Oil Rush
Skip · Strategy · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 9.8h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 59% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 9600 256 MB or Intel HD 4000, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Castle Story ($9.99, scores 14) outscores it, and so does Rise of Legions (free, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
67 on Metacritic, 59 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
The drop-off
66% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I don't need it... I Don't need it.... I definitely DON't need it.... I NEEED IITTTT!!!! --> Human reaction to Oil after they cause Terra to become an even bigger Ocean world The Oil must flow, 7/10
Oil Rush is a real-time strategy game developed and published by Unigine Corp. that explores a unique vision of a post-apocalyptic future where rising oceans have swallowed most of the planet. In this flooded world, humanity survives on scattered platforms, industrial outposts, and fortified naval installations while competing for control of the last remaining oil reserves. By shifting the traditional RTS...
I know this game is more or less dead, however for anyone in the future who ever reads this. It is a good and unique game. I would love to see a reborn version of it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Oil Rush scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/200390/oil-rushThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6.
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