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Cobalt cover art

Cobalt

Oxeye Game Studio · Mojang · 2016-02-02

SteamXboxMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 02, 2016 (Xbox One), Feb 02, 2016 (Xbox 360), Feb 02, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 713 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
55/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Cobalt is an action side-scrolling video game developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang Studios. It was released on February 2nd, 2016, for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–43k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 713 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2016-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $8.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$6.992016-02-022026-08-292016-02-02 — best price $19.992016-02-17 — best price $19.992016-04-11 — best price $13.392016-04-18 — best price $19.992016-06-23 — best price $6.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992017-12-01 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $7.492018-01-04 — best price $14.992026-08-29 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam Achievements

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)3,3610%50
Steam (Steam)1,1950%84
Xbox 360 (Xbox)1783%50

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieActionRobotsSci-fiShooterAdventurePlatformerBullet Time

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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