Astronaut: The Best

Astronaut: The Best

Universal Happymaker · August 15, 2023 · Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Dark Humor, Choose Your Own Adventure, Resource Management

Buy Astronaut: The Best from Steam at $14.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Positive91% · 3473Metacritic
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$14.99
lowest tracked $5.09
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Astronaut: The Best price by region

Astronaut: The Best costs $8.49 in Georgia (USD), £11.39 in the United Kingdom, €12.49 in Europe (EUR), $14.99 in the United States, CA$17.49 in Canada, NZ$18.49 in New Zealand, A$21.50 in Australia, R$28.99 in Brazil and zł53.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Astronaut: The Best offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $8.49 $8.49 — 1
United Kingdom £11.39 £11.39 — 1
Europe (EUR) €12.49 €12.49 — 1
United Statesyour region $14.99 $14.99 — 1
Canada CA$17.49 CA$17.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$18.49 NZ$18.49 — 1
Australia A$21.50 A$21.50 — 1
Brazil R$28.99 R$28.99 — 1
Poland zł53.99 zł53.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Astronaut: The Best


Navigate procedurally generated episodic storylines.
Face off against ravenous tabloids and magical upper management.
Your arsenal includes training, sycophantic groveling, lying, and witchcraft.
Use them to make history, or end up dead in a ditch.

Five missions. Hundreds of decisions. Thousands of recombinant astronauts. Millions of ways to fail spectacularly.
  • Train Your Astronauts – Recruit procedurally generated characters, strengthen their abilities, and discover their hidden personality traits. Astronauts could be revealed to be serial killers, part-time pirates, or members of the royal family. Your choices have an impact on each recruit and their likelihood of success.
  • Unpredictable Missions – Through a blend of procedural and branching narrative structures, no mission is ever the same. Explore all the possible roguelite results in each replay, filled with character, humor, and twists you’ll never see coming.
  • Charm The Nation, or Else – Prepare your astronauts to perform for the nation on sensationalist TV programs and in the tabloids. Succeed in zany trials to win glory, or fail spectacularly and face deadly consequences.
  • Spacecraft Meets Witchcraft - The nation’s High Priests demand results, and a well-placed spell can mean all the difference. Perform mystic rituals, use supernatural charms to give your astronauts the upper hand, and discover a metaverse-spanning mystery underneath it all.

We greatly appreciate your interest, and strive to deliver something you could not possibly expect but will appreciate all the same. For feedback, discussions, and betting on morality plays, you are cordially invited to join our Discord.

Astronaut: The Best — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 29, 2026
You've heard of 'best game you suck at'; get ready for 'best game that hates you', lol
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Recommended Jul 7, 2025
Easily one of the most underrated games on Steam, with writing that is equal parts creative, funny, and deceptively dark. A little buggy at time and some checks are a little too critical being the only real flaws, but those are mitigated by the shortish time for runs.
Recommended May 11, 2025
A very fun, if very janky little game~ It has such personality and I am sad I never backed it during its initial indiegogo! I would have loved to see how much further this game could have been taken
Recommended Mar 20, 2025
I enjoy the wacky antics the astronauts get up to while trying to tiptoe around doing what the high priests want or don't want. I wish the wheel spins didn't do the weird...it feels like where it stops sometimes doesn't mean what it'll say? But otherwise I like the artwork and the rogueliteness of the game! I also really want to see all the various horrible things that can happen in space!
Recommended Aug 16, 2024
Pleaseeeeee release on Apple Mac. I have been absorbing all content I can since its release (its been over a year now), via youtube let's plays, because I do not have a Windows device... It seems awesome!! Creative and I love the visual novel style + dialogue.
Recommended May 19, 2024
Not bad, but I strongly recommend watching a quick video of someone else playing it first. This one's an oddball, art style, sense of humor, and presentation are not for everyone. I think it's fine, quite a nice taste in moderation because it makes this game nice change from everything else. But I can't blame anyone who finds that it grinds their gears, little things like how the wheel spinning mechanic is presented can potentially get on a person's nerves. I'd also say it's overpriced at regular price, but nearly everyone's going to say that for every game. FWIW I'd wait for a 40% off sale but I think it's a weirdly fun palet cleanser.

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