Planned Release Date: 2027

About This Game

Crude Empire is an oil tycoon game set in Texas from 1930 to 1945. Find oil, drill your wells, lay pipelines, refine gasoline and sell it at your own stations.

From landman to oil baron

The campaign takes you through eight chapters in four regions, from the Permian Basin to East Texas, the Gulf Coast and Oklahoma. You start out working for an oil company from Dallas and end up running your own. Letters and telegrams tell what happens in between. In free play you pick the map and your rivals yourself and play for a score.

Keep the oil moving

Drill your wells yourself with a steady hand, or leave it to the crew. Then the oil has to flow: by pipeline to the refinery, by truck to the pumps. Somewhere your chain always jams. One day the pipeline runs full, the next the trucks can't keep up.

Rivals with a face

The other oil companies play by the same rules as you, each run by a boss with a mind of their own. They drill into the same fields and bid against you for new land. At the pump, a few cents can start a price war.

The big money

Take out loans, issue bonds and buy shares until you can take over a rival. In the Petroleum Club, deals are made under the table, and sabotage is never far away. Crises shake the market, and the Herald prints all of it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used in the development of Crude Empire: for parts of the graphics, for music and sound effects, and to help write and translate the texts. All content was individually selected, refined and hand-integrated into the game.