The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy patient colony building that turns oxygen, heat, plumbing, and automation into engineering problems, this delivers rewarding systems to solve. Skip it if opaque mechanics and repeated failures feel like homework.
What it does best
A survival simulation deep enough to feel like engineering
Small mistakes become unforgettable cascading disasters
You build a functioning little world entirely your way
Hundreds of hours of learning, rebuilding, and going further
What might put you off
Overwhelming complexity and opaque mechanics
Duplicant AI and late-game friction
The setup
What you are walking into
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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