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Production Line : Car factory simulation cover art

Production Line : Car factory simulation

Positech Games · 2019-03-07

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 18, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

9
playing now
82%
positive of 3.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 46 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (149 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 18,166 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 87k–209k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,483 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2023-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 37 of 61 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14014020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2322026-08-06 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 23 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 20 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$4.992017-05-192026-08-302017-05-19 — best price $15.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-11-28 — best price $19.992019-05-30 — best price $17.492019-11-10 — best price $16.742020-01-23 — best price $13.742020-06-15 — best price $24.992020-11-20 — best price $24.992021-02-15 — best price $24.992021-06-09 — best price $8.492021-09-23 — best price $24.992021-12-16 — best price $8.492022-04-20 — best price $12.492022-08-22 — best price $8.492022-12-08 — best price $6.242023-04-07 — best price $8.492023-06-12 — best price $24.992023-08-03 — best price $24.992023-10-25 — best price $6.242023-12-25 — best price $24.992024-02-13 — best price $24.992024-04-22 — best price $24.992024-07-22 — best price $24.992024-09-25 — best price $8.492024-12-02 — best price $24.992025-02-10 — best price $7.492025-05-05 — best price $9.992025-06-16 — best price $24.992025-08-18 — best price $24.992025-10-09 — best price $7.492025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-03-17 — best price $5.002026-06-11 — best price $24.992026-08-29 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
68.8%
earned "Millionized revenue"
19.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Portuguese - Portugal, Czech, Dutch

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIndieEconomySandboxBuildingStrategyIsometricRealisticAutomationManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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