Oil Barons: Black Gold War

Oswald Games

About this game

The oil is right under your boots. The town is yours to build. The empire is yours to run.

DRILL — Pick your spot in the Permian Basin. Raise a derrick. Pumpjacks rise across the flats. Crude starts flowing fast. Drill fresh ground, strike a gusher, watch the meter spin.

REFINE — Crude is worthless until you turn it into fuel. Light the flare stacks. Pipe it from wellhead to refinery. Diesel, gasoline, jet fuel — every barrel converted is a barrel of profit.

PUMP — Pull in dusty pickups. Lock the perfect zone on the gauge for max profit. Upgrade your station and the perfect zone gets wider — until you're printing money with every click. Every perfect tap sends profit surging.

BUILD — A honky-tonk bar. A BBQ joint. A motel. A church. A sheriff's office. A hardware store. Your one-pump station grows into the whole town. The whole town runs on YOUR oil.

WAR — Out here, every deal is one bullet away from a war. Negotiate with rival outfits over a handshake — or run them off the land with armed convoys. Hire gunhands. Armor your trucks. Raid their rigs before they raid yours. Defend your pipelines. Burn theirs. The Permian doesn't take prisoners — and neither do you.

The dirt doesn't care who you were before. By the end of this, the dirt is yours.