Cosmodread

Cosmodread

Fair · Roguelike · 2021

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The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1h
Value
$14.99/hr
Reviews
91% of 422 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$14.99/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 332 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 (or equivalent), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 30 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alien: Isolation ($39.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Teleglitch: Die More Edition ($3.24, scores 64).

More about Cosmodread

Of the 332 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 158 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Cosmodread, developed and published by White Door Games, is a virtual reality survival horror experience that fuses roguelike unpredictability with suffocating sci-fi tension. Set aboard a drifting, decaying spaceship lost in deep space, the game casts you as a lone survivor attempting to escape a vessel overrun by grotesque creatures and systemic failure. Rather than relying on scripted scares or cinematic...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Easily one of the best, if not THE best VR - no - horror games in general on the market. It blends a perfect mix of immersion, control, mechanics, strategy and fear. The game captures the essence of the classic horror trope "the only way is through, and it's what you don't wanna do". Meta-game upgrades and modifiers change how you can play so you can fit it to your desired play style. The horror elements are not as...
CrazyContraptionRecommendedafter 4.5hAug 2025Read on Steam
Works on Reverb G2. Rogue-lite survival horror inspired by Dead Space. Less scary but more replayable than Dreadhalls. Superb sound and lighting create thick horror atmosphere that is spoiled a bit by goofy enemy models
RagingPoetRecommendedafter 1.2hNov 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Cosmodread scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1256060/cosmodread
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWhite Door Games
PublisherWhite Door Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate