Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!
Grimstar is a real-time strategy game with a story-based single-player campaign. Your brother's sudden death has hit you hard, but the laws of the corporation for which he laid down his life dictate that you…
Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is a real time strategy (rts) developed by SvenRahn Games, released 16 June 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is
Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by SvenRahn Games and released in 2025. It was published by indie.io. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Year 3047, the elected government on Earth is long gone. Megacorporations are in control. "The Earth's resources have been used up and the energy crisis is upon us. But there is hope still - a discovery of a distant world, rich with a new kind of natural energy resource. They called the world Grimstar. Inhabited only by primitive insect-like creatures, it seemed like easy prey for aggressive colonization and mining. But they were deceived.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! launched on 16 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.
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