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Cobalt Core

Rocket Rat Games · Brace Yourself Games · 2023-11-08

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 08, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 08, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

96%
positive of 4.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
87/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
87
Nexus mods (36k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Cobalt Core is a sci-fi roguelike deck-building game released in November 2023 for Nintendo Switch and Windows, and in July 2025 for macOS, developed by Rocket Rat Games and published by Brace Yourself Games. It follows a group of anthropomorphic animals trapped in a time loop, fighting various enemy spacecraft in an attempt to discover the origin of the loop and escape it.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 388 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~49/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 51,386 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 88k–199k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,421 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-05-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
93993920232026Week of 2023-11-01: 939 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 9 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$7.992023-11-082026-10-082023-11-08 — best price $17.992023-12-21 — best price $15.992024-02-12 — best price $15.992024-03-14 — best price $15.992024-03-25 — best price $15.992024-06-17 — best price $14.992024-08-28 — best price $14.992024-11-13 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $13.992024-12-19 — best price $13.992025-01-03 — best price $13.992025-02-21 — best price $13.992025-03-13 — best price $13.992025-04-06 — best price $13.992025-06-12 — best price $12.992025-08-07 — best price $12.992025-09-18 — best price $12.992025-09-29 — best price $12.992025-11-21 — best price $12.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-01-16 — best price $9.992026-03-02 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-05-04 — best price $7.992026-06-11 — best price $7.992026-10-01 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3492026-07-18 — 20 pageviews2026-07-21 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 19 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-30 — 9 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-05 — 24 pageviews2026-08-08 — 14 pageviews2026-08-11 — 23 pageviews2026-08-14 — 24 pageviews2026-08-17 — 17 pageviews2026-08-20 — 24 pageviews2026-08-23 — 13 pageviews2026-08-26 — 18 pageviews2026-08-29 — 25 pageviews2026-09-01 — 17 pageviews2026-09-04 — 15 pageviews2026-09-07 — 16 pageviews2026-09-10 — 23 pageviews2026-09-13 — 20 pageviews2026-09-16 — 19 pageviews2026-09-19 — 19 pageviews2026-09-22 — 34 pageviews2026-09-25 — 21 pageviews2026-09-28 — 18 pageviews2026-10-01 — 24 pageviews2026-10-04 — 25 pageviews2026-10-07 — 17 pageviews2026-10-10 — 24 pageviews2026-10-13 — 21 pageviews2026-10-15 — 27 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
79.4%
earned "The New Kid"
25.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-11-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,6755%15
Switch (Nintendo)590%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyLogicSpaceSci-fiStrategyTacticalCard GameRogue-likeDeckbuildingTactical RPG

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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