Cosmoteer: Конструктор и командир звездолёта

>Makes a ship that's like a falcon wing
>Ion cannon ship arrives
>Cuts you in half (both halves survive)
>You kill him
>Enemy HE missile boat which was waiting for the fight to be over arrives and wipes you out

Load game from 15min ago and you don't even have the ship.

10/10 save scumming and missile spam simulator. Deeply engaging. I played this game longer than I worked this week.

This scratches many itches at once. I would say that it's FTL with a sprinkle of Factorio, but Cosmoteer is its own unique entity. I'm in the relative early stages and haven't unleashed the full force of my autism just yet, but have been enjoying it more than enough to provide a recommendation at this point.

This game has been so much fun, still playing still hooked. The ship customisation is fantastic, I would say that progression is a bit too quick in that I have opened all blueprints far to fast which now means there is less to look forward too. Even though there is this slight niggle, now I have all the blueprints available I have full access to all of the build options which means I'm having fun building weird and wonderful ship variations to suit specific needs in the game. Defo recommend this game to anyone who likes building and using things, also its a great game if you just like blowing stuff up.

rlly good game but lagy via cpu heavy laggy wise. if youre late game and have all the nececarry recourses to do stuff finally it lags but the quality of the sounds. the bulding the managment system is awesome. you can even have whole fleets whitch tickles my funny bone 10/ peter

This game needs an addiction warning, I can't stopped playing, first time I played I did for 6 hrs straight by accident. If I'm not working or sleeping I'm on this game

Interactive Lego in space. Worth the price even at Early access stage.

The game is like 50% fun. Ship building is fun and immersive, and testing it out is fun. However, playing the campaign is not fun and multiplayer is fairly uninteresting. I feel like an entirely different approach is needed in order to realize the potential of this game.

i love this game would absolutely buy it again if i had to. there are 2 mods that every player should have for career mode. Bigger (and Harder) Systems and any of the bigger systems mod (doesn't really matter) these 2 mods are to extend play time

It's a steep learning curve, be ok with sucking, be willing to learn from defeat, and be willing to try unorthodox ideas. This game has Starsector potential, and the community is awesome!

Every hull I reinforce and cannon I mount, I think of Harambe. He never got the chance to explore the stars, but now I’m designing a ship that’ll do it for him. The crew may think I’m a little too attached, but they don’t understand—it’s for him.

I easily recommend this game despite the fact that I have not played more than a few min of the actual campaign....so the entirety of my 61 hours at this time has been spent building ships and tweaking crew setups and smashing them together like I'm six years old again playing with my action figures. All that's missing are the ridiculous sound FX I would add myself.

Excellent game so far, even in Early Access. I almost didn't give this a try because the graphics made me think of a game that is a bit too low quality, but it turns out this is entirely false.

This game is a straight up improved version of what "The Last Starship" currently is: You've got ship building, exploration, combat, with enough depth in the combat flying and ship building to produce a deep and rewarding experience.

The crew management is quite enjoyable as it's highly automated, but you still have ways to optimize and control it somewhat, striking a perfect balance that gives control without becoming tedious.

I have a few gripes that I will explain, but please bear in mind that they are in no way deal breakers for this game:

If I had any gripes it's that the game seems like it requires quite a bit of grind/farm at some points, and also that it lacks alerts of all kinds for when your own ships take damage. You do get an alert when any enemy is in range of your sensors but nothing else afterwards, which can lead to not noticing when your ships take damage because another enemy was detected by another ship while you were fighting another one.

And even in a single combat, it can be quite easy not to notice how much one of your ships is damaged.

The mining bit is too tedious, with tiny-ass asteroids that need to be micromanaged one by one, and the game "forgetting" their location as soon as they are out view, requiring you to manually mark each of them.

Speaking of which, I'm a bit sad that we can't do much trading. Sell and buy prices are all very stable and very far apart, with a 100% margin that the station makes on the sell price, preventing all kind of hauling for profit.

There's also the issue of losing crew members. It's not made very clear when one of them dies, and they can die pretty easily given that they LOVE to go outside at the worst possible times. I've had it happen when I give a move order while ZERO people are EVA, but by the time the ship starts moving, we are leaving people behind for some reason.

Capturing enemy ships, that is, being tactical with how you dismantle them so that they abandon the ship without explosion, also isn't rewarding enough in my opinion. I understand that for balance purposes it's important that intact enemy modules do not yield their full cost when dissassembled, but I feel like it's nerfed too much.

