How Cool that Oxygen Not Included! Games

Fauzi Muhammad Sulaeman
Ilkomerz IPB
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6 min readSep 19, 2017

Oxygen Not Included! is one of my favorite simulator games. Developed by Klei Entertainment, Released on 18 May 2017 and only playable in PC Platform. Generally it is one of survival games that leads us to build the space-colony of Duplicants (we call it ‘Dupes’ for easier to say) to survive from Monster Disturb, Food Shortage, Electricity shortage, Stressed out, Germs Attack, Different Weather in Different Place, Etc. All we need to do is leads them to build their hometown and grows their population as much as they can to survive at space. If you are one of the people who loves survival games, i recommend you to play this games because it will make your thinking skill upgraded.

So right now we will talking about why you need to play this game:

  1. Cute Characters Models

This game use cute characters model to make the player enjoy the game, the face that they makes expressed their own personality. You will never get bored if you play this cute characters model games.

2. All you can do

You can choose what component that you need on your dupes. for example, if you need dupes that can deliver item faster you must take more Athletics Attributes, if you need dupes that can build construction faster you must take more Construction Attributes, if you need dupes that can bring many item in one run you must take more Strength Attributes, Etc. There are many traits that available in this game, Good and Bad Traits. You need to be careful in choosing dupes traits. And there are some additional option that your dupes have. You can name your own colony as you wish. In this phase, you must combining your first tree dupes for surviving this game and of course, you need to be creative.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-La2N7wgsh0

All you need to do is dig all day long, Because you need to explore the entire place to find some resource such as Raw Mineral, Raw Metal, Organic Plant, Consumable Ore, Cultivable Soil, Filtration Medium, Fertilizer, Water, Etc. Also you need to do is construct. Because you need to make the dupes comfortable and makes the dupes stress level stay 0%(if dupes stress level reach high number, they can destroy all item).

3. Unique Temperature

In this game you can make a different temperature. the Dupes only likes temperate heat level, they don’t like scorching and cold level. But they can weave clothes for let them survive at any temperature.

4. Unique Plumbing System

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYflwuPtNA

In this game, your dupes need water for plants, toilets, etc. And all you need to do is make plumbing system. Blue water (fresh water), green water is (contaminated water). Don’t let them fused, because your dupes will stress if they consume contaminated water, all you need to do is make place for contaminated water or transform contaminated water into fresh water by Water Purifier.

5. Unique Electricity System

In this game, your dupes need electricity to survive because almost all of item on this games need electricity and you must good at power managements. There is item named ‘Manual Generator’, all you need to do was just makes your dupes running ‘like hamster’ and fill the energy of electricity on battery. From that battery, you can spread the energy to all wire who already being set on all item in this games.

6. Dupes need oxygen, not the other gas!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnl-QVyDmaA&t=497s

In this games, all your Dupes needs to breath is just Oxygen, not the other! You can make your dupes die if you let them too much inhale another gas such as chlorine, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and natural gas.

7. Many Monster That Hides

In this game, there is a creatures that have their own uniqueness. For example, puff (look like a fish) they can modify contaminated oxygen into Breathable oxygen, but he will produce some slime who can make contaminated oxygen again if its not being used for fertilizer.

8. Infinity World that you can Explore

There is more place that you can explore in this games, you will find something unique far far from the center of the colony. All you need to do is dig and construct.

9. Always update new feature every month

The game will be updated new event every month. First event was Thermal Updates, it means the games was add ‘Ice Place’ features, the dupes will feeling cold if they were not using clothes that can make them warm. Second features was Agricultural Updates, it means the games add more plant that used for cooking, more item that can be cooked and in this features all dupes have sense of food taste. Third event was outbreak updates, it means the games was add ‘germs’ features, the germs will spread from toilet, slime, etc. The dupes will be easily get sick when they got infected germs. (why outbreak? Because the promotion video said that the researchers found new creatures, it is germs. And he accidentally drop the tubes into the floor and all the dupes walking into it, and the germs spread out).

I think thats all i can share, hope you like it and enjoy the game. If you interested on playing this game, you can buy it at steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/). It wont cost you dearly, its just takes $15.

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