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CreativeForge Games · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 61 % positive of 165 reviews, as of Oct 28

Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.

24 games that play like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Turmoil, Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) and Gold Mining Simulator.

Player tags

  • Simulation
  • Casual
  • Automation
  • Resource Management
  • Building
  • Realistic
  • Crafting
  • Management
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Plays and looks like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Pumping Simulator 290 % positive of 1,652Shared: Simulation · Resource Management · Building
  2. Factorio97 % positive of 193,208Shared: Simulation · Automation · Resource Management
  3. Captain of Industry90 % positive of 11,203Shared: Simulation · Automation · Resource Management
  4. Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue66 % positive of 309Shared: Simulation · Realistic · Management
  5. Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm78 % positive of 41,314Shared: Simulation · Realistic · Management
  6. Game Dev Tycoon95 % positive of 40,410Shared: Simulation · Management · Economy
  7. Ore Factory Squad ⛏️86 % positive of 1,892
  8. MineMogul96 % positive of 4,480
  9. Sludgineers86 % positive of 2,068Shared: Simulation · Resource Management · Management
  10. Mr.Mine90 % positive of 18,720Shared: Simulation · Resource Management · Building
  11. Blueprint Tycoon81 % positive of 997Shared: Simulation · Automation · Resource Management
  12. Groundwork Simulator67 % positive of 780Shared: Simulation · Resource Management · Building

By look

Looks like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

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  1. Derail Valley95 % positive of 9,569
  2. Alaska Gold Fever79 % positive of 1,035
  3. Zompiercer88 % positive of 4,667
  4. Wild West Miner Simulator68 % positive of 219
  5. ICARUS74 % positive of 56,595
  6. Hurtworld76 % positive of 23,625
  7. Colony 3796 % positive of 232
  8. Transport Fever82 % positive of 9,306
  9. Railroad Corporation75 % positive of 1,098
  10. Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut87 % positive of 1,693
  11. Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy80 % positive of 7,472
  12. Surviving the Aftermath71 % positive of 3,157

At a glance

What games like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator: Simulation (20 of 24), Resource Management (14) and Building (8).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, none of them after Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sandustry (97 % positive of 5,608).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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