Oxygen Not Included

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User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 148 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 116 out of 148
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 148
  3. Negative: 11 out of 148

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  1. aknight4678
    Aug 30, 2021
    2
    I'm sorry but with all the hours of put in to this game I just found it boring as hell, there's so much repetition in this game , it's just extremely dull and nothing of interest, just like this review, booorrrrrriiiiinnnggggg.
  2. Voyou
    May 23, 2021
    2
    An hour in the game and I haven't managed to assign any task to anyone. Wherever I click I get a popup with a ton of text to read, but no action button anywhere. Apparently, keyboard shortcuts are mandatory. If that's the case, if the coders or vi or emacs didn't die virgins and had children who wrote software with the same level of interface retardation, then I'll rate them a zero asAn hour in the game and I haven't managed to assign any task to anyone. Wherever I click I get a popup with a ton of text to read, but no action button anywhere. Apparently, keyboard shortcuts are mandatory. If that's the case, if the coders or vi or emacs didn't die virgins and had children who wrote software with the same level of interface retardation, then I'll rate them a zero as well. If not, if I'm missing something, then it's only the tutorial that I rate at zero. In any case, I don't have time to waste on incompetence.
    Mind you, the game is text-super-heavy, which was a clue, and there is a UI scaling, which should be a positive, however when scaled up to a comfortable read, the popups don't fit fully on-screen any more; they are useless. Game makers not grasping that they don't need big icons, big permanent elements, they only need big fonts, for the texts that appear temporarily, one by one.
    Also, not surprisingly, the game does not provide the entertaining ability to save progress during missions. Which means its entertainment value is a big fat ZERO. In fact, this is the case for any game that this company made, so their incompetence is not a case of amateurism but clearly of low intelligence.    … Expand
  3. Gme
    Sep 24, 2021
    0
    This used to be an 8/10 review but now it's owned by the CCP. Stay away at all costs.
  4. bentoboxkiller
    Dec 18, 2020
    0
    Game is very good, if you enjoy micro management.
    If you are not into calculating where to go from this pause to the next, might not be the game for you.
    Game learning curve is basically a up arrow.
  5. metacriticuser8
    Feb 26, 2022
    1
    This game suffers from typical indie company problems. It is very bad optimized and suffers performance problems, which makes the game unplayable in the lategame state, which is necessary to have to enjoy the game. Therefore just 1 point. Maybe write better code, this is embarassing
  6. Quazder
    Aug 22, 2023
    0
    Too hard to understand and iam not willing to invest 10+ hours in to just learn the game to be actually able to play it at somehow decent level

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. GameGrin
    Jul 30, 2024
    80
    A time sink that will keep you hooked right up until your last Duplicant.
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  2. GameStar
    Jan 10, 2020
    87
    Oxygen Not Included is a challening, complex survival building game for creative tinkerers and fans of automatisation.
  3. The Indie Game Website
    Aug 16, 2019
    90
    While there are niggles to the experience, from relatively frequent frame rate drops at the start of each cycle and the AI occasionally getting confused to the game outright crashing (which is naturally quite frustrating), these issues seem like the aftermath of Early Access. With the game having a decent swell of community support and the developers just as keen to keep improving, Oxygen Not Included appears to be going onwards and upwards – or whatever direction you fancy, really.
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