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Oil Baron cover art

Oil Baron

GiBar · RoBot · 2018-09-20

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 20, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The game has 7 locations with special tasks. You must fulfill them until the end of the day. It can be used to collect N amount of oil or earn several thousand $. To start playing, you need to choose the complexity of the game. There are 5 difficulty levels (easy-normal-difficult-very complicated-insane).

Oil Baron is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2018, priced at $0.49, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (37% of 49 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-05

37%
positive of 49 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
−51% · $0.49
was $0.99
steam price (US) · on sale

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 49,616 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182026Week of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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