American West · Economic

Kerosene

From the publisher (translated):

3–5 players120 minages 14heavy difficulty

About the game

What is Kerosene

From the publisher (translated):

The first oil field in the world has just been discovered, the first oil companies have just been founded, one of the largest industries worldwide is about to unfold. John Davison Rockefeller is managing to achieve form the largest monopoly that no one has ever created.

Players will play the control of one of these pioneering companies, and must make all kinds of investments to keep the various production processes in the oil industry: extraction, refining, transportation or distribution. These should think how to get the most bargaining power possible as players buy each other directly, so absolutely real simulating the oil market at the time.

The game consists of 5 rounds which comprise more than 120 years of history since the rise of oil in 1870 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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