- Steam Awards – “Labor of Love” Nomination - 24 November 2025
Nominate Turmoil for “Labor of Love” 💛Turmoil has been in players’ hands for many years now, and it has continued to grow thanks to all of you — your feedback, your suggestions, and your passion for digging a little deeper.This year, we’d love your help nominating Turmoil for the Steam Awards “Labor of Love” category.This award celebrates games that keep evolving long after launch — shaped by a dedicated community and a team that keeps improving the experience.Your support helps more players discover our quirky oil-drilling world.Thanks for sticking with us all these years and for being such an important part of Turmoil’s journey 💛
- A Decade of Drilling: Turmoil Turned 10 Today! - 5 June 2025
Dear Oil Entrepreneurs, Today, it was exactly 10 years ago that Turmoil was first released on Steam in Early Access. It's been quite the adventure! We're happy to celebrate this special day with a juicy discount, and we're especially thankful to everyone that supported us on our way to reaching this milestone. A birthday is not complete without some decoration, so you might notice we've given the Turmoil logo a temporary makeover in the title screen. There's even special thank you note there from the mayor himself! We're hoping to stick around much longer than these 10 years, not in the least because we still highly enjoy playing the game ourselves. So, don't be surprised if you see us in the Daily Challenge rankings, or as an opponent in a random multiplayer game! We're looking forward to it. Thank you again, and happy drilling! Gamious
- Daily Challenges! - 27 May 2025
Howdy, oil afficionados! Hold on to your hats because we’ve got an update that’s going to shake things up! We’re upping the challenge frequency by introducing Daily Challenges, bringing you fresh gameplay every day. What’s New? We're ditching the Weeklies and present you with the opportunity to test your mettle against the world on a Daily basis! And as a bonus: If you own the The Heat is On DLC, get ready to get hands-on with magma in The Volcanic Lands, now added to the Daily Challenge carrousel! And if you want to go deep or refine your drilling game, Deep Mode and The Cliffs have been added as Daily Challenges as well, as part of the Deeper Underground DLC! So, saddle up and check in every day to make sure you don’t miss out on your daily dose of Turmoil action!
- Charming but strategic management game Turmoil is free to keep right now - 9 January 2025
Management games have tasked us with running theme parks, taking sports teams to glory, and building public transport empires, but only one has you hunting for black gold. In the charming but challenging Turmoil , your goal is to become a wealthy oil baron, and now you can grab this highly-rated and strategic management sim for free over on the Epic Games Store. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: We've got 100 copies of oil-rush tycoon game Turmoil to give away. Fancy drilling for some black gold?
- Deeper Underground update - 31 October 2024
Dear Oil entrepreneurs, Today's update brings some bug fixes and updated mechanics! Many thanks to everyone who reported bugs on the Turmoil Steam Community boards. Please know that even if we do not respond to every post, we do read them and your feedback is much appreciated! Features We changed the reward for picking up a ruby in deep mode. Instead of getting a bonus at the end of the level, you now directly get a bonus of $500 for your research fund. Added some visual feedback for passing every 100m in Deepmode. Bug fixes Updated localization files Fixed an issue where Deepmode levels sometimes had the background of the cliffs levels. Fixed an issue where the extra time you get for using a diamond in the main game is not counted in your final profit of the level. Fixed an issue with the water valve audio in deepmode and dynamite countdown audio not being affected by volume sliders.
