The Bizzare Lore of Oxygen Not Included 

Hello curious person who scrolled down to see the pinned comment. Just a few things. For starters, some things I got wrong/need to clarify: Ok so Olivia didn't develop all of the critters. For instance Dr. Ada Bryon actually developed the Hatch, and unnamed employee B363 made the Bammoth. There were also a lot of other side stories going between specific dupes themselves. From pitching in to buy a birthday cake to leaking information to the press and getting your brains siphoned out, there's a decent bit that I've left out from this video. I did this because I felt that it didn't really contribute that much to the main story of this game, which was my focus. If you're interested in learning more, I recommend checking out some reddit posts, or just scrolling through the database in debug mode to unlock all the entries immediately. This video was a lot of work, and in complete honesty I bit off more than I could chew. I struggled a lot in production with how to visually represent information in a game where there is well, next to no visual representation. Regardless I'm proud of the final product. And yes, I did draw that image of Rick Sanchez holding an AK-47. Another video is in the works. This is a big one though, and it's gonna take me longer than usual especially since school is back in session now. If you're interested in that or any of my other projects, join the discord! Link in the description. Also don't look at the bottom left corner of the screen really hard at 5:19 Cheers.

I like how breaking entropy is a side project to the main goal, launching a rocket

Thank you so much for FINALLY making a lore video! Like you said, nobody's done so yet, even though the lore of this game is actually the PERFECT fodder for Game Theory.

10:12 love the fact that you started up among us, picked a name and skin and played enough rounds to be an imposter just for this 4 second bit

Damn, I’ve got 1700 hours in game and I still hadn’t realised the last part with the similar documents was because of the tear. Fantastic work man.

Only thing I would've added is a little more info on the people who became the dupes because there's some interesting bits in their backstories to add here and there. Like Amari who was leaking information to outside journalist Quinn, who was investigating Gravitas, but their secret interactions were caught when he brought them in to actually see the facility. To cover up the danger of the story leaking to the outside world, they (presumably) had a chunk of their brains cut out and were... let's say 'conditioned' to be more friendly toward the company. But other than that, great lore dive.

I have always unironically loved that ONI is this incredibly adorable and cute game with lots of warm and fuzzy vibes that nevertheless has a backstory/lore full of nightmare-inducing cosmic horror. Finally having a lore video of it is thus fabulous. (Also Klei apparently likes to reuse names at times, as I was amused when I first realized one of the main characters here is an Olivia, while Invisible Inc is also headed up by an Olivia.)

I’m a big Don’t Starve lore nut and whenever I played oxygen not included I always had a feeling that it had similar story telling methods (I mean they both have characters spawning from portals their practically the same game) but unfortunately I’m not very good at Oxygen Not Included so I’ve never been able too look into it that much.

No way! A ONI video from a non ONI RU-vidr? The world has gone nuts!

Funny to think Stinky was just a janitor that got his dna stolen then endless clones made of him that have brain chips that make them very capable.

I have been playing this game for a long time and overall a lot so I knew most of the lore just from playing the game, reading logs here and there, enviornmental storytelling and watching those animations from Klei over and over again (they are just sooo good) but missing a few things so this video is a REALLY good summary of everything and especially with those duplicated logs (to which a didn't pay attention) it makes reaching temporal tear a lot more I don't know... hopefull? Also with all of these time shenanigans stuff like worlds changing (traits and other things) kind of makes sense and I love certian details like George being printed at cycle -1000ish among other things.

The next DLC will be: Oxygen not included, SUPERTRAMP. Where we bring back the asteroids together and rebuilt earth!!

In case anyone was wondering, Ceres is a real planet in our Solar System between Mars and Jupiter, sitting inside the asteroid belt. Unlike in the game, however, its core is no longer molten and has solidified into rock with a later of frozen water under the surface.

Christ. Like, I managed to get the gist of Earth having blown up from some manmade disaster, and duplicants being stuck on what is assumed to be a chunk that flew off Earth. But damn it goes deep and feels like the plot of a horror story, with Earth sealed under a bubble of our own creation to avoid affecting the universe with our mess, and then the bubble breaks and Earth finishes collapsing and time anomalies become common.

I’ve been waiting a long time for a lore video, great job!

“There was a lot of fine print on the project… some might even say… oxygen not included” 😂

As a long time ONI player who's frustratedly tried to piece together a lot of this info himself... THANK YOU. You did a great job tying together a lot of things I knew with some key bits that I didn't have, and presenting it in an entertaining way. Also, +1 for having your own alternate histories in the video as a narrative device!

I’m surprised the lore for the game is not well documented yet. From the small amount of time I’ve played, I’ve only found scraps of info that lead to something much bigger going on than just trying to survive the asteroid that your dupes found themselves in.

Loved the video but I have to say that if the asteroid are from different timelines ( 15:50 ), we are actively making things worse because the further you go from the " main " colony the harder is for the duplicant to survive. Sorry for my bad english

if you play the game long enough and see what the dupes behave while building and digging you will understand why they civilization fall

0:25 It's usually MatPat... usually...

11:21 Yo! I never realized I was supposed to be the colony AI. Excellent lore vid.

