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Game
Game2015
Cosmonautica
Developer Chasing Carrots
Cosmonautica is a video game that blends aspects of life simulation and space trading. Players take control of a spaceship and crew it with characters, each of which has their own needs and skills. By acquiring credits through missions, players can expand and customize their ship. It was released via early access on PC in 2014, and the retail version was released in July 2015 for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
185 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Aug 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
32
Rotten
58 positive · 126 negative
95% range 25–39%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
571 of 1,191 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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Reactions
60 of 185 · most liked first[CLOSED] [STEAM] Christmas Steam Key Giveaway -- Part 2. You can send me a list of up to 5 titles, and at the end of the day I will send the keys out (randomly choosing if multiple people want the same game). Also check out [Part 1](https://lemmy.ca/post/35607838)! * ~~Caesar III~~ * ~~Caesar IV~~ * ~~Canabalt~~ * Capsized * Car Dealer * Car Mechanic Manager * Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 * Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 + DLC * ~~Car Mechanic Simulator 2018~~ * ~~Carcassonne: Tiles and…
unlabelledView post →The devs have sadly announced that this is a dead game. They're unable to fix the product and stop crashes and other errors that make it unplayable for more than an hour or so at a time. While I love the concept of the game, the art style, and the feel of the game. It also feels pretty empty. Then again since the game crashes, I never get very far into things. So who knows, maybe it gets more enjoyable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buyer beware. This game is abandoned and unfinished and never will be.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs just dropped the game. It COULD have been a good, amazing even. Instead its half done, left by the wayside and still $10. I am so incredibly disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned before it was finished
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy, multiple CTDs. Its fun and worth it on a super sale, but otherwise ehh. Bugs: My biggest annoyance is if you are doing a mission to bring something somewhere and get attached by pirates, if you and the pirate both run out of ammo, you can't do anything. You can't flee because they are faster then you, they can't destroy you or force you to surrender because they ran out of ammo. You can't destroy them because you did too. Now both ships just fly around each other with nothing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointed that this was abandoned. Guess we should have known, with a dev named "Chasing Carrots".
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Abandoned by Devs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Be warned this game is not complete and not polished. It will crash and the devs have stop supporting the game. DO NOT BUY this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had potential. Devs abandoned it Not worth a purchase!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They abandoned this game made major excuses and didn't update it anymore. In a world where there is plenty of early access titles with dedicated devs this so called "complete" game should be avoided and It should not be for sale. Don't buy it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll be perfectly honest, there's nothing overtly objectionable about this game. It runs fine, it's put together well, it's clear enough to understand, but I personally find it kinda boring, and as such I can't recommend it. I will however say that the music is good and worth chilling out to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was really hoping this game would satisfy an itch that hasn't been really found since Freelancer. Instead it was a lot of repetitive, tedious grinding with a forgivably cheesy story. The good: - Nice, clean interface - Really easy to pick up how to accomplish tasks - Fair number of ship options and customizations - Lots of crew options and ways to level them up Could be better - Crew interaction was very flat. Characters have 3 different interests, but they're level dependent so as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really love this game, I could play this for weeks, if only it was actually finished. I got to a part where I can't go anywhere else in the game, missions stop, and at first I thought it was a glitch that I couldn't finish, but it was because this game is unfinished. I don't know why the developers decided not to finish the game, I just wish they did because I really loved this game. Even though I love this game i can't recommend it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looked fun enough, but the bugs, poor pacing and random difficulty spikes (trader for 90% of the game suddenly needs to fight a tough battle) killed it for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painfully obvious that this game is unfinished, it is fraught with bugs and unbalanced mechanics, and the UI is awful. Could probably be a pretty good game if it was finished and not abandoned, and if there was something to do when your ship is travelling other than starting at your screen for a few minutes with literally nothing to do. The UI is very clumsy and confusing, it's just bad UI design, not easy or comfortable to navigate and far from smooth or seamless. It gives me vibes of certain…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They didn't finish it and decided to keep selling it anyway. Your basic low-level early access cash grab and abandon job.