The Game Census
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GearCity

Visual Entertainment And Technologies · 2022-01-14

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 30, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 30, 2014 (Mac), May 30, 2014 (Linux)

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?

39
playing now
90%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

39 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 20% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–68k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,505 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$11.99-40%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Humble Store (2015-04-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 36 of 59 observed days · $4.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

42142026-08-12 00:00 — 19 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 24 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 21 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 28 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 25 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 27 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 27 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 21 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 26 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 25 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 34 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 18 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 33 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 40 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 21 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 26 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 40 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 28 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 23 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 38 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 35 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 31 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 42 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$7.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $11.992015-06-29 — best price $15.992016-01-11 — best price $15.992016-06-23 — best price $12.742016-11-29 — best price $14.992017-05-11 — best price $10.042017-11-16 — best price $11.242018-04-23 — best price $12.742018-09-17 — best price $12.742018-12-20 — best price $12.742019-04-29 — best price $14.992019-08-29 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-04-20 — best price $15.992020-08-10 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $14.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $19.992022-01-21 — best price $19.992022-08-15 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $13.992023-04-24 — best price $19.992023-08-21 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $13.992024-01-24 — best price $19.992024-03-18 — best price $12.992024-05-15 — best price $19.992024-08-14 — best price $13.992024-10-28 — best price $13.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-03-11 — best price $12.992025-05-05 — best price $19.992025-07-23 — best price $19.992025-09-11 — best price $19.992025-10-20 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-02-20 — best price $11.992026-04-30 — best price $19.992026-07-17 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
33.6%
earned "50%+ Effective Marketing"
7.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4550%115

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieRetroEconomyBuildingStrategyEducationRealisticCapitalismManagementOld School

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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