Cosmic Express
Fair · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.3h 14.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.05/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 629 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.60 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
About the game
Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 76 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Monster's Expedition ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Osmos ($9.99, scores 59).
More about Cosmic Express
4 of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
32% start to 9% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game overstays it's welcome, badly. After a dozen puzzles or so it feels repetitive. This gets worse as the difficulty goes up, because it's very hard to think through the larger boards without brute forcing some attempts, I never really felt like I was solving something, just working on it until something went right. The difficulty curve is all over the place. Some of the hardest puzzles in the game are in the...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Maybe I'm dumb but it felt like I was bruteforcing the hardest puzzles in this game instead of "solving" them. I liked that the developers tried to push the limits with a veeery small amount of mechanics but this type of puzzles is just not for me. Other than that - every puzzle felt unique so that's good.
Played on Steam Deck. I like Draknek puzzles but this one didn't catch me. I struggled to get started on each puzzle without random experimentation, which if intentional is why I did not enjoy it. Many of the puzzles did not feel like there was a crux to discover, just an order of laying down tracks to stumble upon.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cosmic Express scores 63/100 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/583270/cosmic-expressReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.