Why is Oxygen Not Included so good?
Oxygen Not Included avoids the pitfalls of the more passive builder-style games, but without using external threats. You don’t get raided, and bad things don’t randomly happen to you. It’s all cause and effect, and your decisions are the cause. Oxygen Not Included also includes aspect of automation, power, and other systems that should appeal to programmers. This is a game with a high learning curve and a lot of interacting systems, but figuring out those systems and managing them touches on something very close to programming larger projects.It’s the clever way Oxygen Not Included uses those simulations to constantly give you a challenge or a problem to tackle, keeping you engaged for the entirety of each playthrough, without using external threats to do it.