RecommendedSteam player
103 hours in 10 days with a full time job says enough right?Show moreShow less
103.3 hours at review451 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander is a strong fit if you want to design a ship’s layout, crew workflow, and combat plan rather than only steer a finished vessel. The current ≈ $12.36 at 
GAMIVO is the lowest point tracked by this site. Single-player, online co-op, and PvP give your designs several places to perform, while Creative Mode removes resource limits for experimentation. At $13.99 on Steam, Standard on Steam offers a direct saving of ≈ $1.63 compared with Steam.
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KinguinCosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander Steam AltergiftAll-time low ~ $13.99across Steam & third-party storesat the recorded all-time low
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $13.992025-07Current Low Across Stores~ $13.99SteamAt its historical low now
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01About Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Design fully customizable starships, place weapons, engines, corridors, and quarters, then see how your layout shapes each battle. Individually simulated crew operate systems and carry ammunition while you command ships or fleets in real-time combat. Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, take faction contracts, earn loot, and upgrade your ship alone or in online co-op. The Steam PC version supports single-player, online co-op, and multiple online PvP modes. Creative Mode provides unlimited resources. Released: October 24, 2022. Steam player rating: 94% from 12,091 reviews.
Credits
Developer
Walternate Realities
Publisher
Walternate Realities
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$13.992025-07-30 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| Simplified Chinese | Yes | — | — |
| English | Yes | — | — |
| French | Yes | — | — |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| German | Yes | — | — |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | — | — |
| Russian | Yes | — | — |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | — | — |
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| Japanese | Yes | — | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-23
02Before you buy
Modes
The Steam PC version supports single-player, online co-op, and multiple online PvP battle modes.
Languages
The interface supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Building and mods
Ships can be shared through Steam Workshop, and the modding framework supports additional weapons, modules, and other enhancements.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander?
You design ships, assign crew tasks, and command real-time battles.
Can you play with others?
Yes. The Steam PC version supports online co-op and online PvP in multiple battle modes.
Is there a creative mode?
Yes. Creative Mode provides unlimited resources for unrestricted building.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
I enjoy the ship building. It's simplistic, but polished. But the campaign is empty and dull. I think this is a lesson all of these voxel vehicle games need to learn. The building part can't exist in a bubble. You need an engaging campaign or sandbox... not as a second thought... not as a tack-on for final pre-release polish... but it needs to be core to your vision and placed on equal footing with the build mechanics, rich and interesting enough to feel like the player has a reason to be here. Cosmoteer has so far not achieved this.Show moreShow less
79.4 hours at review121 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
It's not bad, bought it 20 minutes ago and already played 7 hours.Show moreShow less
7.1 hours at review386 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Having owned this game for a little over a year I discovered this game with extreme excitement. In that time my disappointment has only grown with every update. The entire flow of the game design and balance feels catered towards the 1% PVP player. Ship design has been stagnant since I first looked into high-end design and any suggested updates to shake up design have been shot down instantly with reasoning generally stating it would break existing ship designs, built in or otherwise. Additionally, any balance suggestions are only considered if a group of players known as the balance council deem them relevant, ignoring the input of the broader player base, regardless of the popularity of the suggestion. Soft design ideas such as how enjoyable a specific weapon or ship is to engage with in game play are disregarded in favor of how well the ships perform in internal testing with experienced pilots. As the game is in early access with a content roadmap, new content is to be expected. There was, however, minimal content drops throughout the last year. The majority of content released in my time with the game involved more built-in ships and balance updates that had little tangible effect on gameplay. In the past year, a new faction was added to the career mode (the single or multi-player "campaign"). As the current focal point of the road map, this was a disappointment. This update also included two new mechanics: thermal controls and over-clocking. The thermal controls also brought the only new weapon of the year, the thermal resonance lance which, after all is considered, is just another beam weapon that does not change the way ships fight. An honorable mention is the thermal missiles which set parts of the ship on fire, which is also the most annoying mechanic to interact with as a player because it forces you to divert crew to handle the fires. In PVP this isn't an issue, however in single-player crew is your limiting factor for ship growth and general progression. The other aspect of the update is overclocking. Overclocking is a multi-player update. Its implementation in career is frustrating and boring. In order to overclock a single part, you need to unlock the part, the idea of overclocking, and the overclock blueprint for that specific part. I would not recommend anyone pick up this game in its current state. The release cycle is criminally slow. The development style prioritizes spreadsheet optimization over fun. Any suggestions are met with "there's a mod for that" rather than serious consideration regardless of the scope, purpose, or quality of the suggestion.Show moreShow less
632 hours at review109 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
Bought this game 48 hours ago already spent 36 hours playing it. already have 3 ships in my growing fleet All of them are named penis in different languages. All of them are phallus shaped I do not have a problem, you have a problem.Show moreShow less
48.8 hours at review285 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
I've been exceptionally patient wit Cosmoteer. It's pretty much a ship builder with an incredibly light career mode which happens to be no more than a crew grinder. You could interact with the game in the intended method, or just make a production facility ship at the very start and just buy/produce everything that way. Why waste time shooting other ships when that has a massive resource cost? It's far easier to just ignore that and futz about on your production ship, selling goods to the stations in the sector. Career mode is a waste of time. Modders have done wonders to improve the game experience which is frankly telling of what's to come. Why would any developer at this point continue working at anything other than a snail's pace? Modders are doing ♥♥♥♥ for free for you. They don't see a dime of that profit you made, and you get to sit back and enjoy the positivity of the community while having done nothing new in months.Show moreShow less
30.7 hours at review94 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
30 mins passes: ok im getting the hang of this 1 hour passes: this is fun 4 hours pass: just onnnnneeeeee more upgrade 13 hours pass: maybe one more quest 17 hours pass: helpShow moreShow less
17.8 hours at review265 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
I wish steam would let you rate a game "mid" Its not a bad game its just very repetitive. Started with the laser ship, did some bounties, got famous, made a bigger ship to fight bigger enemies. Got bored... after a while, made a pure mining factory ship, mined a ♥♥♥♥ ton of copper to make hyper coils and got 1 mil credits easily. Bought all blueprints and can make any ship I want (although progression being blocked by crew members). Do I recommend this game? Well if you absolutely love building ships and blowing enemies up which allows you to build bigger ships and blowing bigger enemies up and doing this over and over and over again? Then this is the game for you. BUT If you are like me and get bored of simple repetitive gameplay loops, then I suggest you wait for the developers to add more stuff (or buy this game on sale)Show moreShow less
19.6 hours at review88 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
load up the game play for 30 hours sleep 5 hours load up the game play for 30 hours sleep 5 hours it never ends and i want moreShow moreShow less
33.4 hours at review256 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Last time I played it I really liked the ship building and combat aspects. Where it's light is on the world you get to fly around in. I'd like that to have much more of a "choose your own adventure" open world dynamic. I'd like wars between the empires that you can get involved in or not, and I'd prefer if each system didn't have a preset difficulty level. I'd really love this star ship builder if the world it took place in was more fleshed out. Personally just building the spaceship doesn't do it for me.Show moreShow less
8.6 hours at review82 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.