THANK YOU!!!! I'm obsessed with Klei entertainment's lore on every game, and despite not playing ONI, I love watching the animated shorts and often wondered the lore of it, I love this video!!

ONI is one of my favorite games of all time! (Hence the avatar). I love how they do their storytelling -- it's there if you want to explore it and peel the onion. Even after all those hours playing it, I missed those subtle differences in the logs that you went over towards the end of the video

It's what I really love about the lore, and the game itself. It's an ADORABLE, brainy, difficult game. But the lore it's just dark as fuck and clashes so hard with the rest of the game's tone, yet make perfect sense. It honestly an impressive feat, pulling that off. As for your video, not only is it really, really well made, the script easy to follow and you've avoided the RU-vidr trap of being overly energetic or snarky for edginess sake, you have successfully managed to fill out all the blanks I had on the lore of ONI. From a really old, and old-school, gamer: thank you, sir!

holy this video is amazing. didn't even know you could make sure a masterpiece of a video with a game such as Oxygen Not Included

Finally a lore video about Oxygen not included! I was waiting for a video like this for years!

Finally. I've been wondering about the story of how these duplicants ended up in the underground of some asteroid ever since the game's beta.

Great video! Now I know some of the lore without having to read hundreds of pieces of correspondence :P

I've read bits here and there over the last 5 years of playing but in no way did I understand the full scope of this tragedy and how the expansions fit into it. Thanks for this complete Lore explanation!

Only 2k subscribers!!?? This is criminal!! The quality of this video is incredible! I liked the way you explain everything, make fun jokes and don't make up nonsense about lore(I hate it when theorists do that). Thanks for an amazing video about a game I love!

I mean, it's a game made by the same studio that created Don't Starve, a game series that has some of the most convoluted and interesting progressing storyline and mysteries I have *EVER* encountered, of course it was bound to have an interesting story too! But for some reason nobody was yet to thoroughly check it out, until you.

I did not expect this deep of lore from a seemingly simple game, great vid

I have about 150 hours into this game and I just learned like 95% of what you just said. Great video, thank you!

This video is phenomenal! A lot of comments have already commented on the production values and the research you did, but there's one specific thing I want to highlight: the use of clips from media to add some detail and further explain things. This video is legitimately a great example of how to use clips to not just keep attention, but make a video entertaining and simultaneously help the viewer understand what you're trying to convey. For example, using the Spider-Man 2 fusion reactor whenever the Time's Bow was mentioned helps to categorize the Time's Bow as a potentially revolutionary new source of energy, on par with (or better than) a Fusion reactor. Editing a clump of neutronium over the tritium helps establish the link between it and the Bow. Even the placement of that particular clip is well done: although tritium is a fuel source and neutronium a waste product, you put that clip after talking about all the ways neutronium is harmful, and the sprites from klei make it clear that neutronium's "thing" is that it is good at gumming up the works. You even showed a clip of the fusion reactor breaching containment when you talked about Time's Bow going critical. Pretty much whenever you show a clip, it's not just something to keep our attention, it's something *relevant*, something that would be helpful to illustrate the concept to someone who is not as familiar with Sci-Fi tropes. I could go on and on about all the examples, and how each one is simultaneously entertaining, relevant, helps to convey the point you're making/is illustrative of the general concept, and not from an obscure source no one's heard about, but I'd be here all day; which is hopefully the best compliment I can give this video. Best of all, you didn't repeat any clips, as far as I could tell!

It was fun finally seeing someone compile all of the little data notes left behind in ONI. Now we just have to live with the knowledge that our favourite dupes that we've got 3-5 copies of in one base are all eventually going to learn that they're basically the same person, just slightly different.

I have 1600 hours in this game. I have read bits and pieces of logs but never got into to. Thank you so much for putting this together! Very entertaining

1:48 Anti Entropy Thermo-Nullifier is not just a fancy name it is THE Fancy Name.

Good job. Maybe one day that hourglass will (have) arrive(d) at the college party.

FINALLY!!! SOMEONE has done a video on ONI lore! :))

You have a big career ahead of you in RU-vid, if you stick with it. You have all the hallmarks of the old school RU-vidrs that we all fell in love with. Passion, intelligence, creativity, humour, and great video presence. Keep it up bro. You’re just over 1,000 subs, and I’m happy to be another.

i wouldnt even know where to start finding out that there is lore out there somewhere.... this was fun

The fact my shitpost of a channel has more subs than you is a crime, give this man love

This is exactly what I had been looking for! Thank you for this 💜!

This was a great one! Been a fan for years, and I knew literally nothing about any of this!

Damn, I was writing a script for this. I think this is better than what I would have made. Great video.

I've been playing ONI since pretty early on in early access and I had no idea that the shattered planet was earth!

Interesting, now Mr.Meep you need to go back to making Mushbar or we all going to die from starvation.

I briefly dipped my toes into the game and only played around 3.300 hours - and i never knew the full extent of the lore. Thanks for clearing it up.

Holy shit, this was exceptionally well made!