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a disappointment. There is some greatness here but overall this game is not really playable. The art, music, atmosphere are all great and I had no problems with performance. This game is unfinished. It wasn't tested and balanced. So many parts of the game seem like the stub of an idea that needed fleshed out. The research upgrade tree is lame and feels incomplete. The leveling of the crew is poorly designed. Your crew either operates totally efficiently so that the management…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had promise but was abandoned by the developer before it could be realized
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The devs have said that they don't intend to fix the glaring bugs that are in the game. I love starting to figure things out and screwing up the first couple times because the interface isn't clear what I'm clicking on, and then taking a mission that is uncompletable and after cancelling it being permanently stuck with phantom cargo in my hold that cannot be removed and counts against my total.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know, i never really got over the fact they abandoned this game. Its just not done. The sandbox is only half there. Eat my cheese devs. This game is NOT worth buying under any circumstances.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game can be a lot of fun. The story is amusing and the gameplay is not horrible. The trading is middle of the road, but ok. The combat could be a bit more intuitive, but ok. The big reason for the negative review is that the game has turned into a crashfest. It also appears that the dev team abandoned ship on the game, and there have been no updated in years. Unless you get this for < 5.00, I'd probably avoid this due to the crashing. I'm lucky to get in an hour of play before it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You spend all your money making the crew happy and then 3 days later they abandon you, or you take damage from some random debris field, or they get sick and die, and all this in the first few days of travel. It just doesn't allow new players to keep up! NOT FUN!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun game, It's just dead. No development Spend your money at your own risk.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the saddest displays of a great concept/good early access game that falls apart as time goes on. I loved this game when it first came out for early access and bought it then. I redownloaded it recently for nostalgia purposes to see how far it's gone and it's worse then it was. More bugs, more errors, and no new content. The game is a disaster and I hope no one else has to waste their money on this piece of garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has the potential to be a very enjoyable game, but the save game functionality sucks, and the game is very unforgiving of mistakes. One bad call can wipe you out and then it’s back to square one. I'm not the only to complain and ask for a change to the save game functionality, but so far the devs have stubbornly stuck to their guns and no change is forth coming. A classic case of a game developer not listening to their player base and as a result I predict this one will fizzle into obscurity. A…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damn.... I started off playing this game and having a decent amount of fun, but that fun will evtually give way to frustration as you realize you've seen all the gameplay there is in the first hour. Trading is the meat and potatoes of this game, yet its so lackluster that it ends up being a kick in the teeth as youre on the ground screaming in agony. Want to learn how to trade in Cosmonautica? Buy everything with a blue arrow and sell it to a planet that doesnt have whatever you just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every once in a while I glance through the backlog to see if I picked out a "hidden gem" on a steam sale I forgot about. Also every once in a while I feel a hankerin' for a merchant trader game that can top the now ancient best in class OG that was Sid Meier's Pirates! (and some of its various successors). Unfortunately, Cosmonautica, while scratching the genre itch (but in SPACE), is not the droid I was looking for, and can't be recommended for most for three key reasons even though it has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned, broken mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Right, so the game, on the surface, is a funny, cute, mini Elite where you just tell your crew to do things rather than doing them yourself. The core gameplay loop is pretty satisfying if you like watching numbers go up once you've figured out a trade route. Upgrading the ship is nice, the cosmetics and general graphics look good, and it's pretty fun just in general. Once you've gotten deeper into it, though, is where the problems start. For one, combat is unfulfilling to the max. Since I, at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In all honesty it's a nice little indie effort that I would normally give 3/5 if it were not for a tiny little detail not mentioned by the developers: IT HAS NO SAVES. The game auto-saves on all major events and when you exit the game. This means you get to live with every tiny mistake you make. And since the in-game tutorial and help is nowhere close to explaining