
Stations: Used for learning about new and exciting technogies – these must be powered to work and are where you duplicants do all their research.įurniture and Decor: Both these tabs include items to make your duplicants happier – from beds to sleep in, to ceiling lamps and works of art to brighten the place up. The medicine tab has machines to get your folks perky and new again. Medicine: Sometimes your brave but slightly foolhardy duplicants will get into trouble, either by fighting with the original residents of the spacerock you now call home, or trying to hold their breath for just one minute too long. Anything you dig drops its component parts to the ground ready for collection. You issue your orders by selecting from the seven buttons in the bottom right of the screen ĭig: Most likely your first action in game, digging is how you expand your base and access resources. Utilising the keyboard to move and simple mouse clicks and drags for all other commands. Oxygen Not Included is as simple and intuitive to control as you would hope from any good simulation game. Yes, that’s right, not only are you having to track your duplicant’s as they use up the limited oxygen around them and pump out copious quantities of co 2 but you also get to enjoy the simple pleasures of watching a teeny-tiny fart cloud drifting gracefully around your base.Īll duplicants have requirements of food, somewhere to do their business, and sleep – you can let them eat mush-bars (a delicious looking mix of dirt and water), poop on the ground, and sleep wherever the mood takes them but be ready to have some sad, sick and very grouchy space-dudes on your hands. Arriving regularly through the “Printing Pod” Each duplicant has their own set of skills, along with positive and negative buffs which can do everything from reducing a duplicant’s need for oxygen, to my personal favourite flatulence.

These are your workforce, the team you micromanage, assign jobs and try to keep alive.

Starting with nothing more than three brave duplicants (the adorable little folks you’ll try to keep alive) you must manage food, water and most importantly oxygen if you are to grow your base and keep your team happy and healthy. The latest creation of independent game studio Klei, Oxygen Not Included is a “space-colony simulation game” full of charm, fart humour, and the beautiful art style fans have come to expect.
