PRESS KIT

In CRUDE you start where every oil empire really starts — as a wildcatter with a hunch, a beaten-up rig and just enough money to sink one hole. You study the formation, weigh the survey against your gut, and commit the bit. Sometimes the ground gives you a gusher. Sometimes it gives you a dry, expensive lesson.

Every lease is a bet. The map is never fully known, the good ground is never free, and the market that pays for your barrels swings on its own logic. Rigs, bits and crews wear down with use, so growth is a constant balance of maintenance, reinvestment and knowing when to gamble on the next lease over.

It is a systemic tycoon sim built out of rules, friction and consequence rather than scripted beats — the story is whatever the simulation does to you as you claw your way from a single derrick to a sprawling operation. Built for Steam and Android from day one, with the same depth tuned for each screen.