal | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
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Value Score
Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 94th percentile. Priced as Market at $19.99.
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