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Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander cover art

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Walternate Realities · 2022-10-24

Steam

SimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 24, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

446
playing now
94%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
23
twitch viewers (latest)
72/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

446 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander is an upcoming space sandbox video game. Players design and build fleets of spaceships, which they use to fight other ships and gather resources. Its central conceit is its modeling of crew, which are modeled moving resources around ships and crewing equipment on them. The game supports a PvE mode in single-player or cooperative multiplayer, and a competitive PvP mode. In development for over 11 years, Cosmoteer was developed and published by Walternate Realities, and released in early access for Windows in October 2022. Critics praised the game's concept and its ship building system in particular, while the other parts of the game, such as its combat, received mixed feedback.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 446 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 685 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~86/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,040 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 257k–577k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,827 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.99 at Steam (2025-07-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.0k3.0k20222026Week of 2022-10-01: 1,319 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,954 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 660 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 470 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5772202026-08-06 22:00 — 346 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 232 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 413 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 429 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 306 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 483 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 493 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 345 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 543 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 437 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 231 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 374 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 373 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 259 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 418 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 369 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 243 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 439 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 444 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 220 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 321 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 504 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 364 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 426 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 497 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 292 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 310 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 451 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 446 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$13.992022-10-242026-07-292022-10-24 — best price $17.992022-12-22 — best price $17.992023-03-16 — best price $17.992023-05-11 — best price $17.992023-06-15 — best price $16.992023-08-23 — best price $16.992023-10-04 — best price $16.992023-11-21 — best price $15.992023-12-02 — best price $15.992023-12-21 — best price $15.992024-02-28 — best price $15.992024-03-14 — best price $15.992024-04-14 — best price $15.992024-05-29 — best price $15.992024-06-27 — best price $15.992024-07-15 — best price $15.992024-08-29 — best price $15.992024-10-12 — best price $15.992024-11-27 — best price $15.992024-12-06 — best price $14.992025-01-18 — best price $14.992025-03-03 — best price $14.992025-04-29 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-07-30 — best price $13.992025-09-12 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-10-26 — best price $14.992025-12-09 — best price $13.992026-01-17 — best price $14.992026-03-05 — best price $13.992026-04-18 — best price $13.992026-06-01 — best price $13.992026-06-25 — best price $13.992026-07-15 — best price $13.992026-07-29 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1312026-07-02 — 10 pageviews2026-07-04 — 5 pageviews2026-07-06 — 2 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-14 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 2 pageviews2026-07-18 — 10 pageviews2026-07-20 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-24 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 12 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-09 — 6 pageviews2026-08-11 — 10 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-19 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 11 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

3002026-08-28 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 19 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 23 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam WorkshopCamera Comfort

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceSci-fiBuildingStrategySurvivalDifficultSpace SimSimulation

Census log

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

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