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Cashtronauts

Simon Prefontaine · 2016-08-31

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Aug 31, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take to the stars and smuggle, shoot, scavenge and steal your way to wealth and glory! Cashtronauts is fast-paced space capitalism at its finest. How are you going to make your millions?

Cashtronauts is a 2016 Action and Indie game priced at $2.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (71% of 69 reviews).

71%
positive of 70 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 70 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.50 at Steam (2018-06-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152025Week of 2015-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$0.502015-08-132026-07-092015-08-13 — best price $6.792015-08-19 — best price $7.992015-12-01 — best price $7.992016-01-04 — best price $7.992016-04-25 — best price $4.792016-06-23 — best price $4.792016-08-31 — best price $6.792016-11-07 — best price $3.992016-11-23 — best price $3.992016-12-22 — best price $1.592017-02-20 — best price $3.992017-06-22 — best price $1.592017-12-21 — best price $0.792018-03-30 — best price $2.992018-07-05 — best price $2.992019-07-09 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-05-11 — best price $7.992020-05-25 — best price $7.992024-12-19 — best price $0.742025-02-10 — best price $0.712025-03-13 — best price $0.712025-03-24 — best price $0.712025-05-05 — best price $0.712025-06-26 — best price $0.712025-07-14 — best price $0.712025-08-25 — best price $0.712025-09-29 — best price $0.712025-12-01 — best price $0.712025-12-18 — best price $0.712026-01-12 — best price $0.712026-02-23 — best price $0.712026-03-19 — best price $0.712026-04-06 — best price $0.712026-06-08 — best price $0.712026-06-25 — best price $0.712026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieSpaceActionDinosaursCapitalismBullet HellLocal Co-OpSplit Screen4 Player LocalTwin Stick Shooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.