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Oil Rush cover art

Oil Rush

UNIGINE · 2012-01-25

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 25, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 25, 2012 (Linux), Jan 25, 2012 (Mac), 2012 (PlayStation 3)

Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.

Oil Rush is a free-to-play Indie and Strategy game released in 2012, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (59% of 545 reviews).

2
playing now
59%
positive of 545 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
58/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Oil Rush is a tower defense real-time strategy game developed by UNIGINE Holding S.à r.l. using their Unigine engine technology. Set in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world, the game consists of players fighting over control of the world's last remaining oil reserves. The game was released as a digital download for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $2.49 at GreenManGaming (2014-12-20) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.68$0.002015-01-012022-01-212015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-19 — best price $12.492015-01-28 — best price $12.492015-02-12 — best price $10.452015-03-04 — best price $9.992015-03-12 — best price $11.952015-03-28 — best price $9.252015-04-03 — best price $9.592015-04-13 — best price $15.992015-04-18 — best price $15.862015-04-30 — best price $24.662015-05-12 — best price $9.802015-05-27 — best price $9.522015-07-08 — best price $24.682015-07-14 — best price $9.572015-07-21 — best price $2.492015-07-29 — best price $14.952015-09-12 — best price $14.992016-01-04 — best price $19.992016-04-21 — best price $15.992016-07-07 — best price $20.612016-08-05 — best price $8.992016-11-22 — best price $3.752017-03-30 — best price $4.992017-07-22 — best price $12.862017-07-28 — best price $14.472018-07-17 — best price $7.992022-01-21 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2112026-06-01 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 3 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 6 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 13 pageviews2026-06-29 — 3 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-15 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 10 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 21 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 19 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 pageviews2026-09-01 — 7 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 4 pageviews2026-09-13 — 9 pageviews2026-09-17 — 12 pageviews2026-09-21 — 3 pageviews2026-09-25 — 10 pageviews2026-09-29 — 9 pageviews2026-10-03 — 10 pageviews2026-10-07 — 6 pageviews2026-10-10 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
65.5%
earned "Fresh meat"
3.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsSteam Leaderboards2 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2012-05-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,5032%40

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RTSIndieNavalStrategyDystopian MultiplayerSingleplayerTower DefensePost-apocalyptic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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