Aug 17, 2026 · 3 hr 4 min · 11 segments
It's time for a fresh episode of the podcast, where this time the hosts collect to discuss the summer joy that is the HLTB Community Event Itchmas in July! Play along as Roy decides if he's actually…
I will start off by saying the only games I beat during this are the Itchmas games, which we're going to discuss later.
So I'm going to be kind of not having anything to say this week.
I only have a few this time as well.
Other than the Itchmas games, I beat a game called Turmoil, which is actually an older game about drilling for oil.
And it's like a roguelike oil drilling competitive game.
You can play it multiplayer, but I played it single player, and it's you against... four other oil barons who you bid for plots of land on a map and you then also bid for shares in the entire kind of town.
And you go out each day or week or whatever the time period is.
I think it's a year actually.
And you can hire dudes to go look for oil.
You drop oil rigs and you drill underground and you pick up the oil and you cart it back to sell.
And it's like a 2D screen.
And on either side of the screen are two companies and their prices go up and down all the time.
So you have to kind of match the economy as well and store oil or sell it.
And it's, it sounds kind of funky, but it's really, really compelling gameplay because there's a lot of factors to it and everything.
And timing is really a part of it because the time keeps ticking over as well.
And you have to kind of, whatever you don't achieve in that year, you lose any oil you didn't sell, you lose any oil you didn't mine and all that kind of thing.
And there's lots and lots of variants.
Then in between years, you upgrade your stuff.
And you get better oil rigs, better horse and carts to transfer it.
And you can bribe people to keep the price above a certain price.
And all this kind of stuff.
And it's just a really compelling game.
It was surprisingly compelling.
Because I picked it up kind of cheap.
And just thought, I'll give this a go.
I will start off by saying the only games I beat during this are the Itchmas games, which we're going to discuss later.
So I'm going to be kind of not having anything to say this week.
I only have a few this time as well.
Other than the Itchmas games, I beat a game called Turmoil, which is actually an older game about drilling for oil.
And it's like a roguelike oil drilling competitive game.
You can play it multiplayer, but I played it single player, and it's you against... four other oil barons who you bid for plots of land on a map and you then also bid for shares in the entire kind of town.
And you go out each day or week or whatever the time period is.
I think it's a year actually.
And you can hire dudes to go look for oil.
You drop oil rigs and you drill underground and you pick up the oil and you cart it back to sell.
And it's like a 2D screen.
And on either side of the screen are two companies and their prices go up and down all the time.
So you have to kind of match the economy as well and store oil or sell it.
And it's, it sounds kind of funky, but it's really, really compelling gameplay because there's a lot of factors to it and everything.
And timing is really a part of it because the time keeps ticking over as well.
And you have to kind of, whatever you don't achieve in that year, you lose any oil you didn't sell, you lose any oil you didn't mine and all that kind of thing.
And there's lots and lots of variants.
Then in between years, you upgrade your stuff.
And you get better oil rigs, better horse and carts to transfer it.
And you can bribe people to keep the price above a certain price.
And all this kind of stuff.
And it's just a really compelling game.
It was surprisingly compelling.
Because I picked it up kind of cheap.
And just thought, I'll give this a go.
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