Oil Rush (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Oil Rush

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…

50 1 January 2012

What Oil Rush is

Oil Rush is an indie game developed by Unigine Holding and released in 2012. It is available on PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unigine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Oil Rush holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Oil Rush launched on 1 January 2012, within three weeks of Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Final Fantasy XIII-2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Final Fantasy XIII-2.

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