Cosmic Cargo

Cosmic Cargo

Wormhole Wizards · October 11, 2025 · Top-Down Shooter, Action, Sandbox, Shooter, 2D

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About Cosmic Cargo

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Embark on a daring journey in 'Cosmic Cargo,' a thrilling space adventure where you're the architect and captain of your own spacecraft. Carry cargo from station to station while fending off enemies and avoiding stellar hazards, using your spoils to upgrade your vessel into a formidable space fortress. Each run promises a thrilling path to becoming the ultimate cosmic courier in a galaxy teeming with risks and rewards!
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  • Modular, tile-based ship building that encourages creativity and requires strategy to ensure survival.
  • Five main levels with three difficulty settings, and an endless mode that lets you test how far your ship can go!
  • Face a wide variety of enemies and environmental hazards. You will face increasing risks - and rewards!
  • More money means a bigger ship with more cargo and even more guns! With each successful delivery earn more for each cargo block your ship carries.
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This game was developed as a student project at DigiPen Institute of Technology and was created for educational purposes only. Please check out our publisher page for more information.

Cosmic Cargo — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

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Cosmic Cargo blends spacecraft building, cargo delivery, and arcade combat into an entertaining free-to-play space adventure that players find engaging, particularly praising the ship customization system and satisfying progression loop. The main criticisms center around the game being relatively easy to break through optimal strategies, lacking difficulty scaling, and experiencing performance issues and crashes when ships become too complex with excessive weapons or cargo.

Recommended Oct 14, 2026
Cosmic Cargo offers an imaginative combination of spacecraft construction, cargo transportation, and arcade-style combat that transforms a straightforward delivery concept into an entertaining science-fiction adventure. Developed by Wormhole Wizards and published by DigiPen Institute of Technology, this free-to-play experience places players in command of a customizable spaceship tasked with transporting valuable goods between space stations. However, completing deliveries is far from effortless, as hostile enemies and dangerous environmental obstacles constantly threaten the journey. What makes the game particularly interesting is how it connects transportation, combat, and shipbuilding into a progression system where every successful mission contributes to creating a stronger and more capable spacecraft. The most appealing aspect of the experience is undoubtedly its modular shipbuilding system. Instead of controlling a fixed spacecraft with predetermined capabilities, players can construct and expand their vessels using individual tiles. This creative approach makes customization an essential part of the gameplay rather than a purely cosmetic feature. Each addition presents an o…
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Recommended Mar 28, 2026
This game is LEGENDARY!!!! I've always loved space games, the building, designing and space battles are very fun. The graphics are awesome and put together very well. I find myself playing this game in class quite often and will continue playing as time goes on. Definitely recommend the game. To all space lovers out there, this is your game! All in all, one of the best space games I've ever played! Love it very much, keep the updates coming.
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Recommended Dec 18, 2025
It is a pretty small and simple game, although a bit easy to beat and break. The combat is not really hard, and i have earned millions easily by just stacking cargo. It can work for some passtime but is not that repeatable.
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Recommended Sep 27, 2026
I played a couple rounds testing the bounds of crafting ships in contrast to the enemy ships, which were easy to overcome with a number of strategies with self-placed restrictions on certain tiles. A couple runs crashed from what must have been an overload from several enemy ships, but even on endless mode with cargo tiles covering the screen it still humbly continued on to acquire $2M. My last play was with no building and only level upgrades, which is more than enough to outmaneuver the obstacles on their own. For someone unaccustomed to games, I can see the controls leading to more difficulty than what was offered on my account; if complex design can just be darted through then it's not really that complex at all, but this complaint could be levied against Dark Souls just as well. From that point you ask if the engagement with the complexity on your terms is rich enough to warrant your investment in it. This game is varied with random engagements of ships under the same toolkit, gigantic mines, or gigantic asteroids. None of them really poses any threat to your growth potential, and this is almost assuredly realized by the 6th wave in the game, the one it marks as the end of no…
Recommended Aug 31, 2026
Cosmic Cargo is a small space action game that takes the idea of being a delivery driver and puts it in a very different setting. I am flying a custom built spacecraft from station to station, carrying cargo while trying not to get destroyed by enemies and space hazards. What I like about the idea is that my ship is not just something I control. I am also building it, so every delivery gives me a reason to think about how I want the next version of my ship to look and function. The ship building is easily my favourite part. I can place different tiles to expand the ship, add more cargo space and fit more weapons onto it. This means I have to think about the balance between making more money from carrying cargo and making sure I have enough firepower and survivability to actually finish the trip. I like that trade off because making the ship bigger is not automatically the right answer. A larger ship can carry more, but it also gives me more to protect when things start going wrong. The combat is fairly straightforward, but it fits the game well. I have to deal with different enemies and environmental hazards while trying to get my cargo safely to its destination. The more success…
Recommended Jan 27, 2026
pretty fun in general and if you wanna waste time can get a little laggy in late game overall 9.5/10 side note: don't use to many guns it'll overload the game and crash, and make sure you have a decent pc so that you don't lag because of the bullets/particles in late game

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