Charming yet strategic management game Turmoil is free to keep right now

Management games have tasked us with running amusement parks, taking sports teams to glory, and building empires with public transportation, but only one has you hunting for black gold. In the charming, but challenging Rebellionyour goal is to become a wealthy oil baron, and now you can grab this highly rated and strategic management sim for free on the Epic Games Store.

Turmoil has been around for a while now, but it’s still a brilliant management game with a unique style that will test your multi-tasking, resource control and environmental disregard. Inspired by the 19th century American oil rush, you’ll gradually expand your empire with new rigs, frontier-style buildings and fleets of horses and wagons to flog away your precious oil.

When searching for new oil deposits, you are tasked with creating intricate and efficient networks of underground pipes to not only locate the oil, but also bring it to the surface, where it is then stored in silos. With fluctuating oil prices, you need to be on your toes to sell at a strong price, but if you wait too long, your storage can reach maximum capacity, meaning you no longer drill until you move it – or use your money on more silos.

The single-player campaign mode essentially tasks you with becoming the richest oil mogul in the West, building up your city, growing your business across different locations, and making sure rival barons don’t squeeze you out. There is also a mode that gives you a randomly generated level and tasks you with making as much money as possible in a year.

However, you can also get competitive because Turmoil lets you play against friends or random players online in a race to create the biggest oil empire possible. It’s a brilliant little management game and it has a very commendable 92% user review on Steam. However, Turmoil has just become available on the Epic Games Store, and to celebrate, it has been awarded the honor of being the platform’s free game of the week.

That means you can get Turmoil for free to keep in the Epic Games Store right now until Thursday, January 16th. Head over here if you want to add it to your library.

Epic has also revealed that the excellent puzzle game Escape Academy will be next on its conveyor belt of freebies.

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