Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 09:30 pm
Turmoil – Strategy Game Review
Turmoil is a Strategy/Simulation game from Xiamen Leiting Network Technology Co., Ltd., first launched in 10th January 2022.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 19,549+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Turmoil Stand Out
Turmoil is a casual business simulation game inspired by the oil rush in 19th-century North America. It is developed by Dutch game studio Gamious and published by LTGames. In Turmoil, you are up against time and rivals on your path to becoming a succesful oil entrepreneur. Start raking in the oil money and watch the town grow along with you!
[Game Features]
*Real-Time Strategy, Oil Field Management
Acquire land at the town auction, and uncover oil with dowsers, moles, or scans. Create an efficient pipe network to get the oil above ground, and buy wagons and silos to transport and store it. Wait for the right price to sell, or use natural gas to raise the oil price yourself!
*Upgrade Technology, Expand Your Connections
There are dozens of upgrades and new tools that will improve your oil drilling operation. You will need them to drill through rocks, deal with natural gas pockets, and prevent oil spillage! Don't forget to visit the saloon, the people there may have some very juicy business proposals for you!
*Buy Stocks, Become a Mayor
Start from the bottom and rise to the top! Turmoil is not all about money, you also need town shares. Use your hard-earned cash to outbid your rivals at the stock auction and become the new mayor to win the game!
*Randomly Seeded World, Challenge Your Limits
Different settings and randomly generated levels provide an almost unlimited variety of oil-drilling challenges. Challenge other players to find out who's the real deal!
*The Heat Is On, Get Ready for the New DLC!
An entirely new campaign offers you the same oil-drilling fun, but with challenging twists and interesting bonuses. The addition of magma in the underground creates danger but also offers opportunies. You can also find underground artefacts and sell them in the village, but collecting them all might be more profitable! Play card games in the saloon to earn even more money!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Turmoil is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
"Deeper Underground" New DLC is Out Now! A brand-new water resource is available, doubling the profit of synthetic gasoline. Delve into the new deep drilling gameplay – complete depth challenges to earn greater rewards! The tavern also features a new dice-rolling mini-game, alongside new NPCs and playable characters. Bosses, come and unlock the wealth of the gasoline era!
Download & Availability
Turmoil 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:
Months later we came back and tried the new update and we loved it! This game is so much fun the user interface is clean with rarely a bug! Im happy to see the developers havent abandoned this game or turned it into seasonal pass headaches. Please keep creating more game modes. Its fairly reasonable to purchase each mode.
Its really fun and awesome in the campaign till we found out we cant keep playing without spending 3 dollars which makes our life harder.
The oil rigs will be spilling over while the wagons are filling up from the tanks! Or going past overflowing rigs to fill from almost empty rigs. Can you fix these issues.
Our favorite part is the randomness of the oil wells. Changes the game every time, and theres a bit of a eureka moment when the oil is struck.
Super fun but gas expand doesnt work in the heat mode dont know what Im doing wrong or if broken tried everything.
So after we finished the campaign all the thing did was constantly ask us to get the full game which (we are not getting over priced).
This game is one of our favorites but please add more to it.
Best oil game Ive ever played not joking.
The game is one of the most addictive games we have ever played it just has amazing game play for every way you can play it but we dont really like how you have to pay to play past the start but great game and we hope for more soon.
But u have to pay for the game to be fun and ad free.
Engaging fun and kinda of challenging great to play when trying to go to sleep or to pass time at work or if you are just bored and trying to kill time. Def worth it.
Good fun game however does a game that maxes out at 60fps crash constantly and randomly on a m4 device.
The game is really fun but you do need to pay some for the full thing.
This game is super fun but we wish we could play without wifi. Everytime we do it tries to make us re buy the game since it cant connect.
Game is fun, only thing we hate is we can not play offline even though we have purchased the full version.
Yeah title explains it all but always fun.
We used to really enjoy playing this game, but we hadnt played for probably six months or so. So we decided to play today and when we started playing, it would just randomly cut to a black screen. We tried restarting our device and removing the game and reinstalling it, but it is still a persistent issue. We dont know what they did since the last time we played this game but theyve completely broken it. We would of left feedback in their game application, but there is no option to give feedback, so we have no choice but to leave a bad review here and hope that they fix the game.
We would pay for this game if there were updates. There are none.
Played through the first campaign with zero issues. Bought the second campaign, and we can barely get through two levels before it crashes consistently four or five times in a row making us start the same level over and over again.
This game is pretty good but the only problem we have with it is that there is an ad on YouTube shorts that has the most annoying person narrating it. Dude sounds like hes forcing his voice to be a teenager while also dying. That one ad is the only reason we refuse to buy this game.
We bought the full version of this game back in January or February of this year. We went to go play it today because o was bored and it wont let us play for long bc its telling us to purchase the full version again.
