Turmoil
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.2475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.69/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 16,221
- Critics
- 73 players 20 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.7h
- To 100%
- 23.9h 3.1x the story
- Achievements
- 39
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2021
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 110 now
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.54 BANGER line 73 times.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Parkitect ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator ($24.99, scores 47).
More about Turmoil
73 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 870 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
7.7 hours to finish it, 24 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 18 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Im a family man. I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Turmoil scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/361280/turmoilReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.