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Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender cover art

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender

MicroProse Software, Inc. · Atari · 2014-10-17

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 24, 2014 (Linux), Oct 17, 2014 (Mac), Nov 01, 1992 (DOS), Mar 13, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A priceless vase is lost on a distant planet that doesn't exist! An irate colonel wants it back! And only one man is experienced enough... skilled enough... and foolish enough to retrieve it! Interstellar adventurer and bungling bachelor Rex Nebular!

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender is an Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $1.04, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 48 reviews).

0
playing now
63%
positive of 48 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$1.04
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by MicroProse. It was released in November 1992 for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS. The game is the first graphical adventure game developed by MicroProse, preceding Return of the Phantom and Dragonsphere. It was created using the MicroProse Adventure Development system and uses 256 colour graphics. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally released it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 28,838 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 55 of 92 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220142026Week of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.832015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-10-08 — best price $3.492016-02-25 — best price $1.742016-07-25 — best price $6.992016-11-29 — best price $6.992017-04-28 — best price $6.992017-10-24 — best price $6.992018-01-04 — best price $6.992018-06-04 — best price $1.492018-10-24 — best price $1.742019-01-04 — best price $5.992019-04-30 — best price $6.992019-08-30 — best price $1.752019-11-28 — best price $1.492020-02-04 — best price $6.992020-05-26 — best price $6.992020-09-16 — best price $1.752020-12-16 — best price $1.492021-04-05 — best price $1.742021-08-04 — best price $1.742021-12-13 — best price $1.492022-04-25 — best price $6.992023-03-06 — best price $0.972023-12-13 — best price $0.832024-06-06 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $1.392025-06-26 — best price $1.392025-11-05 — best price $5.992026-03-13 — best price $6.992026-08-21 — best price $1.042026-09-16 — best price $5.992026-10-06 — best price $0.892026-10-14 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

26352026-06-01 — 17 pageviews2026-06-05 — 18 pageviews2026-06-09 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 5 pageviews2026-06-17 — 21 pageviews2026-06-21 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 33 pageviews2026-06-29 — 15 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-11 — 15 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-19 — 12 pageviews2026-07-23 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 22 pageviews2026-08-04 — 20 pageviews2026-08-08 — 21 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 19 pageviews2026-08-20 — 17 pageviews2026-08-24 — 22 pageviews2026-08-28 — 18 pageviews2026-09-01 — 13 pageviews2026-09-05 — 47 pageviews2026-09-09 — 24 pageviews2026-09-13 — 18 pageviews2026-09-17 — 16 pageviews2026-09-21 — 57 pageviews2026-09-25 — 92 pageviews2026-09-29 — 47 pageviews2026-10-03 — 32 pageviews2026-10-07 — 23 pageviews2026-10-11 — 27 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

1990'sComedySci-fiClassicAdventurePoint & ClickPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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