Indie · June 2, 2016

Turmoil (2016)

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Turmoil 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. Take on computer opponents, or challenge friends or random opponents in online multiplayer matches.

Indie releases from 2016

29 Indie titles launched in 2016 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume14.9k Steam reviewsTop 20% in Indie
Positive rating93% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 37%
Metacritic73/100Genre average 77 — top 75% of Indie titles
Concurrent peak767 playersTop 10% in Indie by live player count
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 60% for session depth among Indie

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Management · 357
  • Mining · 354
  • Strategy · 346
  • Time Management · 332
  • Resource Management · 330
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 322
  • Multiplayer · 311
  • Asynchronous Multiplayer · 307
  • Singleplayer · 306
  • Relaxing · 305
  • 2D · 293
  • Capitalism · 278
  • Economy · 277
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 270
  • Simulation · 267

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Hungarian
  • Japanese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

93%Very Positive · 14.9k reviews

13.8k positive · 1.0k negative

Metacritic

73/100 critic aggregate

Open Metacritic page

Curator recommendations

12.6k

Peak concurrent players

767

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“Turmoil makes for some of the best fun and strategic game-play in this oil tycoon game.” 9/10 – Fragged Nation “Turmoil is the epitome of simplicity” 4/5 – HardcoreGamer “I love it to bits.” Jacksepticeye

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

3h

Current engagement

Achievements

39

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJun 2, 2016
DeveloperGamious
Base price$3.24 -75%
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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