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Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Walternate Realities · 2022-10-24

Steam

SimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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!

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander is a 2022 Simulation, Strategy and Early Access title priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (94% of 12875 reviews).

289
playing now
94%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
72/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
19
Nexus mods (13k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

289 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 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
  • · 289 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 3% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 259k–583k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,957 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 8 of 16 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

5572042026-09-15 12:00 — 288 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 394 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 222 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 417 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 557 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 268 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 245 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 408 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 334 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 332 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 368 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 283 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 204 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 343 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 451 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 252 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 377 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 343 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 231 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 464 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 539 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 284 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 289 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5.8k376Oct 2022Aug 2026Oct 2022 — avg 5,139 · peak 11,431Dec 2022 — avg 2,114 · peak 4,931Feb 2023 — avg 750 · peak 1,531Apr 2023 — avg 592 · peak 1,119Jun 2023 — avg 588 · peak 1,690Aug 2023 — avg 649 · peak 1,300Oct 2023 — avg 839 · peak 1,617Dec 2023 — avg 962 · peak 1,767Feb 2024 — avg 562 · peak 1,078Apr 2024 — avg 521 · peak 975Jun 2024 — avg 553 · peak 1,002Aug 2024 — avg 592 · peak 1,164Oct 2024 — avg 799 · peak 1,596Dec 2024 — avg 838 · peak 1,740Feb 2025 — avg 594 · peak 1,196Apr 2025 — avg 452 · peak 807Jun 2025 — avg 463 · peak 838Aug 2025 — avg 1,288 · peak 2,815Oct 2025 — avg 465 · peak 990Dec 2025 — avg 463 · peak 817Feb 2026 — avg 485 · peak 848Apr 2026 — avg 446 · peak 877Jun 2026 — avg 444 · peak 833Aug 2026 — avg 376 · peak 683
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
14142026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 14 new positive2026-09-21: 6 new negative2026-09-22: 2 new negative2026-09-23: 3 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new positive2026-09-26: 5 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new negative2026-09-27: 2 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-09-28: 3 new negative2026-09-29: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 3 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 2 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new positive2026-10-07: 3 new positive2026-10-08: 4 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-10: 5 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new positive2026-10-12: 3 new positive2026-10-12: 2 new negative2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 3 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

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 pageviews2026-07-05 — 1 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-11 — 7 pageviews2026-07-14 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 11 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-16 — 7 pageviews2026-08-19 — 5 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 11 pageviews2026-09-03 — 5 pageviews2026-09-06 — 10 pageviews2026-09-09 — 6 pageviews2026-09-12 — 8 pageviews2026-09-15 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 10 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-27 — 12 pageviews2026-09-30 — 7 pageviews2026-10-03 — 9 pageviews2026-10-06 — 8 pageviews2026-10-09 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1702026-09-30 21:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 10:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-09 19:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 0 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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceSci-fiBuildingStrategySurvivalDifficultSpace SimSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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