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2019PCSteam Deck verified97 % positive22.99 €

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Deep systems to master
  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting

The closest matches for Oxygen Not Included are RimWorld, Dyson Sphere Program and Kerbal Space Program. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Oxygen Not Included special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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RimWorld

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2018PCSteam Deck verified98 % positive31.99 €

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Deep systems to master
  • Economy and management

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

Dyson Sphere Program

Sandbox with your own goals

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Kerbal Space Program

Building and crafting

You assemble rockets and spacecraft from parts and send the endearing Kerbals to moons and planets under realistic orbital physics. Failure is part of the fun and often as entertaining as success.

Stardeus

Building and crafting

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

The Crust

Sandbox with your own goals

You build and automate a lunar colony that Earth relies on, mining regolith, running conveyor and drone factories, looking after colonists and trading with rival factions. A story campaign with multiple endings adds direction to the sandbox.

Space Haven

Building and crafting

A spaceship colony sim where you build ships tile by tile, manage air and power, and look after the needs and moods of a ragtag crew as you travel the galaxy in search of a new home.

Dwarf Fortress

Sandbox with your own goals

An immensely deep simulation where you build and manage a dwarven fortress or roam a procedurally generated, persistent world as an adventurer. Its interlocking systems produce chaotic, memorable stories, though the learning curve is notoriously steep.

Spacebase DF-9

Sandbox with your own goals

A space station colony-management sim in the vein of Dwarf Fortress: you manage crew, resources and disasters while emergent, often darkly funny stories unfold among your inhabitants.

Factorio

Building and crafting

Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.

Surviving Mars

Building and crafting

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

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