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Peak Oil

down to the oil reserves

You are a CEO of an oil company and need to prepare your company for a future without oil. The last oil reserves need to be depleted and you must invest in oil replacement technologies. As active player you first move an agent OR implement an action and then you move an agent. Additionally, you can then pay two barrels to move one other agent. Action cases are Expand with options Recruit or Dispatch, Develop with Drill or Whitewash, Invest with Start-Ups or Technologies, Grey Ops wit Black market or Consultants and Shipping. When the bag is empty of black barrels, Peak Oil has happened, and oil is depleted.

The active player at this points turns over his headquarter card and completes his turn. you with most points at the end of a final round. All other players can relocate one of their agents. Then, action cases in order of Expand, Develop, Regions, Investments and Grey Ops are checked - if you have at least one agent in such a slot, you can use one action option of the slot. Then you score for start ups and consultant cards in headquarter and lose points for open PR Crisis cards and win with the then highest score.

In the advanced version CRUDE, you play without PR Crisis cards and consultants, other rules changes relate to color of barrels, actions and PR Crisis as well as the actions Consultant, Drilling and Start Up.

A very structured game with lots of strategy and interaction; the topic has been implemented remarkably well and with very good graphics; you can personalize your company with the consultant cards. The game end, however, is easily predicted and is played with somewhat changed rules.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Tobias Gohrbandt, Heiko Günther

Art: Heiko Günther

Price: ca. 52 Euro

Publisher: 2Tomatoes 2017

Web: www.2tomatoes.com

Genre: Worker placement, economy 

Users: For experts

Version: de en + es fr nl

Rules: yes

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Rare topic

Streamlined game with lots of depth

Clean, rather minimalistic design

Good rules

Lots of strategy and interaction

Compares to:

Worker Placement games

Other editions:

2Tomatoes (es fr)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0