Games Like Crude Empire

Build an oil empire in boomtown Texas

West Texas in the oil boom. You start with a small budget, a survey map of the Permian Basin and competitors who already own the gas stations in town. Find oil, drill the well yourself, lay pipelines, refine crude into gasoline and sell it at your own pumps. Every stage can become the bottleneck, and your rivals fight you for every field and every customer.

Every link of the chain is yours

Find the bottleneck

A full pipeline, a refinery that is too small, a depot without enough trucks: somewhere the chain always jams. The flow view shows how much runs through every pipe and where it hits its limit, and you set priorities and limits at each junction. The office follows your oil stage by stage, marks the bottleneck and tells you how to fix it, and the books show where the money comes from and where it goes.

Win the market

Fight for the fields

From field manager to the boardroom

In the campaign you start as an employee of an oil company and run one region after another for it. Meet the board's targets to climb the ranks, with larger maps, bigger budgets and new oil regions beyond the Permian Basin. A story told in letters and telegrams ties it all together.