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rymdkapsel

grapefrukt games · 2014-01-30

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 30, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 30, 2014 (Mac), Jan 30, 2014 (Linux), Jul 31, 2013 (Android), Aug 01, 2013 (iOS), May 08, 2013 (PlayStation Vita)

Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.

rymdkapsel is a 2014 Indie and Strategy game priced at $7.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 279 reviews) and an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
82%
positive of 279 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Rymdkapsel is a 2013 minimalist real-time strategy video game by indie developer Grapefrukt, the studio of Martin Jonasson. Players build a space station using tetromino pieces while managing resources and minions, defending against attacks, and extending the base towards four monoliths at the edges of the level. The game was built over a year and a half and was inspired by the base-building aspects of the Command & Conquer series. It was Jonasson's first full game as an indie developer. Rymdkapsel was released on May 7, 2013, for PlayStation Mobile, and was later ported to iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. Reviewers gave the game generally favorable reviews, where they appreciated its simplicity and challenge, but not its brevity and slow start.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.0k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 279 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2021-02-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220142026Week of 2014-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$1.592015-01-012025-11-042015-01-01 — best price $3.192015-05-01 — best price $7.992015-05-20 — best price $4.792015-06-22 — best price $7.992015-09-05 — best price $5.352015-11-02 — best price $7.992016-01-15 — best price $2.712016-05-20 — best price $7.992016-07-14 — best price $7.992016-12-15 — best price $3.992017-05-25 — best price $7.992017-07-05 — best price $7.992017-11-01 — best price $7.992017-11-28 — best price $7.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992019-01-03 — best price $7.992019-10-28 — best price $1.992019-12-03 — best price $7.992020-06-25 — best price $3.992020-11-02 — best price $7.992020-12-22 — best price $3.992021-02-15 — best price $7.992021-10-28 — best price $4.792021-12-01 — best price $7.992022-06-23 — best price $4.792022-11-29 — best price $7.992023-01-23 — best price $1.592023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-08-28 — best price $1.592023-11-28 — best price $7.992024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-10-23 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-11-04 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1912026-06-02 — 2 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 5 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2 pageviews2026-07-08 — 8 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 6 pageviews2026-07-28 — 19 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-05 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 9 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 6 pageviews2026-09-14 — 6 pageviews2026-09-18 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 4 pageviews2026-09-30 — 3 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 5 pageviews2026-10-11 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
82.6%
earned "Research Any Monolith"
5.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeColor AlternativesMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundTouch Only OptionSteam Cloud

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9213%10

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

Player tags

2DRTSIndieShortSpaceCasualPuzzleRelaxingStrategyMinimalist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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