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Oxygen: First Breath

2022

Should you play it?

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!

What works

  • Engaging survival and resource management mechanics
  • Good tutorials and accessible gameplay
  • Atmospheric post-apocalyptic setting
  • Free demo with substantial content
  • Smooth ui and controls

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited story depth and endgame content
  • Some ui and tutorial roughness
  • Repetitive gameplay and tasks
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Graphics and narration could be improved

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Endzone - A World Apart

  • Oxygen

  • New Cycle

  • Settlement Survival

  • Nova Roma

  • Timberborn

More fantastical

Games that feels like Oxygen: First Breath but with more imaginative fiction

  • Sintopia

  • Darfall

  • The Crust

  • Aven Colony

  • Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

  • Kingdoms and Castles

More violent

Games that feels like Oxygen: First Breath but with more combat and destruction

  • From Glory To Goo

  • Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

  • AOD: Art Of Defense

  • After Long Night

  • Infection Free Zone

  • Citadelum

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Oxygen: First Breath but with less leadership over others

  • Farlanders: Prologue

  • Farlanders

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • InfraSpace

  • Plan B: Terraform

  • Nebuchadnezzar

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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

Last update: 03/08/2026