Oxygen Not Included

Gas and liquid simulation turned colony management into thermodynamic engineering.

Released 2019 Developer Klei Entertainment Platform PC Genre Colony Sim Era Live service & the long tail Website kleientertainment.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Oxygen Not Included inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Survival Needs Clock ~~1980~~Seeded Procedural Universe ~~1984~~Free-Form Base Building ~~2009~~Paid Early Access Development ~~2009~~

Descends from

Dwarf Fortress ~~2006~~

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