Each with its own advantage and disadvantage. Where as Gear City has many more options (flat heads, T heads, etc), various forced induction and engine types, and sizes. Automation for the in depth characteristics for the engine designer and the intricacy of engine designing. I have and play both Automation and Gear City. Just somewhat flawed and not quite my thing. Personally I don’t enjoy it much, and think it has some kind of frustrating UI and game design choices. Yeah, it’s less car focused, and more focused on being like the tycoon games of old. Daikatana is an awful game - GC certainly isn’t. Calling his game “awful” is just extremely unfair. Automation wins in the actual vehicle/engine design department - it obviously cannot compete on the tycoon side of things yet - and, if we’re being honest, you’re only moving sliders about in Automation as well, it’s just visualized betterĪlso, GC is being developed by just one single dude, who has put a lot of effort into it and is just a really nice guy in general. As opposed to Automation (which I also love dearly), it is actually fully playable in its current state and, altogether, a lot of fun if you’re into the actual tycoon stuff.

It’s not awful though, not by a long shot. It follows a different design approach compared to Automation - that’s for sure.

Automation vs gearcity