Released on May 28th by developer Gamious and publisher PLAYDIGIOUS, Turmoil now allows players to feast on the industry that is oil fracking on the Nintendo Switch.
After choosing one of four character options, you are thrusted straight into the great plains for your first excavation.
Over time, as you sell more and more oil, you accumulate more and more money. Strategy is important: you need enough money to continue renting land to dig, but upgrades such as wider pipes, larger siphons, or faster horses are necessary to make even more money.
The lessons in capitalistic endeavors combined with the delicate balance of business and finance merge in Turmoil, combined with a wild west setting.
Turmoil is a grinding game: every level is the same. You have one year (January to December) to dig and sell oil. Some bonuses are awarded if you finish before the year-long lease is up, or deplete all oil reserves. The only differences from level to level come from the prices the Left Company and the Right Company are willing to purchase barrels at, and the random generation of oil reserves under the ground.
The levels are divided into four stages, which are different biomes. These include the hills, the desert, the plains, and the snow. Each level does introduce a new quality, be it diamonds or gas, but the addition does not change gameplay strategy dramatically. You dig, you sell.
Regardless of Turmoil’s repetitiveness, I ended up personally becoming addicted to the game and playing for hours straight. Eventually, the mayor of your town announces he’s retiring and the only way to take control of the town (and win the game) is through buying town shares via an auction. The money balance game became harder, and trudging through the snow made profits even harder to achieve, with Blanche, my eternal rival, starting to make more money than me.
Even so, I maintained an impressive streak of competitive profits, as Turmoil is not that hard to manage.
The hardest part comes from the controls, as the slider is not sensitive to slight movements of the joycon, and I found it took out many days from my year-long digging to simply glide over a pipe that I wanted to lock, or upgrade. Sometimes this forced my hand into negligence concerning booming prices above ground, or my siphons became full when I was unawares and I then consequently accrued oil spillage fines.
Yet that did not matter in the long run, as I continued to outbid Blanche (curse that lawyer woman) in terms of city shares, and became an oil lord.
Turmoil, while not the most engaging, still had me playing for long periods of times. For some reason, the innate greed humans have for hoarding money and controlling everything around them takes over when you play Turmoil, generating hours of satisfaction. I would say Turmoil is good for those looking to kill time, not for those looking for enlightenment.
End score: 8/10
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I'm Zepora, a junior at UC Berkeley studying Economics. I grew up attached to my Game Boy playing the Pokémon games, but now I turn to my consoles as break from school work when I'm not busy with lacrosse. I prefer RPG's with a some action, such as Elder Scrolls and Assassin's Creed (which is my favorite franchise) but am also known to play Super Smash Bros until 3am with my friends.
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