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Cogs cover art

Cogs

Lazy 8 Studios · 2009-04-14

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 19, 2012 (Android), Apr 14, 2009 (Linux), Apr 14, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 14, 2009 (iOS), Apr 14, 2009 (Mac), Nov 03, 2011 (PlayStation 3)

Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines — gears, pipes,...

0
playing now
88%
positive of 921 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
16h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Cogs is a puzzle video game released in 2009 by Lazy 8 Studios, originally released as a Microsoft Windows title, but receiving subsequent ports to other operating systems, mobile platforms, and game consoles. The game requires the player to manipulate a three-dimensional object's sides as sliding block puzzles as to complete specific goals, such as meshing gears to complete a clockwork mechanism or routing gas flow through pipes to a balloon.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 22% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 37k–74k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 921 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2012-11-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-01-02 — best price $9.992015-07-10 — best price $9.952016-01-04 — best price $9.952016-01-15 — best price $2.492016-01-29 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $2.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-09-08 — best price $2.492016-09-22 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $4.992016-11-25 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-01-12 — best price $2.492017-01-26 — best price $9.992018-01-11 — best price $4.992018-01-24 — best price $9.992018-11-20 — best price $5.992019-05-10 — best price $2.492019-05-23 — best price $9.992024-12-21 — best price $3.982025-01-01 — best price $9.952025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992026-01-16 — best price $2.992026-01-30 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $3.592026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $3.592026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-05-30 — 1 pageviews2026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 5 pageviews2026-06-11 — 1 pageviews2026-06-14 — 5 pageviews2026-06-17 — 3 pageviews2026-06-20 — 0 pageviews2026-06-23 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 4 pageviews2026-07-02 — 5 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 2 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 3 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 5 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
49.8%
earned "Aptitude"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)16,5794%18

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

Player tags

3DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleDifficultSteampunkSingleplayerFamily Friendly

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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