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Play Overview
Oxygen Not Included (2019) is a creative strategy game where you build an underground colony for survivors of a spaceship crash-landing. You need to manage everything, placement and planning for oxygen distribution, energy, plumbing and living arrangements. It offers a demanding and strategic experience where your every action has a consequence yet still allows for creativity and ingenuity to shine through.
When a spaceship malfunctions and crashes on a desolate alien planet, the crew-mates flee into the caves, where they find pockets of oxygen, plant life and water. Starting slowly, you build out basic infrastructure and living areas, then expand your settlement into nearby caves. You start with few resources and must use them to build out essential machines to ensure your survival, like oxygen regenerators and heaters, as well as contraptions that generate usable energy. Eventually, you either end up with a thriving colony, or die due to lack of necessary provisions.
Rather than directly controlling things, you issue commands to the crew-mates to operate machines, grow crops, fix malfunctions, and build tunnels. Your automation must balance your manpower to ensure you have enough food, water, heat and oxygen to survive. Each crew-mate has a unique set of attributes which makes the more suited to doing certain tasks. You can also see the flow of oxygen and heat around your base in real-time and must ensure your civilians don't suffocate, freeze or boil. Managing your infrastructure of gas, liquid and electricity pipes as you grow to ensure all the people's needs are fulfilled is a top priority and requires careful and strategic growth.
The result is a unique take on the city-building genre that demands careful calculation and caution, but also pushes you to come up with novel and inventive solutions to the many problems you face through experimentation and ambition.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Oxygen Not Included 17 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 17 months ago.
When a spaceship malfunctions and crashes on a desolate alien planet, the crew-mates flee into the caves, where they find pockets of oxygen, plant life and water. Starting slowly, you build out basic infrastructure and living areas, then expand your settlement into nearby caves. You start with few resources and must use them to build out essential machines to ensure your survival, like oxygen regenerators and heaters, as well as contraptions that generate usable energy. Eventually, you either end up with a thriving colony, or die due to lack of necessary provisions.
Rather than directly controlling things, you issue commands to the crew-mates to operate machines, grow crops, fix malfunctions, and build tunnels. Your automation must balance your manpower to ensure you have enough food, water, heat and oxygen to survive. Each crew-mate has a unique set of attributes which makes the more suited to doing certain tasks. You can also see the flow of oxygen and heat around your base in real-time and must ensure your civilians don't suffocate, freeze or boil. Managing your infrastructure of gas, liquid and electricity pipes as you grow to ensure all the people's needs are fulfilled is a top priority and requires careful and strategic growth.
The result is a unique take on the city-building genre that demands careful calculation and caution, but also pushes you to come up with novel and inventive solutions to the many problems you face through experimentation and ambition.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Oxygen Not Included 17 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 17 months ago.
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Play Style
This is a Strategy and World Building game with Creative, Sequencing and Simulation elements. This is a single-player game.
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 10 hours and 100 hours to complete. Because of the open-ended nature of the game, you can spend countless hours expanding and growing your base.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
11+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it’s important for parents and guardians to ensure they understand in-game purchases and have spending limits set-up. There is significant strategy in making sure you manage oxygen levels, other resources, and population as you play, and you should be able to cope with losing and hours of progress being lost.
Costs
Oxygen Not Included usually costs £18.99.
You can buy a pack of extra content called Spaced Out!, which allows you to make multiple bases on different planets and build an intergalactic civilisation.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Oxygen Not Included
There are the following additional costs associated with this game:
- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
You can buy a pack of extra content called Spaced Out!, which allows you to make multiple bases on different planets and build an intergalactic civilisation.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Game Details
Release Date: 30/07/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Strategy, World Building (Creative, Sequencing and Simulation)
Accessibility: 19 features
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
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