Turmoil
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About the GameTurmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America. Get a taste of the rush and rivalry of the time as you earn your way to become a successful oil entrepreneur. As you make money digging up and selling oil, the town will grow along with you.
Lease land at the town auction and search for oil. Build a rig, create an efficient pipe network and bring up the oil to store it in silos. Sell the oil at the best times to maximize profits. Then buy essential upgrades in town to cope with rock, gas and ice. Acquire more town shares than your competitors in a bid to become the new mayor.
- A campaign where you build your rags-to-riches oil baron career and beat your rivals.
- Dozens of upgrades and new tools to improve your oil mining operations.
- Meet the town’s characters in the saloon and make shady business deals.
- Play single game mode to get one of literally millions of procedurally generated levels and earn as much as you can in one year.
- Steam Achievements, Badges, Trading Cards and Cloud Saving.
- Lease land at the town auction and search for oil using a dowser, mole or scanner.
- Maximize your profits by using natural gas to boost the oil price.
- Outbid your competitors at the stock auction.
Steam User 164
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 80
Those areas, they've been drilled...Yes, it's called drainage, Eli. See, I own everything around it, so, of course, I get what's underneath it...Do you understand, Eli? That's more to the point. Do you understand? I drink your water. I drink it up every day. I drink the blood of Lamb from Bandy's tract...Because you're not the chosen brother, Eli. 'Twas Paul who was chosen. He found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool...I did what your brother couldn't...I broke you and beat you. It was Paul told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground. Know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen, listen. I paid him $10,000 cash in hand. Just like that. He has his own company now. Prosperous little business. Three wells producing, $5,000 a week. Stop crying, you sniveling ass. Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli...that slithered out on your mother's filth...They should have put you in a glass jar on the mantelpiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli? One of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose....Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's the straw, you see?
(He held his finger up) Watch it.
(He walked back a few steps) Now my straw reaches acroo-oo- oo-oss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake!
(Slurping sound) I drink it up!
Steam User 49
it is financially efficient to spill oil and leak gas all over the earth. 10/10 accuracy highly recommend.
Steam User 32
10/10 game, although while I was playing I kept hearing the sounds of military vehicles surrounding my home. Would play again.
Steam User 20
A simple oil extraction game suited to the casual player, but with a weak replay loop.
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Turmoil has become my go-to game to play when something is on in the background and I need just a little more mental stimulation. The game requires no long-term planning whatsoever and the gameplay loop will really determine your mileage:
The base game campaign begins with you having no equipment, very little seed money, and overall does a good job introducing you to the 'upgrades' you can purchase in town. But here there's major flaws: The 'upgrades' don't feel like real improvements because any upgrade you purchase ($15K-$40K) merely unlocks the option to pay to upgrade that function in each mining session. For example: You pay $15K to unlock wagons which can carry more oil. But then when you go to deploy wagons, you have to pay a hefty $750 in any given session to actually enable that bonus. The same goes for tunneling speed, pipe width, silo size, and wagon speed.
In short, every upgrade you purchase is just you unlocking the right to purchase it again every single level. This makes progression feel weak.
Secondly, the stock auction in the base game is based on the dutch auction, which is an interesting historical auction method, but it's also highly annoying when you're working with highly inconsistent AI.
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I have spent nearly all my time in the game playing the DLC "the heat is on" which completely removes the dutch auction in favor of the traditional auction style. I also like that the DLC includes the expert mode's character abilities that add some nice flavor to the gameplay.
Overall I can't recommend this game to anyone unless it's on a good sale, and even then you must be ok with a gameplay loop that never changes. The AI you play against is fickle at best and will cease to be any challenge to you (at any difficulty) once you realize that they're not programmed to think strategically about stock accumulation or attaining upgrades.
Steam User 105
Graphics
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
Gameplay
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
Audio
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
Audience
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
PC Requirements
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ vDecent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
Difficulty
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls(if you wanna get all achievements)
Grind
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding(if you wanna get all achievements)
Story
☐ vNo Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
Game Time
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
Price
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
Bugs
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 53
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