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  • Summary: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Manage your colonists and help them dig, build and maintain a subterranean asteroid base.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
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  1. Aug 9, 2019
    90
    Quotation forthcoming.
  2. 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.
  3. GameStar
    Jan 10, 2020
    87
    Oxygen Not Included is a challening, complex survival building game for creative tinkerers and fans of automatisation.
  4. 80
    Funny, clever, and extremely complex mix of management simulator and survival game that manages to make abject failure almost as entertaining as success.
  5. Jul 30, 2024
    80
    A time sink that will keep you hooked right up until your last Duplicant.
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  1. Most of all, the simulated personalities, habits and appearances of the dupes themselves feel like complete wasted effort.
  2. Jun 2, 2019
    A bonkers survival sim where watching things fall apart is half the fun.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 34
  2. Negative: 6 out of 34
  1. Feb 23, 2019
    10
    I've put more hours into this game than I ever thought I would. I started playing in early access and they just keep patching in new featuresI've put more hours into this game than I ever thought I would. I started playing in early access and they just keep patching in new features and smoothing out the old ones (in a good way). It's the kind of game that sits in my library and waits for me to launch it again. I then binge it for a week or two and then go back to other games until I decide to play this one again. I suspect it will remain installed on my machine long after other "AAA titles" have been played and discarded. There are just some games that have that "one more turn" appeal, and this one falls firmly into that category. Each cycle (day) more things get accomplished and more progress is made, and you look forward to the next one each time. There are still some confusing concepts and the difficulty has varied dramatically over the course of the development. I am still trying to decide if it's hit a sweet spot or if there are still pits/peaks on that front.

    The short answer is that this is a fun strategy game that looks small at first but has an amazing amount of depth and complexity once you get into it.
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  2. Sep 15, 2022
    10
    İt s the best colony game and it s really hard like heat rad food water i mean every think
  3. Apr 24, 2018
    10
    When it was first announced, it was not good. But they did something and made this a masterpiece. Every step should be thought, if you doWhen it was first announced, it was not good. But they did something and made this a masterpiece. Every step should be thought, if you do something wrong, then you're f#*cked. Expand
  4. Mar 9, 2019
    9
    Great alpha release so far. The game progression takes a bit to get used to. Effectively going from one emergency to another. Some come upGreat alpha release so far. The game progression takes a bit to get used to. Effectively going from one emergency to another. Some come up slowly, others more quickly.

    I thought I had power all sorted out when I found a gas vent. Found out later that the gas wasn’t producing as quickly as I had hoped leaving me with a huge power emergency mid game.

    Can’t wait to see the finished product!
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  5. Jun 7, 2022
    8
    Крутой космический симулятор выживания с видом сверху и красивой графикой.
  6. 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 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.
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  7. 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 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.
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