Turmoil News

Update: the playtest for version 3.0 has ended. Follow Turmoil on Steam to get notified of future Playtests!

Dear oil entrepreneurs,

It's been quiet here for a long time, and that's about to change!

We've been working hard on a complete rebuild of the game, as well as a version for mobile. And, as promised: a multiplayer campaign!

But before we can roll out all of this good stuff, we need to gradually test if everything is in working order. We could use your help with this! You can find a button on the store page to sign up for a playtest of the new Turmoil. We will soon start this playtest with a limited number of volunteers.

New things we want to test are:

• Replays of the Weekly Challenge
  
• In-game Weekly Challenge leaderboard and history
  
• Tutorial 'videos'
  
• New and improved in-game UI
  
• New languages (Turkish, Korean, Hungarian)
  
• New aspect ratios (no more black bars in 16:9 full screen mode)
  
• Loading screen tips
  
• And hopefully the absence of lots of imperfections from the old version!
  

Depending on how many issues we encounter in the playtest, and how long it takes to solve them, the new version of Turmoil will replace the current one in a little while. Once that version has gone live, a multiplayer playtest will be next. We will soon also share more details about the new version and multiplayer campaign, so stay tuned!

For now: thanks for your patience, and we would appreciate it if you sign up for the playtest. We hope you will be invited to join it soon!

We're happy to announce here that Turmoil is now available for Nintendo Switch! The version for Nintendo Switch includes the base game and the DLC The Heat Is On.

So if you feel like playing Turmoil on your TV or on the go, make sure to get it! There's a special 20% launch discount.

And while we've got your attention, we'll have more exciting news in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

This is a patch for a minor UI issue that allowed players to start campaigns as the wrong character, corrupting the campaign and crashing the game at the first stock auction.

This patch includes the following changes

• Fixed an issue where the game would remember the character you selected when in the DLC character select, then allowing you to start the game as a DLC character in the regular campaign.
  
• Fixed an issue where the stock auction would crash when trying to load a non-existant image.
  

Previous campaigns that were started using the Heat Is On characters will keep the wrong characters but will no longer crash when opening the stock auction.

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Dear oil entrepreneurs old and new,


It's been a while since the last update, but this doesn't mean we that we've stopped working on the game! On the contrary, the success of Turmoil has has only enabled and inspired us to do much more. There are currently several big Turmoil things in the pipeline:


Lots of you have asked for it, and we've always really wanted it ourselves too. To start with, we are aiming for campaigns to be playable against human opponents. These will probably be a shorter version of the original campaigns, with several changes to features like the Stock and Land Auction so that you can play against your friends and others in a turn-based fashion.


The working title that we're using here is 'The Oilympics', and we've got a strong suspicion it will also be the official name. An example of a challenge could be a level in which Left and Right are closed, and then have to mine out all the oil with a limited budget. Each challenge is designed to test your skills in a specific aspect of the game and of course you will be able compete against rival drilling masters on the leaderboards.

Ever wondered why you couldn't get to number one in the Weekly Challenge? With the upcoming replay system you will be able to view how other players went about their business of maximizing profits. And you can also share replays with your friends.

Turmoil on mobile! Turmoil is already available for iPad, but we are now also working on a version for mobile phones (you guys all have one, right? ;), and *drumroll*... Nintendo Switch. Nintendo conveniently gave the left and right Switch controllers the same color as the Left and Right Inc. buildings, so who are we to neglect such an obvious hint?

While we're happy to share this news right now, there's a difference with what we have in store and what's available in the store. It will take quite some time to get multiplayer working, we have to rebuild the game from scratch for that. So don't expect any of this in 2018. The release on Switch will probably be the first of this list, somewhere in Q1 or Q2 of 2019.


In the meantime! If you’d like to play another game where you have to move liquid from one place to another, you might want keep an eye on our puzzle game Briquid. It’s one of the first games we ever made, and it will now also be available on Steam, on December 6th. You can check it out here.