Oxygen Not Included

Today, after work, I got both of my exterior doorways painted in primer. But the news I really want to share is the much more important computer gaming.

I collected every Steam achievement for Oxygen Not Included yesterday. It took me 1,200 hours of gameplay across almost 2 years, but I did it. It's easily the hardest (but still entertaining) city building game I've ever played.

You won't learn real-world physics and chemistry from it, but what it does have is realistic enough to teach players valuable lessons. You have to care about heat management. Like global warming here on Earth, I lost my early colonies to heat death after some bad technological decisions much earlier in those games. You have to care about atmosphere composition. You have to care about renewable resources versus extractive ones.

I had such fun with it that I created a "diary" on Reddit of my adventures in the last colony I built. :)

Now, I'm free to return to other games. Timberborn is still in early access development, but Baldur's Gate 3 is due in just a few more days. Let's see where the mood takes me.