how much of the mechanics actually work you'll be doing a lot of mistakes. And whenever a game makes me waste my time uselessly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first impression was good, but the game is very poorly balanced. Easy tasks offer high rewards, while difficult tasks give low rewards and come with too many conditions. You can easily farm money on certain missions, but it quickly becomes boring, and there’s no real incentive to take on complex ones. There are many small, unintuitive UI decisions—for example, the dialogue button used for social interactions. The game also lacks a pause option. During system-to-system travel, you can’t do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice idea, nice style, but this game has no depth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Restarted the campaign five times. Everytime I either spiraled down financially or the crew just left the ship. The game does not have manual saves, which makes the game extremely frustrating to play. If you screw up one major mission, you're done for and there's nothing you can do to save your save. Buying goods to sell them for a higher price costs money. So if you don't have that money you can't make money in return. For some reason battles are not doable in the first hours of the game, so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →VERY BROKEN GAME!!! The game had huge amount of potential. Now the developer is saying they know the game is broken, but they won't fix it. Yeah, it sucks that the bug is believed to be at the engine level, but that's no excuse for saying "ok well we aren't going to develop this any further and just leave it broken." As for the purported "Community" of gamers who believe this is a good game and has no issues, it's not as big as the maker would like you to believe.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to leave a good review for this game. It's so close to being great. It's a lot of fun. Charting courses, completing missions, maintaining your ship and crew— It's very satisfying and will have you feeling like a real space captain. Until... The progression is very slow and it seems like everytime you start doing well, there's some kind of random event that ruins everything and knocks you back down to zero. The game crashes often and has some glitches. It also gets quite…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This could have been a great game too bad the developers grabbed the money and ran. It is actually pretty fun, but I can not support the developers behavior.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've owned this game for years. Played about 20hrs when I bought it and *really* tried to enjoy it, but the combat is difficult and boring. Tried again a few years later to see if the devs changed anything, but it's still the same. A pity as it had some cool graphics and promising character.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[TL;DR: Great concept, poor execution. It has the hallmarks of a great game, quirky style, good humor, nice mechanics, but under the surface it's a woefully unbalanced, frustrating, buggy-crashy mess. I don't recommend buying this one.] I wanted to like Cosmonautica. I wanted to like it so much. This game is exactly my niche: space game with management and tactics, trading, fighting, doing missions, etc. It's all in there in Cosmonautica...but sadly, it's not to be. I played Holy Potatoes:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned before it was finished :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2019 review Its a mobile game, can see where they would of put the "pay to skip" mechanics in the research area if they ever actually finished the development (they didnt). There is nothing here its all barebones, even if you liked other trading you still will be disappointed as the only thing you can actually use the money earned trading is to buy a bigger ship, thats it. You dont effect anything and nothing matters. Trading between systems is not something you want to do much either because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looked interesting and potentially fun but the developers (like many developers) think that the game is cleverly intuitive and super-easy to lean ... well, most developers who think like that turn out to be wrong and that's the case here as well. I can't recommend the game because i couldn't invest the time to figure out how it works. There's no manual or tutorial and the online help is sparse at best. Save your money for games from developers that understand they have to invest in the crappy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is promising and it has a unique graphical charms. Sadly the project was ruthlessly abandoned and play it is pretty much a pointless chore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, as it's a pretty cool take to the intergalactic crew management genre. However, I eventually had to stop playing because it was crashing too much and I didn't see anything to look forward to at the end of the grind. The crew management aspect is fairly rapidly solved to the point where player involvement ceases. Each crew member can be assigned what to do in four quarter shifts. You can assign a crew member to any shift they have skills for, and they will spend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken and abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →changed the resolution and now its broken cant change it back (even with steam commands) + the devs abandoned it, so there goes my money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game a long time ago, probably in a bundle from some place like HumbleBundle. For it sitting in my library for years (essentially a free game at this point for me), it provided a fun few hours of diversion. I did not experience any crashing running the game through Steam's Proton on Linux. As long as you ignore the "main mission" for a few hours and just accumulate money and scientific discoveries for room unlocks, it's a good time. I didn't ignore the main mission and got stuck…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an excellent game. No clue why Chasing Carrots abandon this game, especially when looking at some the other trash they've decided to try and develop. If they would return to this game and clean up some bugs, give it a final direction or end game goal... this game could have made them millions of dollars.