Oligopoly: Industrial Revolution

Released: Oct 5, 2018
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 05:08 GMT

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20 posts

19 Oct 2018Developer post
Patch #16
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I overhauled the whole balancing of the game. Some people found it hard to make enough money at the beginning of a mission to keep on playing, this is now drastically improved. Small cities do now buy more products relative to bigger cities (e.g. sales
05 Oct 2018Developer post
Out of early access
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce that Oligopoly is now out of early access. Big thanks to the community for all of their valuable feedback. Additions added the ability to disable edge scrolling in the settings Improvements rearranged the missions of the first cam
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I am happy to announce that Oligopoly is now out of early access. Big thanks to the community for all of their valuable feedback.
Additions

added the ability to disable edge scrolling in the settings
Improvements

rearranged the missions of the first campaign
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27 Sep 2018Developer post
HUGE EA patch #15: translations (French, Italian, Spanish) + weather system + many improvements and fixes
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce that Oligopoly has been translated into French, Spanish and Italian. This patch also brings many improvements and a new beautiful looking weather system, have a look here: Street lamps and vehicles are now emitting light: Many thi
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I am happy to announce that Oligopoly has been translated into French, Spanish and Italian. This patch also brings many improvements and a new beautiful looking weather system, have a look here:
Street lamps and vehicles are now emitting light:
Many things have been overhauled, like transportation routes visualization for example:
Moreover, this patch brings approximately 20 improvements and bug fixes, see the following list for details:
Additions

added translations: French, Italian, Spanish
added weather system where it sometimes starts to rain
added weather system settings, available options are: mixed, always sunny, always rainy
charts fully implemented (chart datas are now saved and loaded as well)
added transportation costs (your transportation routes now cost money)
added transportation costs to the charts
added pavement to standard road
Improvements

changed road construction animation
prevent building windows from being partially out of screen when opening them
store window slightly overhauled
natural resources availability tooltip window redesigned
natural resources availability is now always 100% or 0% (and no values in between) to keep things simple
added emission to the tutorial arrow
improved transportation route visualization
natural resources availability visualization remade from scratch
standard road texture replaced
electronics shop resized
some tutorial texts improved
various adjustments for different graphics settings (higher performance for low settings and higher quality for high settings)
unity engine upgraded to the latest version
Bug fixes

fixed a bug where stores had to be clicked twice to open it's window
fixed a bug where the connected buildings visualization stayed active after constructing a building even if the mouse is not hovering it anymore
fixed text overflow in store windows
fixed a bug where after loading a save file the UI showed wrong balance for the first couple of days
fixed a bug where vehicles did accelerate/decelerate too quickly
fixed distorted road lines at intersections
Enjoy!
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20 Sep 2018Developer post
EA PERFORMANCE patch #14 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce another huge performance boost. The calculation time when a new road is built is about 10 times faster! Also, before, when playing for more than an hour, the FPS started to drop. This is now fixed as well. This fixes lead to a ver
17 Sep 2018Developer post
EA PERFORMANCE patch #13 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce a huge performance update. This patch brings a noticeable overall boost in performance and especially at later stages of the game, when cities become much larger. I also tweaked various other things. For example the camera is much
14 Sep 2018Developer post
BIG EA patch #12 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce the biggest update since EA launch. This patch brings a new category of buildings, a new map, a new campaign and new missions. As requested by the community, the new map contains much more landmass than the previous maps. So you h
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I am happy to announce the biggest update since EA launch. This patch brings a new category of buildings, a new map, a new campaign and new missions.
As requested by the community, the new map contains much more landmass than the previous maps. So you have plenty of space to build. Have a look here:
The patch also brings a new category of unique, expensive buildings, such as a company headquarter and a marketing agency. This buildings can only be built once and bring bonuses. Have a look here:
Additions

unique buildings

company headquarter (maintenance costs for all buildings -20%)
marketing agency (sales figures for all goods +20%)
new map named Thaler

new campaign

5 new missions

Future Technology
Company Headquarter
The Hotel Chain
Marketing
Sun-Dried
Improvements

slightly decreased cities grow speed
decreased maximum game speed for better performance
some missions rearranged
some sounds replaced
Bug fixes

fixed balance chart not showing negative values
Have a nice weekend!
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10 Sep 2018Developer post
EA patch #11 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. This patch brings a lot of new buildings and products to the game. Enjoy! Additions new buildings Machine Factory Specialist Store Textile Retail Textile Factory Furniture Store new pr
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. This patch brings a lot of new buildings and products to the game. Enjoy!
Additions

new buildings

Machine Factory
Specialist Store
Textile Retail
Textile Factory
Furniture Store
new products

Battery
Lithium
Motor
Tyres
Electric Vehicle
Mower
Grill
Silicon
Solar Panel
Cotton
Cloth
Punching Bag
Skateboard
Piano
Felt
Rug
Slippers
Rag Doll
Sweater
Bed
Office Chair
Improvements

