Fact Sheet

Early Access Release Date: 📆 24 Oct 2022

Platforms:

💻 PC: Steam Early Access

Genre: Simulation, Strategy, Real Time Tactics

Game modes: Single-player, Co Op, Multiplayer PVP

Supported languages: English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Japanese

Developer: Walternate Realities Location: San Francisco, California, USA Publisher: Walternate Realities

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📧 Contacts: General: [email protected]

Business: [email protected]#

About the Developer

Walternate Realities is an independent game studio founded by award-winning game designer and programmer Walt Destler and located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA.

About the Game

Build the ultimate starship, launch into the great unknown and take out enemy forces in starship building sim Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander.

Cosmoteer is FTL: Faster Than Light meets Prison Architect, which sees players create starships, assemble massive crews and explore multiple star systems to smash enemy ships into pieces.

Cosmoteer features extensive ship creation tools that offers vast scope for what players can create. From half a dozen crew members to a thousand or more, each individual has their own set of tasks to complete.

Fully control how the ship is designed and what the floor plan looks like. From where to put the engines and reactors to how many lasers to place, the ship creator is easy to use and offers plenty of complexity.

Dozens of star systems are waiting to be explored in Cosmoteer’s several modes. The title of most famous “Cosmoteer” is up for grabs in the career mode, which can be played solo or with friends.

Throughout their career, players can accept bounty missions to defeat other ships for rewards. Players can also take their ship piloting and design skills to the test in online PvP modes.

Those who aren’t ready to battle other ships can head into the Creative Mode where players can design cool starships with unlimited resources.

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander landed on PC in Early Access on October 24th 2022. Aspiring Cosmoteers can play the game on Steam now. Check out the detailed roadmap here.

Meltdown Update

July 30th 2025 - The long-awaited Meltdown Update is now live, introducing game-changing new mechanics that crank up the heat—literally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7rNHVOkTNM

Meltdown Update adds a whole new layer of engineering and risk-reward gameplay. At its core is a brand-new heat and overclocking system (plus two powerful new weapons!) that lets players push their ships’ systems beyond normal limits—at a cost. Boost your weapons, shields, and generators into Overclock Mode to gain devastating power, but beware: without proper heat management, you’ll overheat, catch fire, or even explode!

This update also introduces new ship parts, weapons, and heat management systems to support this thrilling new mechanic.

Cosmoteer Key Features

• Design awesome starships using intuitive ship creation tools that are easy to learn but hard to master. Fully customize your ship's shape and floor plan, choosing where to place individual modules including weapons, engines, hallways, and crew's quarters. Your ship's design is key to its survival, and every decision you make will impact its performance in battle. Easily share your designs with others through the Steam Workshop, Forums, and Discord.
• A ship's crew is its lifeblood. Numbering from half-a-dozen to a thousand or more individually-simulated people, your crew will pilot your ship, operate its weapons, and carry munitions. How efficiently they operate determines how well your ship will perform in combat. Your crew are autonomous but you can optionally customize their behavior with specific roles and job priorities.
• Command your ship or fleet in real-time tactical battles. Combat is physics-driven, explosive, and immensely satisfying. Each module can be individually targeted and destroyed, and whole ships can even break apart into multiple pieces. Target an enemy's weapons to eliminate its offensive capability, destroy its shields to lower its defenses, or go for the kill by taking out its reactor.
• Become the most famous "Cosmoteer'' in the universe by battling A.I. ships, taking on contracts for factions, earning loot, and upgrading your own ship while exploring a procedurally-generated galaxy, alone or in online co-op with friends. Then test your ship design and command skills online against other players in multiple PvP battle modes. Or let your imagination fly free in the Creative Mode where you can build whatever you want with unlimited resources.
• Expand with Mods. Still want more? A powerful modding framework and Steam Workshop will keep Cosmoteer constantly feeling fresh with new player-created weapons, modules, and other enhancements.

Steam

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander