Oil Rush

Release Date: January 25, 2012

Strategy, RTS, indie games, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet, LAN

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Steam

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Oil Rush is a real-time strategy taking place in a postapocalyptic world covered mostly by seas and oceans. Only oil, which is currently the most precious resource and object of desire of the remaining people, can ensure survival.

Oil Rush is a real-time strategy game based on group control. It offers mechanics of a classical RTS combined with a Tower Defence genre: construction and upgrading production platforms combined with their defense. Players dispatch naval and aerial units to capture enemy's platforms and oil rigs.

Challenging gameplay takes players through swarms of furious enemies in every battle. Victory requires intelligent branching of technology researches and all the variety of tactics one can employ.

LAN and Internet multiplayer available in the game.

Setting

In the post-apocalyptic flooded world there are two things people are running short on: oil and time. The last survivors in a desperate attempt to seize control over the resources and dominate the enemy have started the naval warfare that turned the whole world into one large battlefield.

The key to survival in the devastated world is to develop the military technologies and introduce new types of combat units. In these harsh and cruel times, oil is thicker than blood.

Key Features:

High-end graphics

Multi-player over LAN and Internet

Multi-platform:

Windows

Linux

PlayStation 3

Explosive gameplay with rushing swarms of furious enemies

Various environments

Mod SDK available

High-End Graphics

Strategy game has never been so impressingly photo-realistic, especially considering moderate hardware requirements: the game runs smoothly on middle-end PC and PS3. The visual excellence of OilRush is powered by top-notch render of Unigine engine allowing tons of special effects.

OilRush catches the eye with huge battles, massive explosions and burning wrecks in swirling waters as the sky is streaked with fiery traces of dashing missiles. Ultimately devastating nukes look even more spectacular bringing death to the rest of humanity.

Native Linux Support

Cross-platform Unigine engine enables native Linux version of OilRush filling the gap in modern games available for this platform. Linux version of the game will be released simultaneously with Windows one.

Last updated on April 18, 2019

Videos and Screens

[12:35] Oil Rush gameplay #1

[1:12] Oil Rush trailer #2

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