- A few DLC bug fixes - 23 September 2024
Fixed issue where it was sometimes possible to play Dice Dice Dice with too little money Fixed issue where Dice Dice Dice was not playable if the player lacked the funds for other saloon offers above 1000 dollars Fixed diamond offer in The Heat is On never appearing Removed line from deep mode level excerpt about diamonds found Fixed issue where campaign button stays selected after reopening custom multiplayer game menu Fixed issue where deepmode check to see if you were able to build a pipe assumed you are always drilling through rock Fixed issue where the game would sometimes freeze if a pipe was built directly from a refinery
- Get drilling for oil once again in the Turmoil - Deeper Underground DLC - 13 September 2024
Wow, haven't heard of this one for a while. Released back in 2016, Turmoil is a game about drilling for oil like it's 1899 and it has a new expansion available. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/get-drilling-for-oil-once-again-in-the-turmoil-deeper-underground-dlc
- Deeper Underground is now available! - 12 September 2024
Dear oil entrepreneurs, Turmoil's new DLC Deeper Underground is now available! So, without further ado, we welcome you to get back into the business of drilling for oil, and all the other things we have cooked up for you! An all-new town with new buildings, a new mayor, and balloon trips to special deep-drilling grounds! Besides oil, you can now also find water underground - which comes in handy when you want to drill faster and cheaper! But it's also essential for the production of the highly valuable petrol! Petrol marks the start of a new era. You can’t just dig it up and sell it right away, you first have to produce it in refineries. It’s a challenging but rewarding undertaking, and we trust there will be no complaints about the revenues it generates! A brand new expedition: Every few in-game years, regular drilling levels are alternated with special research missions. Here, it's al…
- Deeper Underground Playtest! - 8 August 2024
Hi all! You may have heard about the upcoming new Turmoil DLC: Deeper Underground! If you're all hyped up and would like to help us playtest the final stages of development, you're welcome to sign up for a limited-time playtest on the storepage: https://store.steampowered.com/app/361280/Turmoil/ Playtesting will only be done in English for now, but of course the final game will be available in all languages you are used to. We'll start playtesting as soon as next week, so first come first serve! So sign up, and get your oil (and petrol) drilling on! Your input will only help us make the DLC more awesome! Thanks in advance! Team Turmoil
- Turmoil - Deeper Underground - 1 August 2024
We're happy to present Turmoil - Deeper Underground! We’re bringing Turmoil into the Roaring Twenties with a completely new campaign, lots of newfangled mechanics, upgrades, new playable characters and NPC’s, and all-new areas and levels! But rest assured: it all comes with the trusted Turmoil gameplay you've come to know from previous campaigns. So get ready to deepen your Turmoil experience, here’s what you can expect: An all-new town with new buildings, a new mayor, and balloon trips to special deep-drilling grounds! Besides oil, you can now also find water underground - which comes in handy when you want to drill faster and cheaper! But it's also essential for the production of the highly valuable petrol! Petrol marks the start of a new era. You can’t just dig it up and sell it right away, you first have to produce it in refineries. It’s a challenging but rewarding undertaking, and…
- V 3.1.3 - Single game mode for Multiplayer - 21 February 2023
Dear oil entrepreneurs, Thank you for all the great feedback and support! We noticed that not every player had the time to complete a full multiplayer campaign. Because of this we are happy to add a single game mode to the multiplayer: Play a single level with random players Customize a single level to play with friends Single player tab added to the achievements overview Next to the single game mode we also fixed some bugs and added some new features. Features: Added pop-up to the start of single levels and weekly challenge with info about the level. Added help feature to the multiplayer menu. Small changes: Changed wording in pause menu when watching a replay (it now says “exit replay” instead of “stop level”) Bug fixes: Fixed issue with returning from watching a replay from the challenge highscore where it would always open the current challenge instead of the one you were looking at…
- V 3.1.2 - Fixing some small issues - 10 January 2023
Dear oil entrepreneurs, Thank you for all the feedback! We will bring you a update today to fix some small issues in multiplayer mode: After leaving a multiplayer match where all other players left before the end, you will no longer get a pop-up with a warning about abandoning games prematurely (this will also not count as a game leave). Added the option to delete custom games that are still waiting to start. Fixed a bug where the game gets stuck when someone reaches exactly 50% of the shares. We have been collecting your feedback and suggestions (thank you!) to further improve and expand Turmoil multiplayer!
- V 3.1.1 - Getting more players to participate in Multiplayer matches - 16 December 2022
Dear oil entrepreneurs, Thank you for all the feedback on the multiplayer update! We will bring you a small update today to fix some issues with multiplayer matches that get stuck early in the game. Unresponsive players get removed from the match in the first turn When a player now leaves a match in the first turn without playing the level, they are no longer part of that running game to make room for another player. This way we want to reward participation and hopefully prevent more games from getting stuck. Next to the issue above we fixed some problems with missing text in the localization of multiplayer.
