Review
Peak Oil: Profiteer
Peak Oil: Profiteer is the welcome exception from a publisher that had not quite won me over before. It is short, direct and properly nasty once the table fills up.
- Published
- 2022
- Designer
- Tobias Gohrbandt, Heiko Günther
- Publisher
- 2Tomatoes Games, Giochix.it
- Players
- 1–5
- Playing time
- 60 min
Two Tomatoes had previously given me solid production and perfectly serviceable play, but nothing that really stuck. Peak Oil: Profiteer earned the final chance I gave it: it is short, works very well with five, and is far more honest than I expected.
Everyone runs a company trying to finish with the most money. You get there through weapons, oil, markets and control of local rulers in a banana republic. The theme does not spend even a second pretending anyone is here to do good.
Peak Oil: Profiteer earned the final chance I gave it: it is short, works very well with five, and is far more honest than I expected.
TheCuttlefish
The structure is simple and easy to pick up, but the decisions are not polite. You steal leaders, take oil and wreck somebody’s plan just as they thought they had it sorted. At five, it becomes a proper scramble: reversals keep coming, and nobody gets to hold on to what they thought was theirs.
This is not a game that wants admiration from across the room. It wants you involved, getting your hands dirty and bothering your friends. Peak Oil: Profiteer has earned the BLTG seal of approval from me.
Peak Oil: Profiteer has earned the BLTG seal of approval from me.
TheCuttlefish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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