Furthermore, ennemies take too long to decide to evacuate. When the ship has no more weapons and no ability to steer, it shouldn't still be manned as there's nowhere it can go but in a straight line, for instance. Likewise, when it has weapons but no ability to move, you can just go behind them and kill them... so they should also flee here.

Finally, I'm a bit confused as to what happens to the ejected ennemies. They just.. hang around, it's a bit wierd. Maybe we should be able to capture them or something.

Overall though, the game is a very enjoyable experience, and these minor gripes can absolutely be managed, so don't let this feedback discourage you from buying it!

It is a good game if you're the type that likes building your ship.

But I ain't that type unfortunately. There wasn't really much else to do beyond killing other ships, doing missions and making your ships bigger. I just ain't the type to get bigger and bigger if there's not driving force to do so, excepting getting further into other systems maybe.

I first played this game a few years ago when it was a free off an indie game store page. It's awesome to see how content was added since then.

Anyways, this game has pretty much infinite content and there's loads of weapons and configurations you play around with.
For what it is, it runs well on laptops or lower-end PCs which is one of the main reasons why I got it: There's another ship building game I play called From The Depths which is MUCH more complicated and computationally intensive (so my laptop can't it run it very well). Cosmoteer, on the hand, being 2D and much simpler runs very smooth even at larger ship sizes.
However even though the game is simpler than From The Depths, there is still loads of creative ways to optimize your ship and its subsystems.
Overall great game

This is a great game, ticks all my boxes, the intuitive UI and help tabs made this very easy to get on with from the start.

It's very satisfying winning a conflict then picking through the corpse of your enemy and liberating the spoils for repairs & sale.

For Early Access the game is in good shape, I experienced no bugs & multiplayer co-op works flawlessly, once you figure out how to set it up, you can even save the progress & come back to the session another time with your buddies.

Once crew progression is added, keeping them alive would be important & give them each real value.

All in all a very fun & addictive space simulation that's actually not too complex to play

Theory is neat, but the game really isnt too much fun.

Building ships is all it has going for it, but the ships lack any depth-- no switching more power to engines, etc.

Basically, you click on a ship, another ship clicks on you, and you shoot eachother till someone dies. You can drift at certain angles while you mindlessly shoot, then you do it again.

There is no story, immersive characters, or really anything that interesting to do. I'd really listen to some of the negative reviews.

Good idea, needs like an entire overhaul to be actually good.

This game is fun with friends for sure, yes its frustrating, yes it has a huge learning curve, but once you get past all that, it can be a lot of fun and for someone such as myself who loves designing wacky things, this game has boundless possibilities. Ten hours in and yeah I'm looking forward to more hours in. ahhh yes piece of advice save save save.

So much content already, so easy and fast to progress and discover. I would have been surprised, even had my expectations been higher. Except a few small details it is always very intuitive, easy to get into and keep track of. Insanely high quality of life all around.

The game creates a very ambient atmosphere. Star Wars, Star Trek, Elite and Privateer are being addressed by music, icons or logic. SciFi fans feel right at home. Yet, it is a new game. The gameplay runs flawless and the starship's physics are great. Although it is an open world game with various solar systems, the week point is its monotony. All tasks like bounty hunting and sweeping pirate bases only differ in the level of difficulty but basically repeat over and over. However, you can control time and this gives you plenty of exactly the same to build a dream ship or even a whole fleet. Great stuff.

im not supper far into the advanced game but iv unlocked everything and tested almost all wepon systems and build a dozen ships. and over all i think for a simple 2d spaceship game its supper fun i think theres room for ballance tweaks and some new wepons and mods. but it is early access still and it already feels more like a finished game them most games.
pros
1. combadt is super fun and the way things blow up is satisfying
2. lots of detail in the crew
3. even minning is a bit of a challange to make a solid indy ship
4. can play multiplayer

cons
1. mishions and systems are largly the same
2.manual ship control mostly wepon controll is cluncky
3. not enof turreted wepons or top/bottom mounted thrusters to add a lil more 3d feel /free up space on the ships edges

a few sugestions
1. more deck mounted wepons and thrusters top and bottom of ship
2. ass targeting lines for all wepons so you can see werethey are faceing then fire that wepon group sepratly
3. maby i missed it but a stop fireing botton for diff wepon systems or groups
4. target priorty for point defence. like focus on emp or nukes
5. missels need to be a lil faster
6. chain guns need a mag passthrou that only proovides 1 ammo but alllows crew to cross the chain also faster ramp up time and more options fot the direction of the chain as it comes off the gun "there very fun wepons but far to limmeted in how they can be used and akward to fit on any ship
7. mining the rings of plannets
8. random spawns of small enemys/ astroids as systems become a lil to dead
9. building your own station that can be used as a trade hub perhaps station spesific mods

again theres still some things if not messed with yet so i could me missing things.

