Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 09:05 am
Oilman! – Game Review
Oilman! is a game from Voodoo, first launched in 24th September 2021.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 18,390+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Oilman! Stand Out
Upgrade your pickaxe and dig harder to go deeper.
Will you reveal all the secrets of the lands and pump out all the Oil?
This game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Oilman! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fix!
Download & Availability
Oilman! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its a good game but like just remove halftime it ruins it like it would be a way way way better game if halftime was a thing so if you dont mind add every five seconds then we think its OK for you but literally.
Game is kind of fun but man they really want you to buy no ads. If you wanna play for free understand you will get pop up adds every 30 seconds no matter what you are doing and your character will continue doing it in the background. These ads are on top of every ad you must watch to open chests or special items. We know its every 30 seconds because we started timing it. This many ads absolutely ruin the game. And the game itself is not worth $2.99 to get rid of them. The developer would be better to either make the game paid outright or only have adds to get special items or at special points. The amount of adds that pop up during gameplay is ridiculous.
We downloaded this game a few months ago and was totally fun to play when we had to kill some time. Stopped playing for a month and then updated it and tried to play it. We always disconnected our wifi and mobile so we wouldnt get ads popping up(although we didnt get many) and now you cannot even play game unless your connected to internet and every 10 steps you get a ad that wastes minimum 30 seconds. Makes this game not worth playing anymore.
Might be some information you should include in the description. Such an ad driven app that you cannot play if the cant push ads in your face every 3 minutes or less. Played for 10 minutes and was forced into 5 ads, one by choice. Zero stars if possible. Game seemed to be a relaxing zone out type of enjoyment. But with so many ads you dont even get to enjoy it. Would never buy a game that forces you to watch ads like that.
We like the game but only giving 1 star for the ads every 5 seconds.. You spend more time watching ads than you do playing the game and its pointless to play unless you pay to remove the ads. So if you LOVE ads literally every 5 seconds DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.
Game would be fun if it didnt force us to watch an ad every 10 seconds. The fact that we cant play on airplane mode so we can bypass the ads is the reason why we deleted the game. We would have fun playing this if the ads werent forced upon us.
The game is fun but just way too many adds.
This game is unplayable. We get that ads generate revenue for the game, but this has got to be the most egregious developer greed of any game Ive played. It literally plays an ad every 30-45 seconds – no matter what youre doing in the game. And, if youre on a plane, you cant play without an Internet connection, because, well, they cant make money off forcing ads to you without a network connection. Sure, we can pay to get rid of ads, but we wont do that if we dont know if we even like the game. It seems kind of boring in the 5 minutes of game time (and 10 minutes of ads we watched) over the last 15 minutes.
We paid to remove ads and they still pop up and sometimes cause the screen to go black. Paid for nothing.
Idle pump glitches too often and doesnt produce the right amount. Otherwise great game. Please fix.
We like the idea. We like the look and feel. We dont like the following: 1) To begin cutting rock in the first level, you have to watch an ad. Of course, maybe Im just impatient. We let our little dude swing away at the rock with a level 1 axe for 120 hits (about a full minute) and didnt break anything. Watched an ad for a level 2 upgrade and it breaks rock every swing. Seems like forcing ad watches for progression, and Im not that guy. 2) Random ads pop up and interrupt you ever two minutes or so. Im not that guy, either. 3) Ads also play at the bottom of the screen. Heres the thing: Im a dev. We get it. Just maybe cool it with the ads so we can check a game out before you start trying to squeeze pennies out of us. Then, if we like it, Ill spend actual money and you get paid. Regardless, the game idea was pretty cool. Just our $0.02 :).
Not only does the game feel cheap (graphics, clunky movement, etc) but if you spend all of your money upgrading your pick (before and after picking out all of the gold), you have no money to put a pipe down into the well. You can never leave the island because it takes $100 (already spent on pick upgrades) or empty the oil wells (which you cant since it cost $10 to put down a pipe). Who play-tested this game.
Every 45 seconds to a minute theres an ad. Its not that fun to deal with that. Trash developer tbh.
We really enjoyed the game at first. We got a little tired of the ads so we purchased the no ads thing and after that we kept getting ads. 10x worst even.
Cannot progress without upgrading, upgrading always costs ads.
We purchased the no ad pack and Im still getting ads.
First off, Im going to say that this game is pretty entertaining. Its the kind of mindless game that you could play to kill some time/boredom. Now onto the reason that it gets only one star..as you start getting into doing any thing on this game, every 30 seconds it goes into an ad (like all voodoo games). Now we know that you can pay to remove the ads for $3.99 or some nonsense but to us, Id rather play a short beginning to a game and pay for the full version than be interrupted every 30 seconds with 30 seconds of ads.
The ads are ridiculous. At first it was okay but after a while you just want to see maybe one or two adds each island. Not every time you move. Dont get us wrong the games fun but as far as keeping it on our phone to relax? No thank you.
Voodoo we use to love your games but now everything requires internet so we can rewatch the same adds over and over and over for only 3 minutes of gameplay. So sad you are now a sell out and a trash developer.
Do not get this we waited a day to ours nothing happened soooooooooooo bad the worse thing ever.
