Unfinished: Oxygen Not Included (01/19/2018)

Cool!

Is this the same company that made rimworld? I really enjoyed that game. The art style and game mechanics look very similar.

@wowzerzz: No, Rimworld is by someone else, but these devs made another popular survival game - Don't Starve, as well as platformers like Shank and Mark of the Ninja.

This game sucked a lot of my time in the past two weeks. But man, I really enjoy the development of ONI.

Don't starve was such a obtuse weird thing in comparison to this. I tried them in reverse order and still feel oxygen is about 5000 percent more interesting and 5000 percent less confusing. This game is very fun.

The wires are breaking because you have a higher power total than what the small wires can handle. In other words, you are putting some much electricity into your system that it is going up in flames.

The solutions is to separate into smaller power networks.

@wowzerzz: this is basically just the colony upkeep cute version of rim world minus the overworld.

Wonder if they will try slay the spire sometime too another good early access game.

We should get a new quick look at dwarf fortress!

@wowzerzz: Rimworld was made by a single person, this is the same company that made Don't Starve.

Yes Dan, you drink poop water. More so, there's poop water inside of you, it's in your blood and in your cells.

This looks awesome. I wish I had more spare time to get into games like this.

This looks like a pretty good dwarf fortress like(survival management sim?). I think its kinda cool that it focuses on creating networks and systems instead of characters like in DF and I think Rimworld. Usually I think thats the most annoying part of these games but the UI in this looks pretty good and looks easier to manage.

Ya know what? New year, new open mind. I'm gonna give this a whirl even though I normally don't play systems-heavy games like this.

Oh no. This game looks really good. Goddammit I'm going to lose a lot of hours to this.

The thing that makes this game amazing is all the background physics simulation etc they got going. It looks like a cutesy base-builder at first, but you can do a lot of cool "science stuff" in this game.

Wow this looks fascinating with the HVAC systems and water systems and all that. Definitely going to the wishlist. I can see other people finding it to be a chore to have to manage and juggle all that but I love that stuff.

This reminds me a lot of an old game called the Diggles. Its very similar in game mechanics. Oxygen Not Included looks like a good successor.

This game is so good! Also, Klei's weekly stream on Twitch is really excellent. They go over new features, sometimes they have their sound engineer on (he's great), or they do draw-alongs with their artists. It is worth checking out.

I wish this was finished so I could play it already!

I gave this a real quick glance on Steam after hearing Pat Rothfuss mention it somewhere, but I didn't quite get what it was for some reason. Seconds into this I (Like many others) went, "Oh, it's Rimworld with a different look." I like Rimworld a lot, so I'm going to keep an eye on this and see hoe development progresses, but what was shown here looks really cool.

@danryckert There's a finite amount of water on the planet. Every drop you drink was once coming out of someone's butt or urinated out of a t-rex.

The same applies to the atoms in the air we breathe.

Do an Unfinished for FROSTPUNK.

I've been hopelessly addicted to this game for months

This looks right up my alley, going to check this one out.

Can't wait for people to inform Dan on the Beastcast about where his drinking water has been.

I know this has been tried before when trying to convince him that figs were not pure wasps or whatever.

This seems like Gnomoria but not as punishingly impenetrable.

If you like this game, but maybe in a different setting, Craft the World is phenominal and basically the same premise, but with dwarves and digging. Craft the world is such a wonderful game and very addicting!

My favorite Early Access game right now. Fantastic game.

Havent played this game in a while but it was really addictive! One of the better games I played last year.

Looks great! Ya'll should play DF if you like this game!

I haven't played this in about 6 months, but I really enjoyed the time I put in. I think it was really lacking an end game/long term goal, but it has a ton of potential.

These are the kind of games that could be assigned for a class. I'm talking for an elective, probably for high school. It's intelligent and teaches basics on different kinds of systems, be it potable water, recycled and waste, electrical. chemical and so on. As long as science and such is correctly represented at least in spirit.

Btw, I do not know if reclaimed water is allowed back into potable supply here in the U.S. It's usually, unless code has changed in some principalities, used for grey water use (urinal and toilet, perhaps laundry) and irrigation. For progress I'm willing to be wrong.

You're right, I should play Dwarf Fortress again. It's been a while.

digging everything about this game so far, will probably get this when it gets out of early access

Agreed, I'm really loving it. I put in a lot of hours in to it already.

seems real similar to Craft The World

To be fair to Dan, I don't know of any water treatment plant in the country that converts raw sewage into drinking water, and then puts it directly back into circulation for human consumption. Even the treatment plants that are advanced enough to purify it all the way back to consumable just pump it back into the environment because the idea of drinking something that was so recently filthy is off-putting to people.

As we move into the future and fresh water continues to become scarce, this will obviously change. But poop water is many, many steps removed from being consumed, which I think is what Dan was asking.

Ah, a Rimlike.

@noblenerf: You mean Dwarf Fortress-lite?

Since Dan has forced his colleagues to play Mario Party, Sunshine and Soul Caliber, he could have no complaints if he was forced to play Dwarf Fortress for a Giant Bomb series. Dan trying to wrap his brain around the DF interface would make great content.

Dan flying to Duna in Kerbal would also be acceptable.

@paulunga: Fortlike?

Great video! Just in case anyone reads this far down the comments, here is some knowledge I've gleaned from just over 100 hours in this game. By no means an expert, but these are things I wish I knew! I'm going it all in a spoiler block so I don't have to post a giant wall of text!

If I remember anything else that sounds useful I might chime in again. Hope this helps anyone!

This honestly looks impenetrable. How many hours does it take to feel like you have a handle on the thousand different systems and data points?

If you're the kind of person that washes hands before going to the bathroom & afterwards, maybe don't go starting an underground civilization.

Thank you Vinny for purifying the water before you drop it in a pool of bad water ;)

We’ve lost Dan half way through the QL

I was holding off on this game after noticing it a few weeks ago. Vinny persuaded me. My crew may have some regrets about this.