The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition Reviews

This is a multitasking game primarily. It is a series of minigames where you have to keep track of the other minigames and few things are automated. It is quite fun and cleverly made and the level up system makes you earn more money while increasing the pace of the multitasking. Definitely recommend it as a challenging game, given the fair pricetag. But as I said, it's a multitasking game, not a business game nor a strategy game.

This game is an interesting and mostly well-crafted challenge which is only good for a few nights of gameplay. For me, the game wore out its welcome long before the finish. There simply isn't enough variety there to sustain it. You can unlock every type of oil machine relatively early in the game, and there's really no-where to go after that. Every new island is more or less the same as the last. Once you have a good strategy established, there's really no incentive to change. You just keep rapidly clicking the same things every day and watch a number increase until you're done. You can buy upgrades to your machine, but that just makes them do the same things faster while taking less damage - no additional features or interesting new mechanics become available. The strategic aspect of selling your oil reserves at an opportune market price is also broken imo.. The amount of oil you can store is so small that you're forced to sell it whenever you can. It just becomes another thing to rapidly click on. I love little indie games like this, but can't recommend this one.

I'm surprised that no one in the review section has mentioned that this game feels like a poorly ported tablet to PC game. Pixelated resolution / crap options menu, no key bindings, unnecessary mouse clicking, '1 hour remaining' message obscuring your way while your trying to play, setting speeds on the machine which reset every day (where the hell is the 'set to max speed' button on here). This either needs patches or mods in order to make it an actual PC game. If your going to play through this tablet like-game then use the 'Control Panel\Ease of Access\Ease of Access Center\Make the mouse easier' option so that you can use your keyboard instead of giving yourself repetitive strain injury from left clicking. A mouse with turbo click or turbo click program will help ALOT!

Played for a bit, made so much oil that the U.S. Army invaded my steam account! 11/10 would have the U.S. army bless my steam account with democarcy again. Serious review: At first, I only bought the game to make a funny review, but this game is good and deserves some real insight: STORY: The game is about going to abandoned islands with oil extracting equipment on it. Each time you reach an island, you get an objective such as produce and sell x barrels of oil in y days, or make z amount of money from selling oil in y days. After y days, you either fail or succed. In either cases, you move on to a new island, if you succed you get bonus cash per day for the rest of your compaign, or royalties. GAMEPLAY: You manage up to 4 different types of machines, at the same time, and each one of them has its own method of operation. you can have 2 and maybe more of the same machine on one island. The machines produce oil depending on how well you manage them, and they are prone to get damaged. If you put too much stress on a machine, you'll be forced to repair it, which leads to a handful of mini-games to make your repairs. The main goal is to produce and sell oil barrels. DIFFICULTY: This game is not for multitaskers. It wants your undevided attention, and some times your soul. It's not hard by any means, but it gets hectic when you have to manage 4 different types of oil producing machines at the same time. SOUNDTRACK: The music is fine and you can hear it for hours without problems. However, the alert sounds can be confusing sometimes. SCORE: 7.9 / 10 Very decent for its pricetag, although some sounds and interface issues should be fixed.

The Oil Blue really surprised me. I didn't know what to expect, and one of the reasons I purchased it was the obvious amount of meticulous work that went into the re-release of this game on Steam and the troubleshooting guide that you'll find on this game's Steam page. You'll only point and click with your mouse, operating oil-producing machinces, then selling your oil barrels on the market, but somehow the action is incredibly compelling. It's very hard to describe why this game is so atmospheric, but for a few dollars you'll get a great little game. I highly recommend this game!

I watched someone play this game before buying it. They said it was relaxing. [b]This game is nothing short of absolute chaos,[/b] But it's a fun chaos. The kind of chaos where if your concentration happens to slip at any point, or if you're not in complete control, your entire flow is thrown into jeopardy, and in turn you risk jeopardizing your assigned task, or at the very least making it much more difficult for you to hit your objective. As a result, there will be doubt at the end of each work day. Failure is not an option at any point here. The kind of chaos where you're constantly second guessing yourself... 'Did I check that already?' 'Can I leave that alone?' 'Should I power that down now? or wait?' 'What about this, should I use this? Or will it be too much?' 'Did I sell those barrels left over from the day before already? Should I do that now or wait until the market's better?' Until it all stops... And the work day is finally over. The kind of chaos where you're running around yelling and screaming at bells and whistles while various bells and whistles are yelling and screaming back at you. You can imagine your character scrambling to hit this button, release pressure on this machine, start transferring oil from that machine, fiddle with this other machine. 10/10 Micromanaging is tough Note: In the video I watched, the guy said it would be very cool to see this game in a touchscreen environment, which I can agree with. I personally think a VR environment would also be really cool, albeit it might be a stretch to implement. Special VR version perhaps?

