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Space, strategy, sandbox and building nerds, have you seen Cosmoteer yet? It’s a starship designer simulator that puts you, or you and some friends, in a large universe to command an ever-growing custom-built fleet against various AI or player opponents.
It’s a great loop, one where you defeat enemies, complete contract missions and go mining to get resources, then use that loot to upgrade your ship so you can take on increasingly difficult tasks. You can do all that with friends in co-op. You can also test your ship designs against players in PvP, and make wild ideas work before you invest in them with the creative mode.
It’s a pretty solid game for Early Access, probably because it’s one of those cult classics that’s been in development for a decade and was previously only available through the developer’s website. That developer is an indie outfit Walternate Realities, by the way, and the guy who runs it is Walter, and I’d like to congratulate him on a great word name.
In the Early Access future Cosmoteer intends to add carrier ships with drones and fighters, boarding enemy ships, hinged joints to transform ships, as well as various new weapons and ship modules. It will also add new mission types for the single-player and co-op mode, and additional modes for multiplayer PvP.
Cosmoteer is a bit easier to follow than some more complex 2D space building type games, which is nice for that co-op angle. However, when you get into the weeds of design, you can do some good things. Giant mid-century sci-fi spinner weapons are available for ships, requiring you to build the whole thing around one giant gun. There are also details like ships so large that they have their own ammunition factories on board, so you can collect resources and refine them in shot mid-mission.
For me, Cosmoteer is one of those titles that by all the logic of small game development shouldn’t have a functional multiplayer element, considering the modular destruction and customization and a thousand other ways it could desync and break. But it does, in both cooperative and player versus player flavors, and that’s certainly part of the charm.
You can find Cosmoteer on Steam (opens in a new tab) for $20, where it currently enjoys a somewhat shocking 96% positive from 1,113 reviews.
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