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Game freeze on my PC in the intro/tutorial at the screen where one is told that one can add a pipe by clicking and dragging with left MB.
I use Win 10 Pro 64 bit

Oil Baron

In Brief

An oil mining management game using the free Construct 2 engine.

The Game:

Today's game looks like a cross between those early miner games like manic miner and a resource gathering game. :) There are seven locations to explore with certain tasks that you must complete, these tasks enable you to earn lots of cash and.or large amounts of oil. At the start of the game you can choose from five difficulty modes that include:

Easy: This has the most sources of oil that are large reserves and ther eis a high chance of finding oil on the surface, indicating where to/Hard drill.

Normal: This has many sources of oil that are moderate in size with a moderate chance of finding oil on the surface

Difficult: There are few sources of oil with small reserves and only a small chance of finding signs of oil on the surface.

Very complicate/very hard: There are few sources of oil found and what you find will be small reserves. There's no chance of finding oil on the surfaced.

Insane/Crazy: Very few sources of oil, almost absent, with tiny reserves only. It's impossible to find any signs of oil on the surface.

Once you've chosen the difficulty you can then choose one of several locations that include The Manor of fitts, Oil Station, The Storm Manor, Farm of Winston, Pass and Wasteland. Whichever you choose you are give a short period to check the site out, and employ a geologist that will cost you money to hire ($200). As you progress there are specific levels that give you upgrades for example when you pass level 3 you will get a brief glimpse of where the oil fields are, this gives you an opportunity to select a suitable place to build your rig to ensure you get the largest amount of oil from the well before having to place a new drill elsewhere. Two levels on (i.e level 5) your research by your geologist is 10% faster and by level 7 you are able to carry more oil to sell, level 10 raises the price of the oil you sell as well as their being more sources of oil You can see from one of the images below the various upgrades that are available.

Rigs can only be placed on open ground. If there are any obstructions the indicator that covers the size of the rig will be red. when you find a clear patch, it will change to green. Once a rig has been situated, you then need to buy and place a storage tank that will temporarily store any oil you drill for. Locate the tank next to the rig and with your LMB click for each length of pipe you require. To extend or make a branch in the pipe press the LMB twice on the rig, then an icon with a pipe will appear. To place the extension or branch click on the red dot that appears at the end of the first pipe that automatically appears when you place the oil storage tank. Keep hold of that pipe with your mouse pointer until you have selected exactly where you want it to be. The pipe needs to be inserted into a reservoir of underground oil for the tank to fill, once it is full you approach the tank with your character and scoop up a bucket of oil and return to the market and sell it. From the sale you earn money (in dollars) and experience.

As mentioned previously, there will be improvements added as you increase in levels. Spending some of your earnings on a geologist from level 3 will enable you to roughly determine where oil can be found (this is where your geologist will reveal all the oil reserves under the ground for a very short period). If you don't spend cash on a geologist, you will save some money, but conversely you may also lose out on finding that big reserve that could potentially earn you a lot more money and also know approximately where to place the pipes for maximum profit. If you had guessed where the oil is, drilling may be more of an hit and miss affair depending on the difficulty you have selected. On the easiest levels the location of oil reserves may be given away by leakage onto the surface, so not spending money on a geologist may be a wise move, at higher difficulty levels you won't see these signs, so the geologist's fee becomes much less important compared to the profits you could potentially make knowing roughly where that black gold is.

Once you've chosen the site where you want to locate your well, you have to purchase a rig and a storage tank. Also the deeper you want to drill, the more money you will require to pay for longer pipe lengths. It's important to get the location of you pipes as central within the reserve as you can because as you remove oil, the reserve shrinks. If you start to remove oil with too short or too long a pipe, (the length of pipe is determined by the LMB when you add each section to the initial pipe, which is also controlled length wise by the movement of the LMB) you'll find the oil rig stops taking the oil because the pipe is no longer located withing the oil reserve, despite there still being oil present. Once the oil rig stops you have to sell the rig, tank and the oil you've recovered.

