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Cosmic Pioneer cover art

Cosmic Pioneer

Amaterasu Software · 2017-06-07

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 07, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Navigate through space and successfully land your spacecraft without crashing. Cosmic Pioneer is heavily inspired by the classic Moon Lander game. Traverses the galaxy made of randomly generated levels filled with various hazards, keep track of your ships condition and aim for the highest score.

Cosmic Pioneer is a Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2017, estimated to have 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners, priced at $0.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (53% of 83 reviews).

0
playing now
53%
positive of 83 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 83 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.30 at Steam (2023-03-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1570Jun 2017Aug 2024Jun 2017 — avg 92 · peak 611Aug 2017 — avg 98 · peak 909Oct 2017 — avg 25 · peak 423Dec 2017 — avg 30 · peak 895Feb 2018 — avg 11 · peak 191Apr 2018 — avg 6 · peak 196Jun 2018 — avg 2 · peak 99Aug 2018 — avg 6 · peak 109Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 8Dec 2018 — avg 4 · peak 100Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 45Apr 2019 — avg 4 · peak 72Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 8Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 84Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 16Mar 2021 — avg 4 · peak 200Jun 2021 — avg 18 · peak 827Sep 2021 — avg 22 · peak 437Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 18Jan 2022 — avg 10 · peak 104Mar 2022 — avg 20 · peak 814Jul 2022 — avg 4 · peak 14Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 10Jan 2023 — avg 9 · peak 91Mar 2023 — avg 147 · peak 2,843May 2023 — avg 38 · peak 460Jul 2023 — avg 157 · peak 1,620Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2024 — avg 1 · peak 2

▼ −1 avg players (−56.3%) vs prior month — Aug 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$0.99$0.302017-06-082026-07-232017-06-08 — best price $0.992018-09-06 — best price $0.992019-01-04 — best price $0.992019-07-31 — best price $0.492019-11-01 — best price $0.492020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-03-06 — best price $0.992020-06-13 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-01-21 — best price $0.992021-03-18 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-09-18 — best price $0.992021-11-16 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-05-28 — best price $0.512022-07-11 — best price $0.512022-10-04 — best price $0.512022-11-23 — best price $0.512023-01-19 — best price $0.512023-03-16 — best price $0.302023-05-28 — best price $0.302023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-01-10 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-05-21 — best price $0.492024-08-30 — best price $0.492024-11-27 — best price $0.492025-01-17 — best price $0.492025-06-26 — best price $0.492025-11-01 — best price $0.492026-02-11 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-23 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualSimulation

Census log

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

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