GearCity

GearCity

Released Jan 2022

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?

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Evaluation

GearCity launched out of Early Access on January 14, 2022, after 12 years of development. At launch, the developer announced that continuous development was ending, but pledged ongoing bug fixes and support, and outlined plans for a community-funded "Feature Bounty" system to add content post-release. That Feature Bounty system became a real free DLC called **GearCity: 2nd Gear**. As of a September 21, 2024 developer post, the DLC was approximately 50% complete. At that time, the developer also announced they were pausing GearCity work to focus on their next game (AeroMogul), with plans to resume GearCity DLC development in spring 2025. A bug fix patch followed on January 27, 2026 — the most recent developer communication — but it contained no update on the DLC's progress. The game continues to receive occasional bug fixes, and the developer remains reachable. However, the promised spring 2025 resumption of DLC work has passed with no public update on where GearCity: 2nd Gear stands. It's unclear whether development has continued, stalled, or been quietly deprioritized in favor of AeroMogul.
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Developer states GearCity: 2nd Gear is approximately 50% complete. Plans to pause DLC work by end of 2024 to focus on AeroMogul, with GearCity work expected to resume in spring 2025.
news post · Sep 21, 2024 source content planned
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Developer confirms crowdfunded DLC is in progress and being released for free when complete. Community contributors are voting on the feature set for the 4th update of the DLC.
news post · May 11, 2024 source content planned
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Details

Publisher
Visual Entertainment And Technologies
Achievements
115
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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