[h1]TL;DR[/h1] For people who enjoy hardcore clicker games: 4/10: Will gladly [i]drill, baby, drill[/i], but a point had to be deducted for the resolution not being optimized for modern monitors. (i.e. Steam abandonware.) For people who enjoy managmeent sims: 3/10: The game is deceptively flagged for [i]strategy[/i] and [i]managemet[/i]. The only "strategy" to speak of is the order in which the player operates machinery and sells oil. The only "management" the player will be doing is managing their ulcer from trying to play a bunch of clicker games at the same time. Groundwell operation and selling large volumes of oil may wear out the player's left mouse button. [h1]Overview[/h1] Someone has a messed up idea as to what a management sim should be. Rather than having to make decisions and boss people around, [i]The Oil Blue[/i] instead expects players to do all of the work drilling for oil. Drilling for oil is great, right? Not in this game. The player has as many as four varieties of oil machinery to pump oil with, and while the mini-games are alright in themselves, the player will become overwhelmed on the third island once the quota jumps, and the player finds themselves struggling to watch a piece of machinery for long enough in order to press the [i]pressure release[/i] button to minimize stress to the machine in question. [h1]Graphics and Sound[/h1] Graphics are basic, and while the control panels set the mood, there's just nothing that stands out as special. While the Steam overlay does work with the game for taking screenshots, the screenshots have an odd look and alt-tabbing to get to the overlay doesn't quite work right. (Players will have to upload screenshots from the game library in the Steam launcher.) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2756556550 The sounds are all basic, and there's nothing special nor game-breaking about the sound effects heard in the game. For some reason, there's no loud mechanical sounds whenever machinery breaks. [h1]Positives[/h1] A management game involving drilling for oil is something the gaming market needs, but this obviously isn't this game. but this may be moot since [i]The Oil Blue[/i] is not really a management game. However, the way the game makes the player see dollar signs and try their hardest to make as much money from islands as possible is the mark of any game that holds ol' Il Pallino's interests. [h1]Negatives[/h1] Is there anything worse than a developer who sells old games on Steam that aren't optimized for modern computers and/or modern monitor resolutions? Maybe BCH Waves Studio made the worst visual novels of all time, but they don't count since they were banned from Steam. Click on groundwell(s) to start, click on the oil derrick(s) to start, click on pumpjack(s) to start, click on offshore well(s) three times to start, then monitor everything as much as one should while giving some attention to the derrick(s) and offshore well(s) to depressurize them to reduce damage while hoping one has enough time to not miss a beat in click on which deposits to drill with the pumpjack(s), and also hoping the player has enough time to monitor the groundwell(s) to switch to one or more fully-charged batteries. Does playing all of these mini-games at the same time sound fun? It isn't. One will also have to be mindful of how much oil they have on hand and make a trip away from all of the multitasking to go to the market screen so they can empty their reserves. Day two is more of the same except with maintenance of machinery which use a different set of mini-games. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] If the player wants the simultaneous clicker game experience, there's a bunch of free clicker games on Steam the player can download and try to play all at the same time. [h1]The honest word of Il Pallino... OR ELSE![/h1] This review has been provided independently by an admin at [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25150682]REXCurse (REXnetwork)[/url]. No compensation was provided. Email [email protected] for requests & promotions.

