Oxygen Not Included cover art

Oxygen Not Included

2019 · Klei Entertainment · ~80h to finish

Thermodynamics as a colony sim. The base that runs beautifully for forty cycles fails on the sixtieth because the heat had nowhere to go.

simstrategysurvivalPCMetacritic 85
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty7.4BRUTAL

Long walls, many attempts. Bring patience.

Price on Steam

$24.99

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
8.8
Learning Curve
8.5
Obscurity
8.4
Grind
5.7
Puzzle
5.5
Punishment
5.2
Execution
0.7
Reaction
0.4
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Punishment drops 1.3 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.2 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

VISION

  • Scalable UI & text [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game.

Where to go from here

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