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Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)

Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.

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August 10, 2020
5 years and 358 days ago
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Very Positive372 reviews87.1%

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About the Game

Build your own Oil Rig!

Build up your oil platform from a single tiny rig to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimise your construction for the efficiency of production, increasing your cash flow, while keeping your employees happy and safe.

Take care of your company reputation

Sign long term contracts for selling your products. Acquire new clients for new resources. Manage your reputation and relations with clients to improve profit.

Multiple unique events and scenarios

Manage your platform during an environmental crisis. Face many different challenges and threats like storms, blizzards, fire and many more. Keep your employees safe from pirate and terrorist attacks or from dying of deadly diseases.

Manage your Oil Rig crew

Carefully select your employees with different skills and statistics. Keep them happy and improve their quality of life on the platform. Build entertainment, provide better accommodation, better food and health care. A skilled and happy workforce is key to increasing your production output.

Build Oil Rig in different places and face different challenges

Experience different scenarios in different places of the world. Ranging from freezing arctic with snow and blizzards, through tropical waters with pirates, to haunted islands.