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Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Science fiction
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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GideonsGamingJoseph PughJan 2025Oxygen Not Included has some of the most unique and clever gameplay designs I have ever seen. There are very few games where you could put a degree in various sciences to work, but fewer still, are the number of games that could use them and remain playable and fun for those without them. I’m pretty sure that Oxygen Not Included manages to be both, and that’s incredibly impressive.
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Metro GameCentralAug 20198/10Funny, clever, and extremely complex mix of management simulator and survival game that manages to make abject failure almost as entertaining as success.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunNate CrowleyJul 2019Brilliant though it is, [Oxygen Not Included] is an ordeal. It’s satisfying, but it’s stressful. I’d even go so far as to say – and here I risk invoking the scorn of the Legion of Geniuses, who wait in the darkness beyond the comment section – it’s a little bit too hard.
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IGDB rating 7.7/10 from 143 ratings.
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