Comparison

Turmoil vs lava digger

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

lava digger

Embark on an underground adventure collecting ore and upgrading your drill chariot. Explore diverse environments, overcome obstacles, and assemble powerful harvesters to uncover endless treasures. Become the ultimate driver in this mining exploration game.

Highlights
  • Drill chariot driving
  • Ore collection
  • Harvester upgrades
  • Underground exploration
  • Obstacle challenges
  • Component assembly
Features
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Players will drive one of their own drill chariots, Adventure in ore town and twilight caves, collect ore in the game, strengthen your harvesters, and explore endless treasures 1, ore town underground there are countless treasures waiting for harvesters to find; 2. You can drive a harvester into the underground to search for treasure, and there will be various obstacles in different scenes; 3, collect harvesters' components, assemble stronger and more personalized harvesters, toward the best harvesters refueling, driver; 4, you can drive harvesters into the underground treasure hunt, continue to explore the underground world!

Screenshots

Turmoil4 screens
lava digger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: lava digger at none against Turmoil's 6. lava digger also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (60% vs 38%). Turmoil's advantage is ratings volume (20K vs 9). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Turmoil sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. lava digger asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Turmoil against 4.7 for lava digger. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Turmoil has 20K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of Turmoil's written reviews are positive against 60% of lava digger's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Turmoil versus lava digger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTurmoillava digger
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (20K ratings)4.7 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.6% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size602 MB157 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer雷霆游戏霖 丁

Customer experience

Turmoil

All ratings20,090 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews474 reviews
Positive37.6%
Neutral11.0%
Negative51.5%

lava digger

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and 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

lava digger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Turmoil

One-time6
  • 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
None

lava digger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Turmoil free?
Turmoil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is lava digger free?
lava digger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Turmoil or lava digger?
lava digger is rated higher. Turmoil averages 4.5 out of 5 from 20K ratings, while lava digger averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Turmoil or lava digger have ads?
Turmoil shows ads; lava digger does not.
Which is updated more often, Turmoil or lava digger?
Turmoil ships an update every 5 weeks, and lava digger every 5 weeks. Most recently, Turmoil was updated on October 27, 2026 and lava digger on October 24, 2026.

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