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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

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!

0
playing now
62%
positive of 47 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.04
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 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.

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  • · Top 78% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$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 30 of 55 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-07-13 — best price $6.992015-12-01 — best price $6.992016-03-25 — best price $1.492016-07-25 — best price $6.992016-11-04 — best price $6.992017-03-08 — best price $1.042017-06-26 — best price $1.492017-10-24 — best price $6.992017-12-18 — best price $6.992018-02-27 — best price $6.992018-07-02 — best price $1.742018-10-24 — best price $1.742018-12-18 — best price $1.752019-03-05 — best price $5.992019-05-24 — best price $1.742019-08-30 — best price $1.752019-11-08 — best price $1.752020-01-06 — best price $1.492020-03-16 — best price $1.492020-05-26 — best price $6.992020-08-17 — best price $6.992020-11-03 — best price $6.992021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-04-05 — best price $1.742021-07-18 — best price $6.992021-11-01 — best price $1.742022-01-20 — best price $1.492022-04-25 — best price $6.992022-07-30 — best price $6.992023-08-28 — best price $2.392024-02-05 — best price $6.992024-06-06 — best price $2.992024-11-05 — best price $5.992025-03-21 — best price $1.392025-08-04 — best price $6.992025-11-05 — best price $5.992026-02-12 — best price $1.192026-05-30 — best price $5.992026-08-30 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Census log

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

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