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Oxygen

2023

Should you play it?

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

What works

  • Engaging survival and resource management mechanics
  • Challenging but rewarding gameplay
  • Low system requirements and small file size
  • Active developer support and updates
  • Relaxing atmosphere with good soundtrack

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of narrative depth or endgame goals
  • Some ui and micromanagement frustrations
  • Mid/late-game pacing can feel slow or repetitive
  • Limited visual polish and voice acting quality
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Oxygen: First Breath

  • Endzone - A World Apart

  • Settlement Survival

  • Timberborn

  • New Cycle

  • The Crust

  • Citadelum

  • Nebuchadnezzar

  • After Long Night

  • 1849

  • Surviving Mars

  • Settlements Rising

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Hidden Gems

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If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Survival

    Oxygen: First Breath
  • Competence

    Oxygen: First Breath
  • Escapism

    New Cycle

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Oxygen: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Leadership, Thrill.

Last update: 27/07/2026