Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator puts you directly into the muddy boots of a pioneer hunting for great wealth. This first-person management game does not hand you success—you earn it with sweat, grease, and relentless ambition.
It is actually a really nice game, but I had finished it after just 6 hours, and the motivation to keep playing tends toward 0, since you have really seen everything by then,
As is typical for simulation games, you start by cleaning up the house. After that, you rebuild the first oil derrick. Cut down trees for building materials, hire people, buy barrels, and stuff the forest into the steam engine.
As the game progresses, you keep expanding. New production facilities, additional oil derricks, and a train station that holds up to 75,000 gallons of diesel for transportation by train.
There is a lot of grinding involved, but later you build a logging cabin and develop an ore mine, which makes things more pleasant.
But not much more happens after that. After a good 5 hours, my main activity was walking around with an oil can and lubricating squeaky mechanisms. Failures, damage, maintenance, or fixed delivery contracts might have given the game more depth here.
As I said, it is a really nice game for 5–6 hours, but after that it becomes monotonous and boring.
All achievements can be earned within that time.
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