Games like OIL.EXE
If OIL.EXE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Traders Tycoon, God of Stocks and Silicon Architect — 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.
Get personalized picks →About OIL.EXE: Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Players who liked OIL.EXE also play
Steam players who put hours into OIL.EXE 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.
Traders Tycoon
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Top pick for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
Start with £100 and trade your way to running a global financial empire. Trade simulated Crypto, Stocks, and Forex markets in real-time, automate your strategy with custom trading bots, build a 10-player trading firm with friends, and climb the live leaderboards.
God of Stocks
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Second-strongest match for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
An incremental management game about manipulating the market to get filthy rich. Buy low, sell high, chain absurd combos and earn divine blessings from stock market gods. Will you play it safe or risk everything?
Silicon Architect
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Third-strongest match for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.
Market Chain 98
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Ranked #4 for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
Build your Market Chain in this retro incremental game set inside a nostalgic 90s operating system. Start with a small shop, manage bank loans, expand your logistics hubs, and unlock global upgrades through your Portfolio. Fill your desktop with windows and dominate the market!
Hover Idle: Grid Master
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Ranked #5 for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
Destroy a grid of blocks just by hovering! Earn Gold, XP, and unlock 5 deep upgrade categories. Deploy idle helpers for passive gains, use unique block perks, reset via Prestige, and conquer challenging Tiers. Customize your background and unlock Steam achievements!
Boardroom
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Ranked #6 for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with OIL.EXE.
Build. Grow. Dominate. A deep CEO simulator for finance professionals and ambitious founders, run your own finance firm and turn it into a formidable giant in the world of finance!
Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon
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Ranked #7 for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.
Fund Manager: Buy Side
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Ranked #8 for OIL.EXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with OIL.EXE.
An asset-management simulation about other people's money. Raise capital into a public ETF and a private fund, earn fees, and grow the firm. Three worlds move on rates, FX, commodities and earnings — not random numbers — and every price is a trade between thousands of bots on a live order book.
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Frequently asked about OIL.EXE
- Is OIL.EXE free to play?
- Yes — OIL.EXE is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to OIL.EXE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside OIL.EXE are Traders Tycoon, God of Stocks, Silicon Architect.
- Who developed OIL.EXE?
- OIL.EXE was developed by Subroutine Gaming.
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.EXE.
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