Cogmind
Worth it · Roguelike · 2017 · Early Access
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Anything, 82 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in December 2017. It has been discounted 65 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 10 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Caves of Qud ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Stoneshard ($24.99, scores 38).
This site sampled 347 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
25 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cogmind scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/722730/cogmindThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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