Cargo Commander
Fair · Roguelike · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $1.24, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 75%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 11.8h
- Value
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 75% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($1.24)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible; integrated or very low budget cards may not work, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Alone in space, light years away from your family, armed with only your Fistcannon™; you are Cargo Corps' latest recruit, a Cargo Commander.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was December 2018. It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $1.24 at 75 percent off still sits 153 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats GoNNER ($1.99, scores 52).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 30, 2.5 times as much.
The drop-off
42% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Boring and repetative. The idea is interesting but it's not well enough made to get a positive review
I wish I could launch this game into space. (I also wish I could give a neutral review) Cargo Commander is a pretty straightforward title. You play as a guy who's stranded in space with the job of salvaging cargo from random other ships that collide with yours. In said ships you'll find a bunch of random cargo, enemies, weapons and pickups. And that's it. That's the game. You basically rinse and repeat the same loop...
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Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cargo Commander scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220460/cargo-commanderReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 2.
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