Cogmind
Worth it · Roguelike · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.60/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 2,030
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Roguelike
Holding it back: Early access, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 42h
- Achievements
- 479
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 December 2017
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to <1% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 67 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Caves of Qud ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats The Doors of Trithius ($19.99, scores 69).
More about Cogmind
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 20 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
One of the two long and tense games I enjoy (the other one being XCOM2012 LWR): Cogmind acknowledges that players will optimize the fun out of the games, and implements ways to make those boring play patterns unoptimal. Those countermeasures are well aligned with the in-game world, which keeps up the already excellent immersion. The downside of Cogmind is that it is heavy and long, so it's hard to pick up again...
2 more reviews
Genuinely unique and challenging rougelike with virtually limitless build potential. Here's my honest and concise review around twenty hours in. Pros: -Build potential is genuinely insane. The game allows for massive amounts of creativity. The game may heavily punish un-optimized builds, but it certainly allows it. -Immensely challenging. Most other rougelikes allow you to get to a point where you're practically...
I don't understand this game yet. I know I can understand it, but It's very layered and difficult to get a grasp on. Here's what I do understand: This is as close as I've ever seen to an actual guerilla warfare roguelike, in much the same way as AI War Fleet Command is the closest I've ever seen to a guerilla warfare strategy game. You're always on the back foot, swarmed by tens or hundreds of enemies, hounded by...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Anything, 82 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cogmind scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/722730/cogmindReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.