Tutorial window is now transparent, so it doesn't hide anything important
Bug fixes

fixed bug where the last mission did end too early without any goals accomplished
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01 Sep 2018Developer post
EA patch #10 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, just a small change, but because I love it so much, I thought I upload a patch immediately. Ships, trains and trucks do now load and unload containers, see here: Have a nice weekend!
31 Aug 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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30 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #9 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. As requested by the community, this patch adds charts to the game. Please keep in mind that this feature is in an alpha state. It works, but the data will not be saved. Also, I have ov
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. As requested by the community, this patch adds charts to the game. Please keep in mind that this feature is in an alpha state. It works, but the data will not be saved.
Also, I have overhauled the visualization of connected buildings. You can now simply hover your mouse over one of your buildings to see to which other buildings it's connected. You can also hover your mouse over a store to see which city buildings are supplied by the store.
Additions

Charts (work still in progress)
hovering the mouse over a building shows connections
Improvements

added some missing german translations
slightly adjusted the layout of some user interface elements
removed the main theme music (this track now only playes at the end of a mission)
Bug fixes

fixed a rare bug where a save file didn't load correctly (thank you John for finding it)
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27 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #8 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, another day, another patch. Here we go: Improvements drastically reduced the amount of visualizations of negative money some other performance improvements Bug fixes fixed a bug where ships disappeared after loading a save file fixed a bug where trains
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
another day, another patch. Here we go:
Improvements

drastically reduced the amount of visualizations of negative money
some other performance improvements
Bug fixes

fixed a bug where ships disappeared after loading a save file
fixed a bug where trains may got stuck in rare cases
fixed a bug where train trailers did not follow correctly when the game runs at full speed
made some corrections to the german translations
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26 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #7 HOTFIX
Hello lovely Oligopolists, during the german translation, I messed up the tutorial. So I just released a hotfix to make the tutorial working again. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
26 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #7 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce that Oligopoly has been translated into German.
23 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #6 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. This patch changes a little bit the growth of the procedural cities. At the beginning, the cities look now much more like a small village. Also, there are a few new buildings like a ch
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. This patch changes a little bit the growth of the procedural cities. At the beginning, the cities look now much more like a small village. Also, there are a few new buildings like a church, police station, town hall, etc.
Additions

new city buildings
Bug Fixes

fixed an issue where the camera got stuck sometimes
fixed some typos
fixed the vehicle depot bases from sinking into the ground
Improvements

money formatting improved (e.g. now shows $42.21 billion instead of $422100 million)
changed the scale of some buildings that were too big
procedural cities now start as a small village
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22 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #5 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, a big thanks to the community who is actively giving feedbacks and finding bugs. This patch adds the ability to delete your save files from within the game. I also changed the game from exclusive fullscreen to windowed fullscreen mode. This hopefully pr
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
a big thanks to the community who is actively giving feedbacks and finding bugs. This patch adds the ability to delete your save files from within the game. I also changed the game from exclusive fullscreen to windowed fullscreen mode. This hopefully prevents the issue some users had when alt-tab out and in again into the game, whereby the game switched from fullscreen to window.
Additions

deleting save files from within the game
Bug Fixes

fixed UI scaling issues for low resolutions
fixed a bug where the continue button in the main menu loaded the wrong data
Improvements

selecting a vehicle still opens it's transportation route, but doesn't track the vehicle anymore. If you want make the camera following your vehicle, you can select it now with the right mouse button instead
slightly decreased saturation and contrast
slightly decreased the size of the product icon above buildings
switched from exclusive fullscreen to windowed fullscreen mode
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21 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #4 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. As requested by the community, this patch adds a sandbox mode. You can now play all maps with infinite money and without any restriction. Additions Sandbox mode
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. As requested by the community, this patch adds a sandbox mode. You can now play all maps with infinite money and without any restriction.
Additions

Sandbox mode
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20 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #3 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. Many people have complained about the camera control, so I have completely rewritten it. The camera now moves in a more traditional way like other similar games. Also, you can now move
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. Many people have complained about the camera control, so I have completely rewritten it. The camera now moves in a more traditional way like other similar games. Also, you can now move the mouse cursor to the border of the screen and move the camera that way. I hope everyone likes it the way it is now.
Improvements

camera control has been rewritten
some minor improvements to UI scaling
product info tooltip slightly overhauled
tutorial adapted to the new changes
changed the format of dollar and pound (e.g. $42 million, instead of 42 mio $)
Additions

mission end animation now uses a 80 degrees field of view
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18 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #2 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've created a new patch which will be released in the next hours. The most important change was a bug I fixed in sales calculation, you can read about it here if it interests you: Bug Fixes sales calculation now works as expected when selling small amo
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next hours. The most important change was a bug I fixed in sales calculation, you can read about it here if it interests you:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/888610/discussions/1/1734336452562382886/
Bug Fixes

sales calculation now works as expected when selling small amounts
fixed a bug in the tutorial where a tooltip didn't close
made some minor changes in the tutorial
fixed a small bug when opening the natural resources window, where a toggle stayed active without activating it's behavior
Original post
17 Aug 2018Developer post
EA patch #1 release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I've just released the first patch in early access. It adds two new minor features that have been requested by the community, see below: Additions the currency can now be changed to dollar, euro or pound in the settings user interface sound volume can n
Hello lovely Oligopolists,
I've just released the first patch in early access. It adds two new minor features that have been requested by the community, see below:
Additions

the currency can now be changed to dollar, euro or pound in the settings
user interface sound volume can now be adjusted as well
Original post
16 Aug 2018Developer post
Early Access Release
Hello lovely Oligopolists, I am happy to announce that Oligopoly is available for purchase in Early Access now.

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