Yes — Oil Wars is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is Oil Wars Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates Oil Wars Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play Oil Wars on Mac?

Not natively — Steam lists no macOS version of Oil Wars. Mac players would need a cloud gaming service or a Windows compatibility layer.

Is Oil Wars on PC Game Pass?

No — Oil Wars is not on PC Game Pass right now.

Oil Wars

Oil Wars Team · March 21, 2020 · Free to Play, Strategy, Simulation, Adventure, Casual

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Oil Wars is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Oil Wars

Resources define wars, whoever controls oil will control the world. Army want to invade this lands, but rebels, need to defend it at all cost.

In this strategy and simulation game, set in modern era you will be faced to enemies for control of oil refinery and strategic resource locations.

You can use two different factions with unique units and different strategy, the key is to have control over map resources.

Features:

-Simulation based gameplay, build your base and gather resources.
-Action combat with multiple military vehicles like tanks, and other artillery.
-Multiple interesting map locations like forest, desert and city ruins.
-Story based missions with different objectives.

Oil Wars — game info

Platforms: Windows
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player, Online PvP, LAN
PC Game Pass: Not included

DLC & expansions

Oil Wars - Supporter Pack

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 1, 2024

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Recommended Jul 5, 2024

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Recommended Nov 8, 2025

Игра 'Oil Wars' - это затягивающая стратегия с простым, но увлекательным геймплеем. Сражения за нефтяные вышки динамичные и требуют быстрого принятия решений, а разнообразие юнитов и улучшений позволяет экспериментировать с тактиками. Графика хоть и пиксельная, но выполнена стильно и приятно глазу. Единственный минус - иногда игра может показаться немного однообразной, особенно после длительной игры. Хотелось бы больше режимов игры и разнообразия карт. Тем не менее, за свою цену 'Oil Wars' предлагает отличную реиграбельность и доставляет массу удовольствия. Любителям стратегий рекомендую!

Recommended Feb 27, 2023

[h1]Before I played Oil Wars, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Recommended Apr 28, 2022

Well is free.(Not recommend for ''young''player)

Recommended Dec 7, 2021

this is best game! This amazing game! Best Strategy game! Esports! Esports! Go Oil Wars!

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