The further away from the market the rig is located the longer it takes to sell the oil. When you first start drilling in a location, you can send your porter out to look for signs of oil on the surface (only in the easier difficulty modes). Time is an important factor in this game because there is a countdown timer telling you how long you have before the end of the level. When you reach the end you will be awarded up to three stars depending on how successful you were, plus some stats will be quoted such as the total you earned, the total amount spent and the total production of oil. The price of oil can fluctuate dramatically, for example rates can fluctuate from £0.20 to $4 per unit of oil; so if you sell at the wrong time you will not make as much profit. The profits you do make from the sale of tyour exhausted oil rig and oil can then be used to build more rigs. Each bucket of oil you sell equates to 15 units of oil and once sold you also gain 15 points of experience. The steam version of this game HERE also features 14 achievements, but the version we have is a free standing non Steam version, so you don't get the achievements. You can see several Steam community reviews of todays game .

You can see a few in-game videos of game play for Oil Baron HERE, HERE & HERE.

The aim of the game is to make as much money as you can within a certain amount of time. There is an indicator along the top of the game screen that tells you how much time you have left. The money you earn from selling the oil can be spent on various upgrades and other items such as a mole that will dig and locat oil, the mole can also be upgraded to be more efficient at finding oil. You can also buy housing of various types such as a caravan, small garage, country house, house and cottage,. Purchasing these enables you to employ more porters for collecting the oil and selling it, speeding up the process especially when the price of oil is high. You can also improve the rig to make it more efficient at collecting oil and trying to sell the oil when the price is high and store it when the price is low.

Conclusion:

Despite the game feeling a little repetitive, I would have considered buying this on Steam as I did find the game mildly entertaining, however there were a few concerns that would need addressing before I would consider buying this game via Steam. But the fact that there are quite a few un -translated Russian text within the game, which does affect game play significantly as well as there being very little instruction that is easily understandable. I did find the and it does have potential if the developer made a few changes including translating all the text to English when selecting the English mode and adding some better background environments. My two main concerns are that not all the game has been translated, for example pressing R while in game brings up the bank, but everything is in Russian and I haven't a clue what I'm supposed to do, so a decent help would also be a must have. There is a short tutorial when you first open the game, but its poorly delivered and a little confusing as its done with still images instead of an animated one. With respect to the poorly translated English mode; I've tried clicking on the three items you can find when you bring the bank up, (see images below). Also, when you do click on one of the three items, a small message either in Green (indicating it was a successful transaction) or red (indicating a negative transaction) appears in the bottom right of the screen with various information, all of which is in Russian which I cannot understand. My second concern is that Oil Baron appears to be a copy (minus a few extras) of another mining management game called Turmoil. The graphics are similar, though Turmoil looks 'a little' nicer graphically and the game play is virtually the same except you get a scanner instead of a geologist to find oil reserves. Plus Turmoil also includes selling gas as well. Because of the un translated portions of the game I wasn't able to explore the game much, just to check the different scenarios, which apart from some slight coloring and in one level a dark sky and rain, the levels looks virtually the same. These could have been much improved by having different style buildings in each level and maybe even different rigs.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via Steam for £1.69/$? (Steam Prices do not list this game, so I can't say exactly what it will cost in US dollars) HERE; There are some differences between the Steam game and the giveaway version which is free standing. The level selection screen in the Steam version has a platform like selection for each level, where your character jumps from one platform to another selecting which level they wish to try. all levels are unlocked at the start of the game.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Oil Baron to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank GiBar for giving away Oil Baron and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

The latest free game over on Epic games is now Bad . North: Jotunn Edition a rogue-like action strategy game with tower defense elements. It will be free until the 28th November when Rayman Legends a fast paced, comedic platformer local coop and cooperative game play available (up to 4 players) will be available for a week.