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Crude Oil

Escape your captors as a puddle of petroleum on the run from Big Oil. Collect more oil to grow big and juicy. Bounce and slide. Operate heavy machinery. Flush polluters down the drain.

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June 9, 2026
54 days ago
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About the Game

You are a blob of oil and you have to escape from the oil industry.

Bounce Around

Splat off the walls, bowl thru stacks of barrels, and skate across puddles as an elastic blob, with Mario-like moves subverted by formlessness. Slow time to pull a tricky maneuver, or just to savor your character’s outlandish acrobatics.

Get Huge

Collect and launch oil droplets to grow into a formidable glob or shrink to a modest slick. Try on different hats for a variety of short-term power-ups.

Escape

Drive a forklift to lift and stack heavy obstacles to suit your oily needs. Mix it up with rude robots.

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