Games like Oxygen Not Included
If you like Oxygen Not Included (colony, simulation and survival), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
RimWorld
- In common: management and long sessions
- Difference: more story
When you have a long afternoon and fancy managing: each session writes a new chapter for your colony.
Against the Storm
- In common: management and building
When you want to build and manage without committing to a weeks-long game: each settlement is one session.
shapez
- In common: building and thinking
- Difference: more relaxed
When you want to optimise without pressure: you can leave it and pick it up whenever you like without losing anything.
Frostpunk
- In common: management and thinking
- Difference: more story
When you want an intense management game with tough decisions, in one afternoon.
Factorio
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: more co-op
When you have many hours ahead and a sharp mind: "five more minutes" turns into three hours.
Timberborn
- In common: building and long sessions
- Difference: more relaxed
When you want to build calmly and watch your dams transform the landscape.
Cities: Skylines
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: easier
When you want to build something big at a relaxed pace. Watching your city grow session after session keeps you hooked for weeks.
Two Point Hospital
- In common: management and progression
- Difference: easier
When you want to manage something without real stress and with a laugh: each hospital plays in comfortable sessions.
Stacklands
- In common: management and thinking
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you want a light strategy game where you keep discovering new combinations.
Kerbal Space Program
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less management
When you have hours, want to experiment and have the patience to fail many times with good humour.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Oxygen Not Included
You manage a colony of duplicants inside an asteroid. Oxygen, temperature, gas pressure, plumbing and electricity are simulated in detail: every solution creates a new problem. One of the deepest management games there is.
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