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Oil Strike '75

Oil Strike '75

Get ready to earn while you learn in Oil Strike ’75, a fun, exciting, and educational new game from Cadal Corp! Run an oil rig and discover new oil deposits at the bottom of the sea – no matter the cost. Who knows what you’ll find in the official prequel to Still Wakes the Deep?

Released May 9, 2024 Developer Sumo Digital Academy Publisher Secret Mode Platforms Windows Side ScrollerSimulation2D PlatformerText-BasedSingleplayer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-27)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.

95.3%positive127 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Oil Strike '75 is a weird little game that caught me off guard because it starts out looking like a simple oil drilling simulator and then turns into something much stranger. It is set up as an in universe training game from Cadal Corp, where I am working on an oil rig and…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Oil Strike '75 is a compact and deliberately strange mixture of simulation, platforming, minigames, and corporate satire that becomes much more interesting once its cheerful educational facade begins to crack. Developed by Sumo Digital Academy and published by Secret Mode, it…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Not sure what happened, but it took 23 minutes.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.

27achievements
38.3%median completion
18.3%rarest: A Full Education
87.9% of players 87.9% of players 70.3% of players 67.1% of players 66.1% of players 65.9% of players 59.6% of players 59.3% of players 59.2% of players 57.8% of players 56.3% of players 54.3% of players 43.7% of players 38.3% of players 36.0% of players 33.6% of players 29.5% of players 28.2% of players 26.5% of players 24.9% of players 22.1% of players 21.6% of players 21.5% of players 20.8% of players 20.3% of players 19.8% of players 18.3% of players 87.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
87.9%Easy Oil — Complete 1 level of any minigame.
87.9%The First Of Many — Hidden achievement
70.3%Refracturing — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
18.3%A Full Education — Hidden achievement
19.8%Passing With Flying Grades — Complete all 15 levels on hard mode.
20.3%Higher Education — Complete 10 different levels on hard mode.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 05, 2025
Quiet the Seas with Oil Strike ‘75

Imagine living with a giant hammer pounding inside your house, an underground train rumbling nonstop beneath your floor and a car alarm screaming right next to you - day and night. You couldn’t sleep,

Dec 05, 2024
Drilling deeper STILL into the making of Oil Strike '75

Today, we're pleased to share the concluding episodes #3 and #4 of the Oil Strike '75 developer diary series, and the project's ties to to this year's celebrated narrative-horror Still Wakes the Deep

Oct 18, 2024
Drill deeper into the making of Oil Strike '75

In August we admitted the big secret: Oil Strike '75 was developed by the Sumo Digital Academy, and players who bury beneath the surface will discover more than a few references to this year's celebra

Aug 15, 2024
It's time we come clean about Oil Strike '75

The secret's been spilled! Today we're confirming what many of you discovered: that Oil Strike '75 is a companion title to Still Wakes the Deep , developed by the 2023/2024 cohort of the Sumo Digital

Jun 04, 2024
Version 1.01

Bug fixes associated with "So Close" and "Cutting Corners" achievements.

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresAction, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play
Player tagsSide Scroller · Simulation · 2D Platformer · Text-Based · Singleplayer · Management · Pixel Graphics · Platformer · Free to Play · Economy · Incremental · Capitalism (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements27
Official sitehttps://stillwakesthedeep.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: i3-4th Generation Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intergrated DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 100 MB available space Sound Card: Intergrated