Oil Enterprise || Modern Oil Management Simulater

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Channel: GamingTaylor · 2016 · Gaming

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+ A pretty nice and relaxing soundtrack
+ A great tutorial, easy to learn, and the user interface and clean and simple
+ The gameplay mainly consists of building a pumpjack, refinery, pumping station, and storage unit. Once you have these you will start gaining barrels of oil each day which you can sell on the market or take out contracts. Contracts are far more profitable, but if you fail to meet the daily quota you will be hit with some very heavy fines. The goal of the game is to reach a certain amount (example: $10million), and you fail if you go negative $1million or stay negative for more than 12 months. (Which is surprisingly easy to do if you fail contracts. Overall it's pretty relaxing and quite engaging as you try to get the maximum amount of contracts possible without running out of barrels of oil.
+ Some neat mechanics later on where you can buy licenses to drill in other countries with different biomes and real-world perks like cheaper labor / construction costs. You can also build up a headquarters which are large research buildings that improve your structures. 

- At some points it becomes a waiting game where you just wait a long while for your contracts to finish, and to raise enough money. 
- There are some bugs in the game. At one point I had over 7,000 barrels, and it randomly said that I failed to supply enough for a 300 barrels / day contract, which fined me $1million and I ended up failing the scenario and had to restart.
- Feels a bit too basic, I would have liked to have been able to build pipes to transfer the oil, or at least see people working or transporting oil below. Even when a station breaks down nothing really happens you just have to wait. I'd also would have liked to have seen more animations in the building process, and perhaps more unexpected disasters or events.  Although these are just minor things.

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