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Ostranauts

Blue Bottle Games · Kitfox Games · 2026-08-03

Steam

IndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 10, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Ostranauts is an Indie, RPG, and Simulation game released in 2026, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, priced at $19.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 2975 reviews).

168
playing now
77%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30
Nexus mods (9.9k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Trailer

Ostranauts trailer thumbnail

Ostranauts 1.0 - Official Launch Trailer

≈9,167 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 168 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 486 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~61/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 49,650 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 66k–149k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,304 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.99 at Steam (2020-09-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16216220202026Week of 2020-09-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 86 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3561482026-09-15 00:00 — 334 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 194 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 262 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 284 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 238 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 232 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 278 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 178 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 202 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 325 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 226 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 161 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 285 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 232 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 213 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 350 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 238 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 148 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 232 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 224 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 206 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 215 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 221 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 168 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
6094Sep 2020Aug 2026Sep 2020 — avg 33 · peak 160Nov 2020 — avg 7 · peak 24Jan 2021 — avg 5 · peak 17Mar 2021 — avg 7 · peak 19May 2021 — avg 5 · peak 13Jul 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Sep 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Nov 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2022 — avg 23 · peak 87Mar 2022 — avg 8 · peak 24May 2022 — avg 25 · peak 110Jul 2022 — avg 10 · peak 25Sep 2022 — avg 19 · peak 78Nov 2022 — avg 20 · peak 63Jan 2023 — avg 19 · peak 49Mar 2023 — avg 13 · peak 29May 2023 — avg 21 · peak 60Jul 2023 — avg 99 · peak 271Sep 2023 — avg 19 · peak 42Nov 2023 — avg 25 · peak 71Jan 2024 — avg 41 · peak 82Mar 2024 — avg 119 · peak 276May 2024 — avg 38 · peak 93Jul 2024 — avg 35 · peak 63Sep 2024 — avg 335 · peak 706Nov 2024 — avg 193 · peak 352Jan 2025 — avg 292 · peak 525Mar 2025 — avg 137 · peak 254May 2025 — avg 103 · peak 186Jul 2025 — avg 201 · peak 441Sep 2025 — avg 157 · peak 342Nov 2025 — avg 103 · peak 189Jan 2026 — avg 102 · peak 184Mar 2026 — avg 95 · peak 165May 2026 — avg 312 · peak 553Jul 2026 — avg 190 · peak 314Aug 2026 — avg 609 · peak 1,244
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-222026-10-092026-09-22: 6 new positive2026-09-22: 5 new negative2026-09-27: 2 new positive2026-09-27: 3 new negative2026-09-30: 2 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 1 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 1 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 3 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$20.00$15.992020-09-102026-09-282020-09-10 — best price $15.992020-09-18 — best price $20.002022-05-16 — best price $19.992022-08-08 — best price $19.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-05-11 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-09-09 — best price $19.992024-10-28 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992024-12-12 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-30 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-01 — best price $19.992025-05-23 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-14 — best price $19.992025-09-22 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-10 — best price $19.992025-12-17 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-07 — best price $19.992026-03-16 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-05 — best price $19.992026-06-16 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $19.992026-09-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

1902026-09-30 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 05:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-01 09:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-05 06:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 12:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
13.8%
earned "Traveller"
1.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-09-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4620%31

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RPGSpaceSci-fiSandboxTradingTop-DownCyberpunkSpace SimOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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