The Oil Blue is a time management game developed by the same guy who brought us the oh so glorious Cook, Serve, Delicious. In The Oil Blue you play as one of the many people employed by the United Oil of Oceania company in a world in desperate need of more and more oil. Your job involves you travelling to different islands where oil drilling once took place in order to reclaim the equipment for UOO and use it to complete objectives set for you for that specific island. Please take a couple of things into consideration when you read my review. Firstly, the original source code for the game was "corrupted years back" meaning the dev cannot update the game beyond what he already has, this means the negatives in my review have very little chance of ever being rectified. Secondly, in case you hadn't guessed, this game is pretty old and therefore it's doesn't have amazing graphics or HD resolutions, if this is a glaring problem for you then it's best not to bother with this review because I quite like how it looks. +The drilling machine interfaces are well done and are, for the most part, easy to use though a few things here and there are slightly confusing (such as some of the displays aren't clearly marked as to what they are) +The backgrounds visible behind your drilling machine interfaces are all very nice and there's a good amount of variation when it comes to the appearance of the islands +The game's tutorials, presented in the form of earning your licenses, are very helpful and give detailed instructions on how to run each machine +The game has a fairly good upgrade system. When you're using the machines found on any island you gradually earn experience points for each individual machine as they are used, once you have enough experience on a machine it levels up, granting you some form of upgrade to it but these upgrades only last while you're on that island. A few people have said the fact the upgrades are only temporary are stupid, I on the other hand think it's rather clever, considering the fact you take over different machines when you get to the next island. However, there are also permanent upgrades which can be purchased for each type of drilling machine, though you do need to be a certain rank (ranks are for your character and are completely separate to your machines) in order to unlock the ability to purchase upgrades +As mentioned the game also has a ranking system for your character, new ranks are unlocked by earning a certain amount of money and each rank gives you some form of a boost, such as a higher chance to find a certain type of drilling machine +The price of oil fluctuates between $100 and $200 constantly in the game which adds a nice bit of risk as judging when the right or wrong time to sell can have a serious impact on your profits +Although you leave behind an island and all the work you did there when you reclaim a new island for a new objective you do still get money from those islands in the form of royalties +Though your time on each island is limited to however long you're given for your objective there is no end to the game, you can carry on playing for as long as you like meaning this game has near endless content, though of course there are only so many upgrades for you to get +The game's sound track and sound effects are good and fit in with the game well +/-The game has a huge difficulty spike where the first couple of islands are relatively easy but then after that they increase in difficulty incredibly quickly, personally I would have preffered to be eased in to the more difficult levels but others may not feel the same -The game has a stress system for all but one of the drilling machine types which adds a nice layer of challenge but, when your machines reach a certain stress level they have to be shut down in order for you to repair them (you can also perform repairs before turning the machines on when a new work day starts), the problem I (as a few of the other reviewers have mentioned) is that the repair mini-games you find yourself tasked with often feel far too difficult and in some cases purely rely on chance that you hit the right button combination to successfully complete the mini-game -Steam achievements can only be unlocked by using a tool provided by the developer which scans your save games in order to find which achievements to unlock. Any achievements you have earned will be unlocked at the same time meaning it can end up looking like you've cheated with your achievements -Due to the game's age the Steam Overlay doesn't work properly which means you can't use the Steam Messaging system or take screenshots Verdict: Worth Purchasing (7.5/10) The Oil Blue is a great, if not a little chaotic, time management game with a nice look to it, a good upgrade system and lots to do. If you're a fan of other time management games, in particular Cook, Serve, Delicious then you're definitely going to enjoy this one! [i]No drama, [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/justreviews]Just Reviews.[/url][/i] El K.

[h1]What is it?[/h1] This is a neat little game that sits somewhere between casual simulation and frantic time management! You will be sent to a randomly generated island which will have an assortment of different equipment panels for you to use, and you will be given targets for a specific period of time (e.g. drill/sell 150 barrels in 7 days, or make a certain amount of profit). It is up to you to juggle (sometimes frantically) between the different platform control panels without missing an opportunity to suck more oil out of the ground, but at the same time leaving no machine unattended beyond its stress point, otherwise you will be spending more of your next shift fixing rather than drilling - and there's no profit to be made fixing! You can use your profits to buy upgrades that last for the duration you're at that particular island, but a new island means new (and very basic) equipment, and with a harder objective to meet! [h1]What's good about it?[/h1] What this game does REALLY well is emulate basic controls of different pumping equipment such as groundwells, pump-jacks, oil derricks and rigs, and there is a real challenge in reaching your target objective. How realistic they are, I don't know - but the important thing is that they feel industrial and clunky which creates a great illusion of some kind of reality if not actual reality. The screenshots above really don't do it justice; the panels for operating the machinery and the mechanical sound effects create a surpisingly convincing environment. The 'islands' are randomly generated and infinite, so you'll not run out of scenarios to play (each new island starts your equipment at its basic non-upgraded level). The game has that quality of "just one more go" about it - and just LOOK at that price! Bargain! Oh, and it runs in Windows 10. [h1]Anything not to like?[/h1] The only frustrating parts of the game are a couple of the 'repair' mini-games that can be very hit-and-miss at first, and sometimes are solved purely by luck (I suppose the lesson here is "don't break the dratted drills then")! Be warned that meeting your island's objectives becomes hard real quick so it pays not to be too fond of meeting objectives 100% (just play for the fun of it anyway). Once you reach rank 10 or above, it becomes much easier again. There are areas where I think the game could be improved to be an even bigger and better game: adding a competitive AI company or two; using a map that players must conquer by buying up drilling rights for each island, and making more of the oil selling price. However, this is an older game recently released on Steam and I believe the original assets no longer exist, so this game is truly in its final form - but that isn't a bad thing as it's still a fun, enjoyable game. [h1]In summary[/h1] This is a really neat little game for the price and shows again that originality and creativity sit in the hands of indie developers who really deserve support for titles such as this. It's an ideal diversion game when you're not in the mood for something bigger. I would recommend this game even at twice its price and I hope there will one day be a sequel with more ideas squeezed in.

At first I wasn't expecting much from this game, it was 4 bucks when I bought it and there were no reviews for it yet. When you first start, the tutorials help you get the basics of the game but thats really where it stops. Sure as you level up it teaches you how to operate the higher level machinery, but actually producing the sheer amounts of oil this game requires you to in order to "claim" the island and get its royalties is much harder. Learning how to balance each machine and still get all of the upgrades and sell your oil before the market closes is a challenge. This game wasn't at all what I was expecting but for the price, it is well worth. Have fun spending hours collecting oil in this unique story that'll have you wishing you had become a petroleum engineer instead of an IT person.