The result is astounding good ass video dude! Enjoyed it all the way through

I am amazed that this is the first lore video, normally youtubers are all over this kind of hidden deep lore.

me when the first oxygen not included lore video ive ever seen pops up on my recommended... while im literally playing it 🤯🤯🤯

I spent 4 digit number hours on this game and I have no memory the lore existed at all. Maybe I'm also a dupe....

First time seeing your channel. Love the editing and creativity!

I got into ONI about 6 months ago and I have over 500 hours played in it. I've been WAITING for someone to do a video about this!

Never thought that Harry Potter would explain to me a lore of ONI

Great video loved the editing and how you incorporated Oni story into the video by making duplicates of your self. Lol

as an 3500hrs veteran on this game, i approved this video

Such high quality from a small channel. If you don't go big it'll be a crime

Writer of OnI finally gets the appreciation

0:46 Yeah I've searched multiple times, I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this video.

i didn't know that ONI has lore! great vid!

Beautiful capitalization on a much needed topic, I was just thinking of this the other night! Well done!

Man, this is a great video! Hope you get more popular and more people find out about this. All props to you 👍

I didn't expect it's gonna be that crazy! Especially the last part, I have always thought it's kind of worthless to read the colony logs or whatever the name is, because many red herrings. I don't always have enough time to read too, playing the game without dying already consume a lot of time. Turns out its not just bunch of red herrings.. Great video man!

Holy crap I’ve been playing this game for so long and never got far enough to know there was lore on it. Nice work!

Finally somebody is covering ONI lore! AND the editing is perfect too!

I love how you used a 3kliksphilip song at the end, and yes I did recognize it.

Oh, excellent! I appreciate what you've done here. I love ONI, but I am not great at it. 200 hours and never even breached the surface. I always end up reaching a point where everything is a mess, and it would take so long to fix/cleanup that I end up abandoning it and making a new colony later on.

I need to get back into this game I think the intention is that you play the game and learn the lore as you go through it. But that never really happens

Well done, sir! I read the journal here and there but this game gets so distracting bouncing from one disaster to another it’s easy to get behind.

I can't believe it, you kept cloning yourself in this video just like the duplicates of Oxygen Not Included itself *2:11* *3:15* *4:36* *5:50* Amazing video, by the way. You are an extremely underrated content creator I've never heard of, really hope you become much larger soon. Although I've never played Oxygen Not Included myself, this gave me an even greater appreciation for Klei as a studio with amazing lore making cappabilities. This almost beats Don't Starve in terms of crazy convoluted and extremely interesting lore that's for some reason _almost_ never explored on RU-vid and super underrated.

I always figured there was something deeper going on in the game. I just never made the effort to get to it because I didn't think I'd ever get that far It's interesting to see that all this time later, no one really tried documenting the lore, and it's really cool to see it laid out

After 500h into this game I finally have a clue what is going on

oh i love this, and the rain world background music is such a treat too!

0:09 oh man you in for a ride

Clean up on aisle my underwear! This is the most of amount of Michael's I have seen on one couch.

Hold up. I found this 20 ish minute video on youtube shorts. Looked at the comments expecting to see someone mention the 20 minute long short but i found timestamps instead. I BROKE THE SYSTEM.

11:50 "Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a higly trained professional"

The lore is very simple. A mining company could not do slavery, so they did dupes. It s not about saving humankind: it s about profit and power!! And Gravitas now has both....

Ain't no way you just added shaded citadel OST in between the video xD

FINALLY A LORE OVERVIEW YOU KING

Yessss I’ve spent the past month trying to piece everything together.

Awesome, I've been waiting for someone to make a deep dive like this :D Great work!!!

DRG soundtrack at the background is the best

YEESSS THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE ADRESSES THE ACTUAL LORE OF ONI!!! For real tho I always wondered about the lore and why there are absolutely NO VIDEOS about it. Now I can finally rest in peace as those lore entries start to make sense. I loved reading the different e-mails and encrypted notes but could never really connect the dots. Thank you again for finally adressing the ONI lore situation.

Basically, it's facing down temporal apocalypse with a hopeful smile... "Sure, we may die...but that doesn't mean we do in every timeline! Let's all try our hardest to be the one that succeeds!"

This was a great breakfast lunch and dinner. Bro cooked well!

Great story and video. Don't have energy to cross-check, but either way I had great time listening.

Thanks for actually spelling out the lore. Oni is so bad at telling the story. I played over 500 hours, and did get maybe 40% of this. There were multiple story messages I have never seen, although checking every one I revealed.

Playing for a few hours and reaching the surface? I've never reached the surface because something always goes terribly wrong.

Hey man, amazing video. Thanks so much for throwing together all the lore and making it easy to digest/fun to watch.

that part about different things testes flew through my head while playing lmao. Good shit

subbed for covering one of my favorite games

Amazing! You've earned my sub + like for making this video. Thousands of hours into the game and found out I knew so little still!

10:57 that scream was just beautiful, like an cherry on top of pie

. . . I had no idea OnI had lore. Not that I've gotten far in the game, I'm bad at it.

about time some one made a lore video for oxygen not included

okay thats a little deeper than i thought...