Managing these guys is going to be rough, but in the end, when you have a successful colony built on some random space rock, it will all be worth it. They will do what they are good at, and sometimes, if they’re not happy or they are too sick, they will refuse to the job altogether. Don’t worry, though, you’ll clone yourself more colonists as your settlement grows. Another twist on this system, though, is that you don’t assign certain colonists to certain jobs. Specialization is key in Oxygen Not Included, and there are tons of areas that a colonist can be an expert in. You’ll want to choose wisely, though, because having a Jack of all trades colonist is actually kind of useless. Your colonists will be good at certain tasks based on their stats, and these stats can be leveled up. From what I’ve seen, though, this one is going to get comparably rough. Oxygen Not Included is methodical and planned, whereas Don’t Starve requires instinct. Compared to Don’t Starve on a difficulty scale, though, Seidenz said that the two games take different skill sets. It is unapologetically a simulator game, and a hard one.
He said that the biggest influences for Oxygen Not Included were games like Prison Simulator, Sims, and Dwarf Fortress. Everything is adorable, which starkly contrasts the devastating situation that you and your colonists are in. It’s all procedurally generated, too, so anytime you fail, you’ll be put into a brand new world on your next go. Firstly, the art style is amazing, just as you would expect from a Klei game. Johann Seidenz, the design lead on Oxygen Not Included, ran me through a quick demo of what all of this looks like. And these are just two of the hundreds of problems you’ll face, but fixing them is all part of the fun. Even the CO2 they exhale has to be dealt with. You’ll have to craft housing, machinery, and make food for your colonists, but with food comes waste, with waste comes stench and toxic air, and with toxic air comes sick colonists. Solutions only beget more problems, and so the cycle is endless. It takes a lot to keep your dumb little astronaut clones alive, but once you figure out how to use the your problems to your advantage, it all begins to make sense.
Everything you do impacts you in some way and it is almost always bad. Klei Entertainment is creating a space colony simulation game called Oxygen Not Included and it is cripplingly hard.
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