Cosmonautica
Skip · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 48% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible with 768 MB or better, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
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
June 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 81 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 78 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Endless Sky (free, scores 83) outscores it, and so does Anno 2205™ ($5.99, scores 31). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
19% start to <1% 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
The first impression was good, but the game is very poorly balanced. Easy tasks offer high rewards, while difficult tasks give low rewards and come with too many conditions. You can easily farm money on certain missions, but it quickly becomes boring, and there's no real incentive to take on complex ones. There are many small, unintuitive UI decisions-for example, the dialogue button used for social interactions...
Every once in a while I glance through the backlog to see if I picked out a "hidden gem" on a steam sale I forgot about. Also every once in a while I feel a hankerin' for a merchant trader game that can top the now ancient best in class OG that was Sid Meier's Pirates! (and some of its various successors). Unfortunately, Cosmonautica, while scratching the genre itch (but in SPACE), is not the droid I was looking...
changed the resolution and now its broken cant change it back (even with steam commands) + the devs abandoned it, so there goes my money
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cosmonautica scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/320340/cosmonauticaReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 21, price as of Oct 1.
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