Swap Gears vs Turmoil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swap Gears
Solve intricate mechanical puzzles by rearranging gears to complete circuits of motion. Fix contraptions by placing each piece in its correct spot. Enjoy the background music as you build your mechanical masterpieces.
- Gear rearrangement puzzles
- Complete motion circuits
- Fix contraptions
- Multiple machine types
- Background music
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Rearrange the gears to create mechanical masterpieces! Swap gears features many different types of machines. Your job is to complete the circuit of motion. Move every piece into the correct spot to fix the contraption! Last but not least,enjoy the background music.
Turmoil
Engage in a 19th-century oil rush simulation. Acquire land, build pipe networks, and manage resources to outwit rivals and become a successful oil entrepreneur. Upgrade technology, invest in town shares, and rise to become the mayor.
- Real-time strategy oil field management
- Pipe network construction
- Technology upgrades and new tools
- Town share investment and mayor competition
- Randomly seeded world for replayability
- DLC with new campaigns and challenges
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Turmoil is a casual business simulation game inspired by the oil rush in 19th-century North America. It is developed by Dutch game studio Gamious and published by LTGames. In Turmoil, you are up against time and rivals on your path to becoming a succesful oil entrepreneur. Start raking in the oil money and watch the town grow along with you! [Game Features] *Real-Time Strategy, Oil Field Management Acquire land at the town auction, and uncover oil with dowsers, moles, or scans. Create an efficient pipe network to get the oil above ground, and buy wagons and silos to transport and store it. Wait for the right price to sell, or use natural gas to raise the oil price yourself! *Upgrade Technology, Expand Your Connections There are dozens of upgrades and new tools that will improve your oil drilling operation. You will need them to drill through rocks, deal with natural gas pockets, and prevent oil spillage! Don't forget to visit the saloon, the people there may have some very juicy business proposals for you! *Buy Stocks, Become a Mayor Start from the bottom and rise to the top! Turmoil is not all about money, you also need town shares. Use your hard-earned cash to outbid your rivals at the stock auction and become the new mayor to win the game! *Randomly Seeded World, Challenge Your Limits Different settings and randomly generated levels provide an almost unlimited variety of oil-drilling challenges. Challenge other players to find out who's the real deal! *The Heat Is On, Get Ready for the New DLC! An entirely new campaign offers you the same oil-drilling fun, but with challenging twists and interesting bonuses. The addition of magma in the underground creates danger but also offers opportunies. You can also find underground artefacts and sell them in the village, but collecting them all might be more profitable! Play card games in the saloon to earn even more money!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Turmoil at 4.5 against Swap Gears's 3.3. Turmoil also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (20K vs 7). Swap Gears's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Turmoil sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Swap Gears asks for nothing beyond the download.
Turmoil holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Turmoil has 20K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Swap Gears ships an update every 21 months, Turmoil every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swap Gears | Turmoil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (20K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 37.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 20K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 602 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 亚州 王 | Xiamen Leiting Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Swap Gears
Turmoil
Bugs and requests
Swap Gears
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Turmoil
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tutorial level gets stuck
- Progress not saving properly
- Language settings not working
- Leaderboard issues with cheaters
Requested features
5 requests- Offline play option
- More content and maps
- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to restore purchases
- More difficulty levels
In-app purchases
Swap Gears
No in-app purchases
Turmoil
- The Heat Is On DLC(Discount)$0.99
- Deeper Underground(Discount)$0.99
- Classic Campaign(Discount)$1.99
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- The Heat Is On DLC$1.99
- Deeper Underground$1.99
- Classic Campaign$2.99









