Oasis (video game)
2005 strategy/puzzle video game
Oasis is a turn-based strategy video game developed by American studio Mind Control Software and published for Microsoft Windows by PlayFirst in April 2005. Konami released a mobile phone port in 2006. Mind Control reacquired rights to the game from PlayFirst in 2010 and released an iPad version called Defense of the Oasis that same year. An iPad version was published on Steam in August 2020. Oasis is a casual game set in ancient Egypt that combines Civilization-style strategy and puzzle gameplay. Oasis has been described as "Civilization meets Minesweeper".
Gameplay
Each level of Oasis consists of a single screen with a 10x10 grid of randomly generated terrain. Initially the map is covered with fog of war, but the player may remove the fog from tiles by clicking on them. Each click reveals a single tile and takes a turn; 85 turns are available for each level. The eponymous oasis covers several squares of each level and lying in a random oasis tile is the obelisk which contains the level's glyph of power.
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