Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon is a technique simulation recreation printed by Final Video games. You handle a small oil rig enterprise, rising it as massive as potential. The aim is to maintain your staff glad and protected, make a revenue, construct a superb repute, and, in the end, handle a profitable oil rig. However does this title stand out in opposition to different enterprise tycoons?
The sport begins with an interactive tutorial, which I appreciated. Some enterprise administration video games have many transferring items, jobs to juggle, and buttons to study. Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon is not any completely different. You don’t construct an oil rig after which sit again and watch the cash stream in. No, this recreation really put the “handle” in “enterprise administration.”
In Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon, you’ll have to construct your oil rig from scratch. In fact, you’ll want staff to handle the oil rig, make things better after they’re damaged, and extra. However the staff have to be glad, wholesome, and protected. So, you’ll additionally have to construct kitchens, bedrooms, and the like. I discovered maintaining the staff glad probably the most tough half. They don’t like working in noisy areas, however they’re on an oil rig in the midst of the ocean; it’s noisy by default. Every constructing you place causes a specific amount of noise, so in the event you place a bed room close to it, for instance, the staff will get unhappy. Thus, they gained’t carry out effectively.
There are eight missions to finish, each getting progressively extra difficult. For instance, one mission is to construct a profitable oil rig in pirate waters. Sure, there are pirates, krakens, and climate points to be cautious of. To be sincere, I felt these points weren’t as unhealthy as maintaining the staff glad sufficient to proceed working. I restarted my first mission 4 occasions as a result of all my staff stop. At that time, the sport was extra irritating than enjoyable.
The controls aren’t a stroll within the park, both. The sport’s interface is inside one round menu with submenus that it’s essential navigate. Even after taking part in by means of the tutorial, there are such a lot of buildings and different objects to construct I had a tough time remembering the place all the things was. Fortunately, you possibly can change the sport’s pace, so I used to be in a position to pause my oil rig whereas I scrolled by means of the large menu to search out what I wanted. However then I’d notice I wouldn’t have the sources or supplies to construct what I wanted. I felt like I used to be at all times a step behind the place the sport needed me to be.
As well as, once you’re in a position to construct one thing, putting it on the oil rig will be difficult. The digital camera isn’t nice, and relying on what number of different buildings you could have on the rig, it may be tough to see precisely the place you’re putting the brand new constructing. In fact, you’ll want cash to create new buildings. As with most enterprise simulation video games, this may be difficult to do early on. You want cash to generate income, and the sport doesn’t offer you a lot to begin.
The missions in Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon aren’t essentially tough. I largely discovered navigating the gameplay, managing my staff, and making certain I had sufficient cash to do what I wanted probably the most tough components. As an illustration, every mission has three components to it. After finishing two out of the three components, the subsequent mission unlocks. I discovered this to be annoying as a result of I usually felt caught. I didn’t need to really feel caught in a enterprise administration recreation; I need to really feel wealthy. There’s a sandbox mode, which did add to the enjoyable. Nonetheless, in the event you’ve been fighting the buttons or navigating the sport for some time, then the sandbox isn’t as nice because of the lack of path. I felt like there was no glad medium with this recreation.
I had enjoyable with Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon at first. Nonetheless, the extra I performed it, the extra irritated I acquired. It wasn’t as intuitive as I hoped it’d be. As with all tycoon recreation, I needed my most important mission to be wealthy and profitable. I didn’t care in regards to the different missions, solely to be rewarded with having to construct a brand-new oil rig from scratch. In case you take pleasure in enterprise sims and are on the lookout for a problem, this recreation could possibly be up your alley. However for me, I believe I’ll stick with different tycoon video games.