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has enough complexity that it feels like it should be engaging, but I felt like I was wasting my life away watching an animated ship fly from point A to point B a hundred times over, taking the same routs to carry the same goods to the same planets until I had enough resources to move onto the next spot, where I would spend 10-15 minutes figuring out the new rout and then repeating the slog once more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its kinda like sims meet space trade taxi pirate hunt (you can also be pirate if u like) game, alot of customization , humor, silly graphics, crew relationships and so on, make money, buy bigger ship, equip and customize that ship, make more money buy even bigger ship, research tech, research star systems, leave your system, visit new one... endless space sandbox fun, promote your crew, fire crew member, hire better one.... and much much more... simple but nice graphics, can run on toaster pc…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe ur a good trader? are you good at orbital destinations? what about not making any money unless you take extra illegal side jobs. I wanted to like this game, star ship captain, Take ppl places. shoot ♥♥♥♥, or haul cargo! the hiring and firing is fun, the candidates are wacky, but some more insight into why they are striking might help, like a lot. I had no idea why any of my pilots were quitting, apparently you have to change their task cycle? i dunno kind of just fluke worked once.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/uYCIa8KBDEU Far too many systems are dropped onto players all at once to properly on board them for success by making it far to easy to end up in a no win situation only minutes after starting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →when i was 12 i thought this game will be fun, but its really boring after 1 hour. oh/10 dont reccomend it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rip-off. Ok, I get it, it's a survival game with perma death. If it's well done it's a good incentive, but this game is just plain frustrating. You'll need money to do anything, but the gain is too low, so it gets very repetitive. If you do agressive missions, you'll have to take to many risks and damage to ship is so expensive to repair that for one failed attack, you'll have to fly 20 trade routes just to get back on track, if there is not some bug/glitch/undocumented feature/inexisting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played early access games with less bugs, stay away from this game. I had to restart the campaign twice because I invested everything in some hauling missions that I never got paid for, on delivery cargo disapeared, got the message of mission complete but no payment.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can be a fun game if you like a space trading crew management game, but as soon as the games combat gets in the way it's terrible. It doesn't really force you into combat, but it happens every now and then and it just ruins any good vibes you may be having playing the game. Learning combat, well I guess look up youtube videos, the game really doesn't want you to know. First combat missions you can get, even the easy ones are drawn out, boring experiences. You have little to no control, strategy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cosmonautica has the potential of being a proverbial example for the tragedy of indy games. A good idea hidden behind a clunky UI lacking sufficient information tools - the baseline of a 1980s game. When I buy an indy title, I do not expect to ride a race horse, but I do ask not to be kicked in the kisser by a donkey.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wouldn't recommend this game because of how annoying it can be to earn cash early on. I assume if you get a really large ship you can transport more goods, people, and mount more guns on it. So it should get easier to earn cash. However, early on they game is a pain in the ass to earn cash. I am constantly loosing more money trying to earn cash by failing to complete a few jobs. Here are some examples of the contracts I took. I took a job to transport some treasure to another station. Got…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This looked like it was going to be a neat game, but unfortunately frequent crashes and the absence of a dev team lead me to say you should probably save your money. While I enjoy the gameplay, almost every scripted encounter I've had (every campaign mission) causes a crash. This is quite annoying, The devs are nowhere to be found, so rather than giving them money go find something else. If you still really want to pick it up, wait till it goes on sale, they don't deserve what you're paying for…
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