Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
BANGER · Strategy · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 87.1h
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB DirectX 10 Graphics Card or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
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 $13.99. That was July 2025. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oxygen Not Included ($24.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Starship ($11.99, scores 31).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $66.17. It costs $19.99.
Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 453 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Players
307 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The mechanics are incredible, and fighting is satisfying, but the world itself is boring. Building the ship is complex and the larger the ship, the harder and more satisfying it becomes to optimize. The game is still early access but the developers seem to be only focused on the ship building aspect of the game, and it's a shame if the decide not further work on the world. 10/10 for the ship building and fighting...
It´s awesome but I´m still waiting for the real campaign. It´s been years! The rest of the gameplay loop is perfect though, so I will happily wait some more :D
An over-engineered ship designer that nonetheless manages to disappoint with its lack of variety. The "game" around it amounts to a wallpaper.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/799600/cosmoteer-starship-architect-commanderReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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