This game seems to be simple. Not much of graphic (but I still find it adorable).

After some time, you will find how challenging it is to maintain all those crazy machines. I really like how this games shows you that multitasking is bad ... and you should avoid it in your life :)

I love the experience so far.

Btw, fullscreen and screenshots are not always working as expected..

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A GAME FOR SMART PEOPLE CAW CAW.

SADLY I'M NOT INVITED TO THE SMART PEOPLE CLUB CAW CAW. ACTUALLY I DO GET INVITED TO MONTHLY UNION MEETINGS, BUT WHO GOES TO THOSE CAW CAW?

I DIDN'T KNOW A OIL TANK CAN GET STRESSED CAW CAW.

Amazing game, if you can make it to paying for repairs it becomes even funner!

When the tutorial convinces you that the game sucks.

My rating 2/10, not recommended.

I am 32 years old.

My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.

When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.

Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.

With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.

After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.

Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.

Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.

Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.

Thank you.

For people who enjoy hardcore clicker games: 4/10: Will gladly drill, baby, drill, 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 strategy and managemet. 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.


Someone has a messed up idea as to what a management sim should be. Rather than having to make decisions and boss people around, The Oil Blue 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 pressure release button to minimize stress to the machine in question.


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.


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 The Oil Blue 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.


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.


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.


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It's broken.

Beautiful art. Sound is perfect. Gameplay is simple but time runs out qickly. Trying to juggle different responsabilities and actions without screwing up is challenging.
But nevermind all that. There's something gorgeous and magical about the game. Makes it difficult to review. It's not so much about what you do, but how engaging it feels when you do it. Like a platformer or racing game with perfect controls. It doesn't matter why or what, what matters is how good it feels and that's why you want to play those games again and again.
The Oil Blue somehow captures that feel with a dry setting and relatively simple mouse controls.

A game that doesn't take long when you figure out what it wants you to do in the repair minigames