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Oxygen

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2023

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Quick resume

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!

Global score

73/100

Genres

Indie, Simulator, Strategy, Visual Novel

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Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Escapism

    New Cycle
  • Competition

    Hell Architect: Prologue
  • Cooperation

    Tavern Master

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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

Analysis

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

How to use the graph
Similar games map

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

  • Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
  • Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
  • 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.

Motivations

  • Autonomy
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Competence
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Competition

    Game with the same Competition vibe

    -5

    "No evidence of player-vs-player or competitive elements; focus is on personal colony management."

    Capsule for Hell Architect: Prologue Hell Architect: Prologue

    "No evidence of competitive modes or player comparison; focus is on individual colony management and survival."

  • Continuation
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Cooperation

    Game with the same Cooperation vibe

    -5

    "Single-player experience focused on individual management without multiplayer or cooperative elements."

    Capsule for Tavern Master Tavern Master

    "Single-player experience focused on independent management with no multiplayer or cooperative elements."

  • Creativity
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Domination

    Game with the same Domination vibe

    -5

    "No player domination or power over others; interactions are limited to managing own colony."

    Capsule for Aven Colony Aven Colony

    "No social dominance or power over others; interactions are limited to managing own colony."

  • Escapism

    Game with the same Escapism vibe

    4

    "Players use the game as an immersive post-apocalyptic survival experience to escape real life."

    Capsule for New Cycle New Cycle

    "Players use the game as a relaxing or immersive escape into a post-apocalyptic survival scenario."

  • Expectation
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Experimenting
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Exploration
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Expression
    1

    No nearest game available

  • Fantasy
    -2

    No nearest game available

  • Fellowship
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Growth
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Health
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Idle
    -3

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  • Intimacy
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Leadership
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Progression
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Relaxation
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Sensation
    1

    No nearest game available

  • Status
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Story
    0

    No nearest game available

  • Strategy
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Thrill
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Value
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Violence
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Survival
    5

    No nearest game available

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Last update: 23/05/2026