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Oxygen

Turquoise Revival Games · GrabTheGames · 2023-04-07

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

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!

8
playing now
72%
positive of 899 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 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
  • · 8 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 27% of 18,324 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–40k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 899 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 35 of 63 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

1932026-08-11 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 14 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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