Oxygen Not Included
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4970% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.24/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 144,785
- Critics
- 85 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 104.7h
- To 100%
- 417.9h 4.0x the story
- Achievements
- 51
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 December 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9,334 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
71% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 63 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($19.99, scores 59) and Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49) both come in lower.
More about Oxygen Not Included
Critics scored it 85. Players sit 12 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 3,421 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
104.7 hours to finish it, 418 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
144,785 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Just like other Klei games, there's no tutorial and it will gladly let you die repeatedly.. That said, it's very rewarding once you figure it out. Very fun game. 10/10
2 more reviews
Endless fun and hunger, illness, suffocating, radioactivity, second degree burns, drowning, bites. I like it.
game is hard and the youtube tutorials are ass so u have to actually try to understand the game 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD 4600 (AMD or NVIDIA equivalent), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Oxygen Not Included scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/457140/oxygen-not-includedReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.