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Oxygen

Turquoise Revival Games · GrabTheGames · 2023-04-07

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 06, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Oxygen is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and Mostly Positive (71% of 911 reviews).

6
playing now
71%
positive of 911 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-16 01:00 UTC (census sample)

A natural disaster hit us and brought humanity to the verge of extinction. Only a few survived because of "Large Igneous Provinces", these are volcanoes that don't explode but huge cracks open in the Earth's crust and lava just starts bubbling out, oozing across the landscape, releasing tons of toxic gases. The most dangerous thing about an igneous province is that it can keep up the oozing for centuries. With the wind effect, these gases spread all over the world and changed the atmospheric composition. One of these toxic magmatic gases reduced the oxygen level in the air. Sadly, there’s only(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 71 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (216 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 50,970 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 911 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.52 at GamesPlanet US (2025-04-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 33 of 58 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16816820232026Week of 2023-04-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2132026-09-16 11:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 15 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 10 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 17 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 9 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 9 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 9 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 9 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 21 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 13 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 11 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 8 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 13 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 8 players2026-10-16 01:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1268Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 126 · peak 298Jun 2023 — avg 45 · peak 130Aug 2023 — avg 22 · peak 61Oct 2023 — avg 33 · peak 93Dec 2023 — avg 29 · peak 70Feb 2024 — avg 17 · peak 45Apr 2024 — avg 44 · peak 312Jun 2024 — avg 27 · peak 62Aug 2024 — avg 20 · peak 50Oct 2024 — avg 16 · peak 43Dec 2024 — avg 21 · peak 51Feb 2025 — avg 13 · peak 34Apr 2025 — avg 19 · peak 47Jun 2025 — avg 14 · peak 30Aug 2025 — avg 14 · peak 31Oct 2025 — avg 15 · peak 40Dec 2025 — avg 13 · peak 30Feb 2026 — avg 10 · peak 24Apr 2026 — avg 12 · peak 26Jun 2026 — avg 12 · peak 29Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$2.152023-04-072026-07-302023-04-07 — best price $13.492023-07-23 — best price $14.992023-09-25 — best price $14.992023-10-17 — best price $11.922023-11-13 — best price $12.742023-11-28 — best price $14.992023-12-16 — best price $14.992024-01-19 — best price $7.492024-02-02 — best price $14.992024-02-23 — best price $14.992024-03-28 — best price $14.992024-05-02 — best price $10.642024-06-01 — best price $14.242024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-07-26 — best price $2.992024-09-04 — best price $6.002024-09-13 — best price $6.002024-09-22 — best price $14.992024-09-27 — best price $7.502024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-17 — best price $2.992025-04-04 — best price $2.152025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-15 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-29 — best price $7.502025-12-08 — best price $12.742026-01-06 — best price $7.242026-01-30 — best price $14.992026-03-02 — best price $2.992026-03-13 — best price $14.992026-04-02 — best price $12.892026-04-30 — best price $14.992026-05-20 — best price $14.842026-06-26 — best price $5.922026-07-13 — best price $12.892026-07-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
62.1%
earned "Water"
40.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

17 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)66817%26

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DEconomySandboxBuildingCraftingStrategySurvivalRealisticColony SimManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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