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Players manage oil drilling operations and market fluctuations in this simulation game. Originally launched in 2016, the title maintains a very positive rating based on 5,222 reviews on Steam. It functions as an indie production, demonstrating consistent player engagement over its eight-year history.
Overview
Turmoil is a 2016 Indie game developed by Gamious and published by Gamious. On Steam it has gathered 15,909 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Gamious with publisher Gamious is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 859,000 to 2.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Turmoil can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,909
Positive
93%
Steam appid
361280
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0859K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $6.4M to $14.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Turmoil at roughly 859,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 15,909 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $7.00Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.00 to $12.99, averaging $12.07 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.00 on 2026-03-12.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$12.99 Buy
- GOG.com$12.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$13.58 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
ManagementMiningStrategyTime ManagementResource ManagementTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerAsynchronous MultiplayerSingleplayerRelaxing2DCapitalismEconomyTurn-Based TacticsSimulationIndieReal Time TacticsHistoricalPvEPvP
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Turmoil sold?
- indielist estimates Turmoil has sold between 859,086 and 2,004,534 units (median 1,431,810), derived from its 15,909 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Turmoil?
- Turmoil was developed by Gamious and published by Gamious.
- When was Turmoil released?
- Turmoil was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Turmoil have on Steam?
- Turmoil has 15,909 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Turmoil sold?
- indielist estimates Turmoil has sold between 859,086 and 2,004,534 units (median 1,431,810), derived from its 15,909 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Turmoil?
- Turmoil was developed by Gamious and published by Gamious.
- When was Turmoil released?
- Turmoil was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Turmoil have on Steam?
- Turmoil has 15,909 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Turmoil can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Satisfactory, Captain of Industry, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Gamious's other releases and Gamious's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Turmoil sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Turmoil page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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