TLDR: yes for ship building, no for actual game

For game that was in development since 2011 there is really no depth or breadth of game mechanics
There is somewhat impressive ship builder with, again, lack of real progression except going bigger and bigger and bigger (limited by your cpu)
Career can be fun when puzzling how to beat bases, but difficulty spikes are wild in the beginning.
Fame certainly pushes you to take on enemies when you are in no way ready to fight them, as they have insane and nasty combos of weapons, shields/disruptors and intricate defense patterns. Even on same tier there might be insanely pathetic enemies and enemies who can kick your ass and chew ship-load of bubblegum
Economy in game is clearly work in progress, but there is no way to be pure trader/supplier as of yet, and trying to be supplier (aka refining materials and selling them for more price) is very expensive
Also first load of game is weirdly long, why is it even required?

I recommend this currently for the early and mid-game, which are very well done and only getting better.

Late game nuke spam has absolutely wrecked my interest in continuing, however. Video game designers will even put a dodge-meta into their lego spaceships game, it really beggars belief at this point.

Cosmoteer is like life

Simple concept done well, you build ships out of parts you get from salvaging other ships, and slowly gain fame to let you hire more crew. There is enough diversity of parts ect to keep it interesting, but mechanics can be a tiny bit "rock paper scissors" style hard counter (like sheilds being near invulnerable to certain damage types, but turned off by one hit of other kinds) and so you get wrecked in seconds if you pick to hard of a fight on the map. Advanced ship controls can be a little slow to learn but are powerful enough once you do.

very fun and has a massive variety of ships and stuff to build

It's really good for an early access game. The combat and ship building is super fun. Now it just needs some depth to the game. Like building a base up or something like that. The missions could use a little love to, The progression can get a little boring. But overall the game is a solid 8/10 even without these things. I do know it's in early access though, so I am confident that this game will get AWESOME with continued updates.

game seems quite rough, the AI is terrible, set a course to mine asteroid and you want to go around the asteroid, your ship hits it and ends up in a spin for a very long time while attached to the asteroid. ship design is good ( for those that can do it) but in my case, overly complicated, and when it comes down to buying ships i could not find details of what was in the ship, assets, weapons, storage, etc.
lack of controller support is also a negative in my book, the piloting via AI is terrible, and piloting manually is cumbersome at best.
This could very well end up being a really good game, it has tremendous potential, but for me, it just is not there yet. I will check back on this game, and adjust my review when things improve. This really feels like a rough gem, just needs polishing and it will be great.

too many UI issues atm, kinda fun but the career mode needs alot of ui changes. unless you follow certain builds then its not really a do your own kinda build. you are forced into a specific play style. Hands down though the UI is horrible. cant say how many times things just change on the ship. accidental clicks means your whole ship is toast. dont even get me started on the "undo" button which only works for things that dont need it. invested a good bit of time playing only to have said issue happen and lose the ship i had during repairs. so even a mis click in the build with an undo button isnt really a thing. why cant developers just make the game they say? It cant be that hard to truly make a simple thing like undo... MS paint figured it out. doesnt matter what you do, click undo and thats what it does. but yeah, another waste of money.

game might be worth while to people that dont mind cheating or being forced into a specific playstyle. To be clear by cheating i mean turning on unlimited money and no dmg.

over all, not worth any time in the game and whis i could still get a refund.

I like the arranging the deck plans, figuring out what works for your crew as well as the functionality of the vessel. I'm not sure how I'm doing, I seem to have no trouble with some difficulty ratings while others wipe me out every time. But I'm making different ships with different capabilities. Mostly I need something with extreme range, so I can pound the heck out of the bad buys while they can't reach me. Maybe I'll try building a railgun sniper-ship. I'll just leave it parked when I'm not using it.

If sent on a multi-year mission to another planet, this game would be my first choice to bring along.

Delightful, challenging, and endlessly fun to spend time with. The multiplayer is exquisite.

This game (especially the career mode) has perfected a balance of giving the player dozens of new features to be creative with while still moving slow enough that the game isn't overwhelming. Highly recommend this game.

