Customer Reviews

Oil Tycoon (Jewel Case)

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This is a very well made game with many facets. When you build a stable empire, it gets tedious, but it is rather addictive. However, it does need many, many clicks of the mouse, but I still like it. Researching technologies can be a pain, and when you play against the AI, you need to be fast and agressive. However, when you get good at the game, it is very easy. If you are in to strategy games, this is a good game, it's not too easy and not too difficult. I would reccomend this to a friend.

Overall, Oil Tycoon is a very-well structured game. The game itseself, however, wears out its flair after a couple of hours. The gameplay focuses on making money, but if you obtain a stable business account, the game gets incredibly tedious. For instance, before you can build your own oil tankers to haul oil to either your own oil refinary, or, more likely, a neutral refinary. In order to get these tankers, you need to charter them. The contract expires after one haul, so you have to charter ships over and over and over again until you just want to vomit. Also, when you construct a new oil well, you have to hire employees and engineers, as well as buying/leasing new equipment and getting food for your miners.

Oil Tycoon isn't a bad game; it just gets old too fast. Overall, this is a good simulation game for you hyper-realists, but otherwise, beware.

Many of the repetitive features on this game could have been automated and would have made it a much better game. There is too much repition. Buy Railroad Tycoon instead.

I thought the game was really fun but after a few hours i got sick of doing the same think over and over again i wouldnt recomend buying this game.

I believe I paid 3 or 4 bucks for this game but even then it was a waste of that money and of the three or so hours I spent trying to enjoy this game. This game is far too tedious (buying food for oil workers?) and the gameplay shallow. This game is by a significant margin the worst of the forty or so games I have bought in my life.

When I first saw the game I thought it would be the stupidest thing ever made because it sounds like it would be stupid. Then I tried it. It was fun but still sounded ... It gets boring after a while though.