In the world of Oiligarchy, addiction is the goal.

For the money you make exploring for oil in Oiligarchy, you’ll buy influence with both political parties in the US to access new countries to exploit. The events are roughly based on 20:th century reality, acting as an irreverent history lesson about all the times oil influence has incited wars and corruption, pollution of pristine ecosystems and how it developed the global oil addiction that lets it clings to power to this day. While they can’t always take the story 100% literally, players are sure to come away with both a renewed sense of outrage at the widespread corruption, and a clearer idea of the weak points that will eventually bring about its end. Postmortem here.