Very entertaining has a lot of great mechanics and is simple to learn but hard to master

Prison architect but in Space.
7/10 with room to reach 9/10.
Deff worth the price tag.

Had 95% the same idea 12 years ago at the Uni (games dev course), rest of classmates thought it was boring and bad... well :)

Its a fun game where you develop your own ship schematics trying to refine the efficiency of the ship to get the best bang for its buck. you then use that ship to complete missions like bounties coups and piracy if you want. you can also control multiple ships and fleet manage them

Fun game, but it is missing a story.
Later in the game I experienced frame drops and my computer struggled to keep up. At some point the 8x speed (time control) seemed too slow for the huge projects that I was assigning my scavenger ships after a huge battle.

9.8/10 -Would play more if frames held together better and if there was a 16x speed (time) option

I like it. Interested in more steam deck games... Cant play good games on the steam deck... But this game was difficult to get started... High learning curve. Keep in mind there is no perfect build.

Really nice to play. The gameplay really engages you to try many combinations of ship architecture to optimize how your ship works best.

very good last i played, game was getting bigger and more complex so my low grade laptop could no longer handle it well. new pc is built so im back for round 2. would recommend for 2d space games.

Really good, complex but intuitive. Great art style and graphics. Only thing preventing me from sinking 1000 hours into it is lack of meaningful content.

the comunaty is very nice and helpful, the game is very fun, there are a lot of things you can do. it may be unfinished, but it is a good game

Played the demo and loved the game, so bought it, really looking forward to the roadmap features, if you are unsure on the game download the demo.

The game has potential and is fun, but best to wait on buying it for now.

The bad -
You often have to fight the controls to get what you want. Pathfinding is atrocious. Ship AI can't navigate around a stationary object. Formation move is literally worse than 2010 RTS games. Limited sound tracks. Can't rotate parts 45 degrees. Shipbuilding assist tools (e.g. doors) are sub optimal and buggy. Quests are exclusively kill, fetch or trade. Parts can get bugged at 99% complete and only deconstructing and reconstructing manually fixes the issue. Loading times are long.

The good -
Lots of room for creativity in ship design. A decent catalogue of parts to play around with. Nice progression from small scale to large scale ships. Aesthetics of the game are good. Many well crafted NPC ship designs.

Conclusion -
Not worth the price tag yet. An average game due to it's problems and incompleteness. It feels like the devs spent more time creating ship designs (which are very good) than optimising the code. Until it is a complete game I would hold off buying this unless it's discounted.

Game version 0.27.2

A great game so far, the foundations are solid and the gameplay loop truly sucks you in, I can't wait to see what it'll be like when the other features on the roadmap are added

The gameplay and mechanics work well in this game and after a good bit of time i've seen everything and also played with the mods. I feel like this game needs more end game content obviously more ship pieces to play around with and it for sure needs more challenging AI that takes their ship into account instead of just ramming into you and attacking that way, also add some battering ram ships and make it an actual mechanic to ram into an enemy would be nice.

The good thing about it is that you can build your space ship and there is not really a limit, however not many options either about what to build but enough to experiment. The major con about this game is the lack of a story, or something to keep you going. After you get the hang of how to properly build your ship so you don't die in the first battle, or adding another ship to aid you in battle, all battles are the same and there is no feeling of going forward anymore. It becomes a grind. Major possibilites, but not implemented.

Definitely a good game! And the new and upcoming features in the roadmap are gonna turn this game from good to downright amazing! Definitely recommend!

This game I have followed for a long time now, not played lots, but enjoyed every moment of it. Even the moments when I crash and die and need to start over. It has an amazing Road map and I cant wait to see the game finished.

BUT even in the state its in now the game is lots of fun, tons of content to explore and play around with, and a really great game to play with friends and mess around, building awesome ships and space stations, fighting pirates or factions, or mining and producing better stuff to sell and construct more ships!

Quality of Life changes have improved the overall game in so many ways. Overall content is great! :)

This has quickly become my favorite game! A beautiful hidden gem! Build, mine, explore and fight your way through a whole bunch of star systems. There's so much to it that I can't put it all into words. One drawback to the game though, is the collision mechanics are buggy as well as a fleet of ships moving into formation is also pretty buggy. Almost like they don't understand going around stationary objects. However, while those are annoying as heck, they are small things and I highly recommend game to sci-fi fans and those who like to build and design your own space ship...or your own space armada!