StrategyFit check
Is Oxygen worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who prefer managing settlements built around a central survival facility
- Strategy fans who want droughts, frosts, winds, and explosions to shape resource planning
- City-builder players interested in exploration, survivor recruitment, and research
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a conventional city builder focused mainly on urban growth rather than survival threats and oxygen production
- Players who want a relaxed settlement game without recurring droughts, frosts, deadly winds, and crack explosions
- Players looking for direct combat or military-focused strategy
Our take on Oxygen
Rather than treating the city as the main structure, the game makes one life-support facility the settlement's center of gravity. Oxygen production, energy choices, stockpiling, and expansion all follow from keeping that facility operational in a hostile environment.
What is Oxygen?
Build a settlement around an Oxygen Center that produces oxygen through electrolysis of underground water.
Manage housing, water, food, workplaces, materials, and energy while guiding survivors through a post-apocalyptic environment with little oxygen in the air. Research buildings and other developments, assign people to jobs, and raise confidence and education levels. Prepare for droughts, frosts, deadly winds, and crack explosions by storing supplies and planning energy production. Coal provides electricity, while the settlement gradually moves toward sustainable energy sources. Explore abandoned areas, locate survivors, collect useful materials, and revive dead trees as the settlement expands.
How Oxygen plays
- 01Oxygen Center Management
- The settlement depends on an Oxygen Center that uses underground water and electricity to generate oxygen.
- 02Resource Planning
- The settlement requires supplies of food, water, materials, and energy.
- 03Workplace Assignments
- People can be coordinated across different workplaces to produce required materials.
- 04Natural Disaster Preparation
- Stockpiles and energy planning address droughts, frosts, deadly winds, and crack explosions.
- 05Settlement Exploration
- Teams can search abandoned areas for useful food and materials and locate survivors around the globe.
- 06Research Development
- Research unlocks additional features and buildings for the growing settlement.
- 07Environmental Restoration
- Dead trees can be cared for and revived.
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Oxygen: platforms & release
Is Oxygen worth it?
It is worth it if: players who prefer managing settlements built around a central survival facility. Skip it if: players seeking a conventional city builder focused mainly on urban growth rather than survival threats and oxygen production.
Where can I download Oxygen?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Oxygen's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Oxygen on?
Windows only.