This game was fun for a few minutes, but we think its crazy how you have to pay money to even play for more than 20 minutes, and you literally have to watch ads to even play the game. We understand that the developers do it to get more money, but you would attract more players if you just made the ads optional and allow the full game for free. Im sorry, but we dont recommend this for players who want to have a mobile game that they can play for a long time. We think you would attract more players if you fix these issues, and sorry again for complaining.
Its an enjoyable game, but the biggest downside is that when you buy the full version it still needs WiFi to verify that you bought it. Making it an extremely inconvenient offline game to play :/.
We dont want a dlc on a game we already paid for.
We bought the full version years ago but now it wont let us continue without purchasing full version with no way to restore purchases. We even tried to buy the full version again but it wont advance the process. Great game but broken now.
Game is broken, randomly goes to a black screen – unable to continue.
Seems like a good game, however you only have a short free trial. If you want to play any more than the first little bit you must spend $2.99 or watch an ad.
Not sure if this mechanic is working properly?? Seems like our drills still dont drill through the rock.
To continue to campaign you have to pay three dollars if this was free, it would be five stars.
The buttons are glitchy and all the stuff doesnt work really so yeah. We dont think its meant for mobile.
Took a couple playthroughs to beat the game on both normal and expert. Definitely worth the $3, got lots of playtime out of this one.
We loved the game even though it didnt say it costed money for full version we dont think but anyway its only 3.25$ so worth it in our opinion.
Turmoil is a fun casual business simulator that takes place during the American oil rush. Its mechanics involve drilling for oil on different plots of land you compete for throughout the game. It has lots of replay value trying to outperform other computer players who run rival oil companies. Its easy to learn, fun, and has NO SURPRISE MICRO-TRANSACTIONS which hinder gameplay. All in game items can be comfortably earned through in game currency. No spending 20$ just to unlock the good items.
Great game give us more levels or some ad ons.
Ive been playing this game off and on for over a year, and we love it. Its fun, relaxing, and not super challenging. Ive won expert mode countless times at this point and Im ready for an expansion, new levels, new campaigns. PLEASE add more to this game.
We like playing this game but lately as soon as we start a game it goes total black screen and dont fix.
We absolutely love this game. We normally dont write reviews on games but this one deserves the 5 stars. We just have one negative thing to say, when you have one pump half of your wagons wait at the other side of the map making them useless, they will stand idle while the pump has spillage. Im assuming its because typically people have two pumps, but we usually use one. Im hoping this gets seen. We dont understand why half our wagons wait at the other side of the map :/.
This is a very fun game and, in our opinion, worth the money.
This is the perfect strategy game. Theres some continuity and skill, but you can pick it up at your leisure throughout the day. Dont go for other games that require subscriptions or ads. This one is worth your money for hours of fun. Well done! We see why its so well rated and reviewed.
This was the most fun game to play that we own! Really worth the time and money Ive had it for about 1-2 years now and won the game. It has been a long time since than but was definitely worth it in the end. We might have to try this challenge mode soon! Most definitely a memorable game for us, there are no ads and yet perfect. Such a simple game, Im super glad that we got the opportunity to play this.
This game is probly in our top 3 of all time. Turmoil is super fun and relaxing, and there is little to no adds unlike other games-great job on that;). We generally lov.
We played and played this game. Our only complaint is that requires a connection to play. If there is another expansion with very likely get it.
A game that is a realistic oil company but the game will get all youre personal and media information about you and sell it.
Played the free portion and had fun although we are broke we will check back when we buy the full version.
We love the game, but theres no audio. We set the dials to 100% in the audio settings, but still have no audio on the menu screen or during gameplay.
Please add mute or volume control for music and audio. Thanks.
This game is really good, but one mistake, the game is only japanese! We wish this had english mode because not everyone speaks japanese.
Turmoil is an amazing game to play if your into history or even just bored. About 30-an hour worth of play straight, if youre not paying for the full version. Its an amazing game with well thought and animation, but we physically cant pay up 2 bucks for some game. We would, if we could. It disappointed us due to the pop up. We were doing amazing, we had nearly 30,000. And then we couldnt progress without paying. We highly understand why, however. A game without ads at all still needs to make money. Id still love it just as much if it had one ad after every level! However, we must restart every single time we get the pop up.
It was fun until it hit us with the pay to play the rest of the game, would have been a great game but we dont like games that seem free until you have to pay to unlock the full version.
Half of the games we do during the campaign black out yet the music and noises continue. We have to exit out of the game completely for the game to work again and all of our progress for the one bit of land Ive bought is lost. The only complaint we have.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.11
- Size: 593.95 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Xiamen Leiting Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Last updated: 1st October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Xiamen Leiting Network Technology Co., Ltd.