Cosmic Ray

Cosmic Ray

Cosmocat · 2018 · Flight, Top-Down Shooter, Twin Stick Shooter, Casual, Exploration

PC
6 user reviews67% · 6
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About Cosmic Ray

The Earth's sun is about to die. Scientists predict we have, at most, 5 days remaining. The world as we know it is about to end...

Cosmic Ray to the rescue! His mission:
  • Explore distant solar systems
  • Colonize inhabitable planets, terraform inhospitable ones
  • Search planets for resources such as upgrade blueprints and alien artifacts
  • Collect ship parts to buy upgrades
  • Thwart alien attacks while avoiding the perils of space

Casual gameplay and short rounds make Cosmic Ray a great option for killing a few minutes.

Soundtrack


Cosmic Ray features a lush, ambient soundtrack featuring music by Snug, JFS and Ogotu. Guaranteed to calm a crying baby in mere seconds.

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jul 16, 2025
8 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 13, 2021
Hard to explain, but I enjoy the game. The core conceit is that it takes five minutes to play, unless you die earlier. This makes it a rather niche game I suspect, but it works for me. The core concept is that you are humanities last hope, and trying to terraform planets to save the human race. The game mechanics are very simply, you fly around looking for solar systems, which oddly enough consists of a bunch planets in he same orbit around a star, and look for planets worth using your limited supply of terraforming gas on. The information you get is limited, the population potential, and the percentage change of success. Completing the terraforming consists solely of holding down the left mouse button, nothing more. While on the planet however, it is worthwhile zipping around exploring it, as you can find repair nodules (red dots) and schematics for upgrades (boxes with question marks on them) or alient artifacts. There are times when you will drop down on to a planet you don't want to terraform to grab these, that is cool. The upgrades so far include better weapons, a speed boost, and faster terraforming. You need parts, little bolts dropped by one kind of enemy ship, to ins…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 16, 2020
Boring. Arcadish. Repetitive. Didn't like it at all.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 12, 2020
D A M N I T_Toke me 3 hours to finish travelling outer space
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 31, 2025
Игра 'Cosmic Ray' приятно удивила своей динамикой и простым, но захватывающим геймплеем. Летая на космическом корабле и уклоняясь от астероидов, чувствуешь настоящий прилив адреналина. Простое управление делает игру доступной для новичков, но сложность постепенно нарастает, заставляя оттачивать мастерство и разрабатывать собственную тактику. Визуальный стиль в ретро-стиле добавляет шарма, возвращая в эпоху аркадных автоматов. Музыкальное сопровождение отлично дополняет атмосферу космических приключений, не отвлекая от самого процесса. Несмотря на кажущуюся простоту, 'Cosmic Ray' обладает высокой реиграбельностью. Стремление побить собственный рекорд и забраться на вершину таблицы лидеров мотивирует проводить в игре часы напролет. Рекомендую всем любителям быстрых и динамичных аркад, которые ищут что-то простое, но увлекательное.
Not recommended Oct 22, 2025
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