So we load into the game for the first time and nothing is working so Im just sitting there trying to ours for like 10 minutes and there must have been 5 ads already.
The concept is good, the graphics and gameplay are good. But when youre in the middle of digging an ad pops up. Less than two minutes later another ad pops up. Another two minutes and another ad pops up. We know why, because someone wants money to stop the ads. And because of this, we deleted it. Im sorry but we refuse to pay to play these kind of games.
We recently found this game from an ad on TikTok so we decided to get it. It is really fun and entertaining but when you upgrade sometimes you have to watch an ad to upgrade for free. But everything else is amazing. Great game we totally recommend it.
Its a fun game but the ads pop up every 30 seconds it seems like. The ads then glitch and you have to restart the game. To the creator, youre at a 10 with the ads. Bring it down to a 5.
So like any sensible person we attempted to turn off the WiFi so it 1. Wouldnt take data and 2. Wouldnt interrupt our gameplay with ads. We watch ads when it gives a reward but we dont want an ad every 10 seconds when we move around. It is ridiculous you may as well play Game Of War. At least there arent ads in that. We understand that the main income of the game is ads, however this is still ridiculous. The amount and frequency of the ads is way too high and they need to be lowered. Ill gladly occasionally watch an ad, just not every 10 seconds mid game.
The gameplay is very simple and boring . And you get an ad every like 20 seconds.
The game itself is fun, just it seems like every time you turn around theres another ad. Its not worth playing for 30-45 seconds just to turn around and watch another ad.
They wont let you play offline so they can shove an aggressive amount of ads in your face.
We loved this game till latest update you actually added video ads to collecting chests. Just deleted.
To many ads = unplayable we understand having some to help support the creation and funding yet every 10-15 seconds there is an ad. You will actually spend more time in ads then the game.
Every 10 seconds we would play we would get an ad and when you dont have very good internet it just freezes then closes the game on its own.
This game is unplayable as it gives ads every 30 seconds with no warning at all. Completely ruins the game. Im fine with ads between levels but not multiple ads back to back in the middle of a level.
We like the game a lot, but it has so much publicity that we prefer not to play, approximately every 60 seconds a video appears and we have to wait for it to pass to continue playing, we love the game, but we can't play like this, if they put less publicity and pamper themselves more in the player, it was incredible, thanks us gusta mucho el juego , pero tiene tanta publicidad que prefiero no jugar , aproximadamente cada 60 segundos aparece un video y debo esperar a que pase para seguir jugando ,us encanta el juego , pero as no puedo jugar , si pusieran menos publicidad y se concentrarn mas en el jugador , fuera increble , gracias.
Over all good game but every five mins ads and to pay for no ads is crazy.
Theres an ad every 45 seconds in this game. Its insane. You cant even go a full minute of gameplay without having to watch a 15-30 second ad. Each ad is longer than the amount of gameplay you have until the next interruption for a commercial. Had to delete the game.
Its a really fun game but there are WAY TOO MANY ADDS. We ended up deleting the game because of all the adds.
We paid three dollars to remove the ads from the game and its pointless. Now it makes us watch an ad every time we want to open a treasure chest. We still end up watching the same amount of ads as before but now Im out three dollars its ridiculous.
Oh, want to play? Sorry.. Ads! Upgrade stuff.. Nope! Ads! Invasive all over the place floating in and out covering the screen Sorry.. Would give no stars if it were an option. Booooo.
We loved this ad free game to pass time. It was great. Now everything has to got with an ad. We understand making money but imo went from perfect to deleted. Bummer.
We got to the point where we would download any ads on this game and play that instead. So many ads.
Quit asking for reviews if all you are going to do is show us ads.
TOO. MANY. ADS. Cant move our dude 10 steps without ad showing up . Ad here ad there here there here there here GO AWAY and do you really need internet to play this game now come on :/airplane mode dont work for this game.
Dont play the game and if you do dont pay for anything you wont get it.
Game is super laggy and crashes randomly.
Yeah we paid to remove the adds and it was fine for months, until now when we break and chest or barrel we have to watch an add if we want to get whats inside instead of before when we would just get the prize. Also our idol oil never actually builds up and our progress doesnt save, if we buy extra levels like 4 & 5 then back out and kill the app when we log back in we have to buy the levels again.
There are so many ads that it stops the game from working sometimes.stop with the ads.
We were just a new update the game and now we have the watch in wasnt like that before especially if you already pay for the ads so its like who wants to stay there because someone else its like seven things you can get and white 7/8 please take this away we dont its not good it makes us really want to play a game.
We find the game enjoyable to pass the time. The bad news is every third add the app freezes up and will not respond. Until the app is closed and reopened.
Love the game, but there are SO MANY ADS, it makes it almost impossible to make progress. We would like to at least be able to clear a level of the ours before the next ad. Or Ive had it so that there are 2 ads back to back when trying to collect a reward- one for the reward and then one for the game Im assuming? Maybe half the ads would make the game more enjoyable to play and actually make progress. We think its ridiculous to flood us with ads to force us to purchase no ads.
There are too many ads it is still fun but we get frozen and kicked so please make it so there are like 10 per hour.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 426.57 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Voodoo
Last updated: 17th October 2025 | Genre: | Developer: Voodoo