GearCity

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Have you ever dreamed of running your own car company? Thousands have tried, and many have failed.

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Developer:
Visual Entertainment And Technologies
Publisher:
KISS ltd
Release date:
14 January 2022
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (11)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (1401)

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Description

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.

Recommended system requirements

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*

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

User reviews

Nintz
Recommended | 01 Mar 2026
234h played

It's good. It's very much held back by the financial and technological limitations inherent in the game. This is most noticeable when it comes to the UI. For example, you design a car. You, as a company based in North

Helpful: 31
『LiQ』Julius_Biggus_Dickus
Recommended | 27 Oct 2025
756h played

with the amount of hours i have in this game i have definitely gotten my moneys worth out this diamond in the rough. I picked this gem up way back in 2015 and i have played it for years. from being a teenager to being a

Helpful: 18
mae
Recommended | 13 Jun 2026
34.9h played

As someone who enjoys spreadsheets a little more than is probably healthy, this game is fantastic. It made me forget that my employer laid off everyone(including me) recently. I'm enjoying my unwillingly, but hard

Helpful: 8
Brutal
Recommended | 25 Dec 2025
93.4h played

Crazy addicting tycoon I have been playing back and forth since 2018(?). Fun mechanics - IPOs, stocks, advanced supply and demand curve, M&As, challenging and fun achievements. But careful sometimes this game can take

Helpful: 2
joker24jq
Recommended | 09 Mar 2026
31.2h played

I very rarely give a review even if its a goat-ed game but i have to take the time to leave one here. Really only 2 other games compare to this one for me, Capitalism Lab and Software inc. Less so for the latter. The

Helpful: 5
Jacob
Recommended | 20 Jan 2026
32.2h played

For many years I dreamed of a true business tycoon game, where you really can truly get into the nitty gritty of the business in question and Gearcity is that. Everytime that I mess up and go bankrupt, it's because of

Helpful: 4