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Games like Oil Refinery - The Simulation

If Oil Refinery - The Simulation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Boss Beek-Beekeeping Simulator, COPA CITY and King of Retail 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Oil Refinery - The Simulation: Operate a fully functional oil refinery! Control distillation, manage pipelines, refine fuels, maintain machinery, and optimize production. Balance efficiency, safety, and profits to expand your refinery and dominate the energy market!

2025IndieSimulation14.99 USDWindowsby Polygon Art
Oil Refinery - The Simulation — Steam game cover

Players who liked Oil Refinery - The Simulation also play

Steam players who put hours into Oil Refinery - The Simulation also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Boss Beek-Beekeeping Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Boss Beek is a beekeeping game that allows you to play the role of a beekeeper! You'll have hours of entertainment building hives with the best parts you can find to house the best queens and make the best honey!

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. COPA CITY

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.

    2026SportsStrategySimulation31.49 USDSteam ↗
  3. King of Retail 2

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Build a retail empire across dozens of locations with hundreds of employees. Design every inch of your stores with a deep building tool, then fine-tune pricing, staffing, and product mix to stay profitable. Scale up, customize everything, and manage the details that make or break your bottom line.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 112 Operator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Manage emergency services in any city in the world! Take calls and dispatch rescue forces. Handle difficult situations, now depending on the weather, and traffic. Help the citizens through cataclysms and natural disasters, becoming a better emergency number operator every day!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Brewpub Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Quit your day job, open a bar! Decorate the place, create your own beer and design your labels. Keep your kegs full and your customers happy, and never stop growing!

    2023IndieSimulation17.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

    2022Simulation17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Pharmacy Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Oil Refinery - The Simulation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Experience a realistic pharmacy management experience with Pharmacy Simulator. Set up your shop, decorate it as you wish, and purchase over a hundred types of medications. Pharmacy Simulator offers you an incredibly realistic pharmacy experience. Prove your skills in a challenging economic system.

    2024IndieSimulationEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Oil Refinery - The Simulation at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Oil Refinery - The Simulation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Polygon Art

Other recommendable Steam games by Polygon Art, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Revenge: Rhobar's myth

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    A magical world full of witchcraft and wizardry awaits you!Join the worlds best wizard academy and embark on an exciting, mysterious journey. Learn 4 different and mighty spells to change the world around you, experience a breathtaking plot about the lost wizard Rhobar or challenge yourself in the freeroam mode!

    2015IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Beyond Enemy Lines

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Think your way in, observe the enemies and sneak into their base and complete your objective. You have the total freedom to choose your path - guns blazing or silent assassin - it's your choice! Beyond Enemy Lines is an unforgiving, intense experience where skill and tactical decisions matter!

    2017ActionIndie18.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Take the role of a special agent deployed deep beyond enemy lines where terrain and conditions are barbaric. You will seek, locate and destroy the enemy while causing havoc and confusion. Emerge a hardcore tactical experience in vast, nonlinear missions where skill and tactical decisions matter!

    2019ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ghost Platoon

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Ghost Platoon is a fast-paced, easy-to-pick-up, PvP First Person Shooter with stunning visuals. Built with Unreal Engine 4, this game places emphisis on gunplay and map design. Read the environment and take down your enemy before they get the chance to get you!

    2018Action2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Beyond Enemy Lines: Operation Arctic Hawk

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    Navigate, observe, infiltrate. Free a hostage from an arms dealer, adapt to weather, exploit night's cover. Choose your style - guns blazing or silent assassin. Your call, your skill, your game.

    2019ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Beyond Enemy Lines - Remastered Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    The world is near of nuclear apocalypse, a soviet seperatist group captured the control chip of a military satelite. It is your job to recover the chip! Equipped with state of the art weapons and equipment, you operate in absolute secrecy as a lone wolf far beyond enemy lines.

    2021ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. United Assault - Normandy '44

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    An open world rogue lite FPS set in 1944's depiction of Normandy. Unlock authentic weapons and command a captured Panzer III.

    2021ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Polygon Art, the studio behind Oil Refinery - The Simulation. Shares Indie with Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

    A tactical Vietnam War shooter with open mission areas. Infiltrate, ambush, or go in loud. Customize weapons, use vehicles, and play solo, in coop, or PvP. Create missions with the built-in editor.

    2026ActionIndieEarly Access12.74 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Oil Refinery - The Simulation

How much does Oil Refinery - The Simulation cost?
Oil Refinery - The Simulation is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Oil Refinery - The Simulation?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Oil Refinery - The Simulation are Boss Beek-Beekeeping Simulator, COPA CITY, King of Retail 2.
Who developed Oil Refinery - The Simulation?
Oil Refinery - The Simulation was developed by Polygon Art and published by Polygon Art Publishing.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Oil Refinery - The Simulation.

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