- Multiplayer now available! - 14 December 2022
Dear oil entrepreneurs, We are happy to announce that with this update, Turmoil Multiplayer is finally here! We dig it (ha!), and hope you will too! Many thanks to all the players who helped us by playtesting, filling in questionnaires and reporting bugs! Now we suspect you may want to know what’s in store in Turmoil Multiplayer, so here’s a short roundup of what’s what: Turmoil Multiplayer is like playing a campaign with human opponents instead of NPC's, on a new and smaller map, but with the same area and technology progression as in the main game. Join a random campaign and stack up your skills against players across the globe, or create a custom campaign with up to 3 of your friends to battle out who will become the next oil baron(ess)! Adjust the conditions of any custom campaign with your friend(s) via custom game options: add AI players and tweak their difficulty level, adjust th…
- 3.0.70 - Save backups and lots of bug fixes - 7 July 2022
Dear oil entrepreneurs, Today's update brings some long needed bug fixes and tweaks. Many thanks to everyone who reported bugs on the Turmoil Steam Community boards. Please know that even if we do not respond to every post, we do read them and your feedback is much appreciated! Features Campaigns, single levels, challenge levels and player progress are now backed up before saving a new one. The backup is loaded in case the original is corrupted or no longer exists. Added Steam Rich Presence which displays your ingame status in the Steam friends list while you are playing. The status indicates when you are playing a campaign and in what year, whether you are in a level, and so on. You can now view your bought saloon offers instead of them disappearing from the list. This means you can now review the saloon offers that will be active for the next level. Big bug fixes The bonus island in t…
- Multiplayer beta signups are now open! - 21 April 2022
Dear oil entrepreneurs, It's finally upon us: Turmoil Multiplayer has reached the playtesting phase! If all goes well, you'll all be able to play Turmoil campaigns online with friends and adversaries in the near future. But of course we want to make sure everything is in good order before we release this goodness onto our beloved players. And we could use your help with this! Once the playtest build is live, a button will appear on the store page, which you can use to sign up as a tester for Turmoil Multiplayer. There will be a limited number of volunteer playtester spots available, and if you sign up via the button, you will receive an invite. If you decide to join the playtest, start playing and share your feedback via our questionnaire! The major things we want to test are: Setting up a new game Customising your character and frame Playing the Multiplayer campaign (of course) Multipl…
- Multiplayer part 5: Q&A - 11 February 2022
Welcome to the final pre-release development blog of the multiplayer update. We’re really thankful for the positive interest so far. In today’s post, we are going to answer some questions that appeared in the comments on previous blog posts. After that, all that’s left is actually releasing the gamemode! Multiplayer part 1: an introduction A look at what the multiplayer campaign is and what a turn of playing looks like. Multiplayer part 2: a match in action A first look at the info you get to see about your opponents. Multiplayer part 3: game history and end-of-game A look at in-game player statistics and the History page. Multiplayer part 4: customization and matchmaking Cosmetic player customization and details about how you actually join a match. Multiplayer part 5: questions & answers ← You are here An overview of all the questions so far and our answers. When is it expected to come…
- Multiplayer part 4: customization and matchmaking - 28 January 2022
Hello and welcome to the last multiplayer blog post. The topics of the day are player portrait customization and matchmaking! Multiplayer part 1: an introduction A look at what the multiplayer campaign is and what a turn of playing looks like. Multiplayer part 2: a match in action A first look at the info you get to see about your opponents. Multiplayer part 3: game history and end-of-game A look at in-game player statistics and the History page. Multiplayer part 4: customization and matchmaking ← You are here Cosmetic player customization and details about how you actually join a match. Multiplayer part 5: questions & answers An overview of community questions that were answered previously. Make sure to put your questions in the comments! Player customization In order to distinguish the players in a multiplayer game, we needed to make sure that you don’t look the same. We firstsimply a…
- Multiplayer part 3: game history and end-of-game - 21 January 2022
Hello all and welcome to part 3 of the multiplayer development log. We will be showcasing the match statistics available during a multiplayer campaign. Today’s screenshots are all from a real multiplayer match, played internally. Multiplayer part 1: an introduction A look at what the multiplayer campaign is and what a turn of playing looks like. Multiplayer part 2: a match in action A first look at the info you get to see about your opponents. Multiplayer part 3: game history and end-of-game ← You are here A look at in-game player statistics and the History page. Multiplayer part 4: customization and matchmaking Multiplayer part 5: questions & answers An overview of community questions that were answered previously. Make sure to put your questions in the comments! During a match it is helpful sometimes to take a look at what has happened so far. Maybe you are playing multiple matches at…
- Turmoil for Android and iOS out now! - 11 January 2022
Dear oil entrepreneurs, It’s finally here! Leiting Games and Gamious proudly present Turmoil for Android and iOS. Turmoil for mobile contains the full experience you know and love, adjusted for touch screens with zoom, tap, and swipe inputs specifically designed for phone screens. Additional features include: Android tablet and iPad support Classic and expert campaign The Heat Is On expansion pack, with normal and expert campaign Single game mode Daily Challenge mode with leaderboards. You read that right, daily! Save & Continue functionality. Automatically saves when minimized. COMING SOON: Multiplayer gamemode, play a campaign against your friends! The game is available as a free demo with an in-app purchase for the campaign and for the DLC. Pay once, play forever. Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ltgames.android.oil Download for iOS: https://app…
