Obscure
OIL.EXE
100% positive of 15 Steam reviews
- Released
- 2026
- Steam Deck
- Not tested
- Platforms
- Steam
Made by Subroutine Gaming.
About the game
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Tagged by players
- Capitalism
- Text-Based
- Trading
- Economy
- Management
- Idler
- Turn-Based Strategy
- Resource Management
- Incremental
- Strategy
- Simulation
- Old School
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