Oxygen similar games & best alternatives

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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 feels the closest overall

  • Oxygen: First Breath

  • Endzone - A World Apart

  • New Cycle

  • Settlement Survival

  • Timberborn

  • Solargene

More violent

Games that feels like Oxygen but with more combat and destruction

  • From Glory To Goo

  • After Long Night

  • Darfall

  • Citadelum

  • Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

  • Going Medieval

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Oxygen but with less leadership over others

  • InfraSpace

  • Farlanders

  • Plan B: Terraform

  • SteamWorld Build

  • Farlanders: Prologue

  • Nebuchadnezzar

More fantastical

Games that feels like Oxygen but with more imaginative fiction

  • Sintopia

  • The Crust

  • Aven Colony

  • Surviving Mars

  • Before We Leave

  • Pharaoh™: A New Era

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Oxygen: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Leadership, Thrill.

Last update: 21/08/2026