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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 1992 (DOS), Sep 04, 2014 (Mac), Sep 04, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 04, 2014 (Linux)

What's green with red spots, has suction hands, and has an overbite like Bart Simpson? Of course, the answer is Cosmo! Cosmo is a young alien on his way to visit Disney World with his parents. That is, until their ship is struck by a blazing comet, forcing them to land on an uncharted planet.

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure is a 2014 Action, Adventure game priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Very Positive sentiment (88% of 152 reviews).

1
playing now
88%
positive of 153 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure: Forbidden Planet is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software. It is a two-dimensional side-scrolling platform game. The game was released in mid March 1992 for MS-DOS compatible systems.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.8k–9.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 153 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.85-83%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at GOG (2023-09-18) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 77 of 100 observed days · $0.26 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20May 2015Jun 2026May 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2023 — avg 1 · peak 7May 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2025 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2026 — avg 1 · peak 5

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Jun 2026

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

Price history

$39.99$0.592015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-07-31 — best price $4.992016-07-04 — best price $4.992018-04-10 — best price $5.992018-12-20 — best price $2.492020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-05-26 — best price $4.492020-07-17 — best price $4.992020-08-16 — best price $4.992020-09-10 — best price $4.992020-10-13 — best price $4.992020-11-10 — best price $4.992020-12-05 — best price $4.992021-01-19 — best price $4.992021-02-12 — best price $3.662021-03-16 — best price $4.492021-04-19 — best price $4.492021-05-14 — best price $4.492021-06-18 — best price $2.992021-12-13 — best price $2.392022-05-09 — best price $4.992022-08-24 — best price $3.662022-12-01 — best price $5.992023-03-06 — best price $0.992023-07-04 — best price $5.992023-12-13 — best price $0.592024-03-14 — best price $0.842024-06-05 — best price $4.992024-08-15 — best price $4.492024-11-13 — best price $4.992025-02-14 — best price $3.742025-05-09 — best price $4.992025-08-20 — best price $0.842025-11-17 — best price $0.842026-03-17 — best price $0.852026-05-28 — best price $3.702026-08-25 — best price $0.852026-09-12 — best price $0.852026-09-28 — best price $0.852026-10-14 — best price $0.85
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

123122026-05-31 — 25 pageviews2026-06-04 — 19 pageviews2026-06-08 — 32 pageviews2026-06-12 — 17 pageviews2026-06-16 — 33 pageviews2026-06-20 — 123 pageviews2026-06-24 — 25 pageviews2026-06-28 — 38 pageviews2026-07-02 — 24 pageviews2026-07-06 — 29 pageviews2026-07-10 — 21 pageviews2026-07-14 — 22 pageviews2026-07-18 — 27 pageviews2026-07-22 — 27 pageviews2026-07-26 — 26 pageviews2026-07-30 — 20 pageviews2026-08-03 — 35 pageviews2026-08-07 — 19 pageviews2026-08-11 — 27 pageviews2026-08-15 — 24 pageviews2026-08-19 — 32 pageviews2026-08-23 — 26 pageviews2026-08-27 — 24 pageviews2026-08-31 — 25 pageviews2026-09-04 — 32 pageviews2026-09-08 — 17 pageviews2026-09-12 — 21 pageviews2026-09-16 — 22 pageviews2026-09-20 — 26 pageviews2026-09-24 — 35 pageviews2026-09-28 — 22 pageviews2026-10-02 — 35 pageviews2026-10-06 — 18 pageviews2026-10-10 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRetro1990'sActionClassicAdventurePlatformerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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