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. Outrate
    Feb 27, 2019
    7
    Great game, great bug support, but no character generation or design.
    You can't even choice appearance of crew so it's always looks pretty stupid even considering comic style.
  2. PrincessRose
    Feb 8, 2021
    5
    This game is very addictive to play however the game does not have any good tutorials or show you how to do the majority of things needed and I found it very difficult to figure out what Iam doing. I failed so many times as have no idea what Iam supposed to be doing.

    I had to look up guides to be able to have my colony survive. I made the mistake of using the microbe musher for food as    This game is very addictive to play however the game does not have any good tutorials or show you how to do the majority of things needed and I found it very difficult to figure out what Iam doing. I failed so many times as have no idea what Iam supposed to be doing.

    I had to look up guides to be able to have my colony survive.
    I made the mistake of using the microbe musher for food as I thought that's what you are supposed to use. You are actually meant to research and farm as soon as possible.

    I really dislike being shoved into a game blindly and feeling totally overhelmed and having no idea.

    So I rate the game 5/10 for lack of helpful guidance that I think the game needs. There should be a third game mode called Newb mode where it has a proper good tutorial. And those that don't want help or like figuring it out themselves can choose the other modes.

    I can't recommend as I find the game way too complex which causes the game not to be fun for me.    … Expand
  3. Agathra
    Oct 5, 2019
    5
    So I ended up not enjoying this game, but I'd still recommend it to... *most* people. Weird? Probably, but here's the thing: I would only recommend you do NOT play this game if, like me, you don't do well with technical jargon & math. Want an example: here's a line FROM A BEGINNER'S DISCUSSION on the game in a discussion thread:

    "1 Steam Turbine's cooling equals    So I ended up not enjoying this game, but I'd still recommend it to... *most* people. Weird? Probably, but here's the thing: I would only recommend you do NOT play this game if, like me, you don't do well with technical jargon & math. Want an example: here's a line FROM A BEGINNER'S DISCUSSION on the game in a discussion thread:

    "1 Steam Turbine's cooling equals (525-450)K*4.179kJ/kg/K*10kg/s=3134kw per second"

    I can't cope with that statement, and that's JUST for one item within one branch of a whole bunch of stuff you need to balance.

    Having said that? I did give it a couple hours of playtime to test it out. Because it is a seriously adorable game and I love it and wish I *could* play it. The animations are cute, the critters are cute, the characters are cute, even the dang materials are cute. The game as a whole is really well done and I'm sad that I tend to get confused when numbers and technical jargon start muddying the mix, because I really would like to play more! So yes, if the above sentence makes you ask "what's so confusing about that?" then you are probably gonna love this game, and you should buy it and play it now, and while you're at it, could you please enjoy it enough for the both of us?    … Expand
  4. OldManGamerOMG
    Jan 30, 2021
    7
    The game is fun, but does not run smoothly. My system has 64gb ram, 11gb GPU and running a new intel extreme processor, and the game still has issues the later into the game I get. Around cycle 350 to 500, the game becomes frustrating with taking up to a couple of minutes for the auto save function to perform its task, before the game will continue. It might appear that your game hasThe game is fun, but does not run smoothly. My system has 64gb ram, 11gb GPU and running a new intel extreme processor, and the game still has issues the later into the game I get. Around cycle 350 to 500, the game becomes frustrating with taking up to a couple of minutes for the auto save function to perform its task, before the game will continue. It might appear that your game has crashed, but this is just how the game performs. This does not seem to be as reliant as system design as just the bottleneck in game design.

    The speed up process also become a bad choice with any more than 16 duplicates, as the game takes the same amount of time to go through its checklist to see who performs what task, regardless of speed selected to play. This means that playing accelerated gameplay will result in an increase duplicate idle time ratio comparatively. When racing the clock on anything, always run in the slowest/normal speed, else you can end up wasting time and failing to accomplish tasks by their deadlines.

    Be careful altering the priority settings, as this can essentially stun lock duplicates, making them do jitters instead of accomplishing anything. For some reason, if two tasks are equal in importance for a duplicate, they will sometimes (and often in later cycles) cycle between the two tasks, doing nothing but a two step shuffle between the first step towards each task, but no further. I found this especially problematic with tidy tasks between gathering ice and anything else. I had to set the resource box for the ice to a lower rating, so it would end up getting those last, which solved most of the two step shuffle issues.

    The game performs excellent for the first 200 or so cycles, and is very fun, but after that, it because a race to patience versus success. I find that I reset the game often, starting over, just because I am tired of the auto save feature making the game play tedious. I consider this a major game issue, and would rate the game far more favorably if they can fix this. As is, this is a fun game that I recommend, but expect your patience to be tested if you venture through many cycles, instead of rush to the finish line.    … Expand

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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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