Cobalt Core
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 35%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($12.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, yeah we got those, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 26 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Die in the Dungeon ($14.99, scores 75) and Warriors of the Nile 2 ($7.49, scores 67).
Of the 464 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 268 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
80% start to 16% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
41 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Cobalt Core scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2179850/cobalt-coreReviews 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 24, price as of Oct 1.
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