Oil Enterprise
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 48% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 59 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Plutocracy ($24.99, scores 33) and Evil Bank Manager ($11.99, scores 44) both outscore it.
The drop-off
72% start to <1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 02:12 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very fun in a small space, but some problems exist preventing me from enjoying this game more: -Building placement. Spacing is very unintuitive. CLEARLY room for buildings, yet cannot place because of some hidden size variables. This is not communicated well. -Information. x does y is very vague, and the in-game help is missing for many terms, with no Google support either because of this game being obscure. Pop-ups...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A very barebones game, bad implementations of assets and AI. Very limited building options. I tried it a couple of times trhough the years, since the game released already in 2016. I bought it as an early access game in the hopes it would become a nice casual economy sim, but alas I was deceived with yet another milkcow of Astragon. TransOcean 2 Rivals (and TO1) is also from Astragon. Both TO's are based of Ports of...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Oil Enterprise scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/353630/oil-enterpriseReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.