Cosmo Riders

Cosmo Riders

Conversion7 · March 24, 2025 · 2D, Top-Down, Action Roguelike, Top-Down Shooter, Twin Stick Shooter

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About Cosmo Riders

The time has come for a new era of space exploration. We can detect and use warp portals to travel to other galaxies. But it allowed other space dwellers to detect us...

...and not all contacts are going to be peaceful. Especially, if you are a member of Cosmo Riders guild who pays bounty for capturing outposts and disassembling ships.

Advance


Travel through galaxies and solar systems during Expedition where each stage may have different conditions and events(from destructible asteroids to flying comets).

Research


Research new weapons, modules and modifications between Expeditions.

Improve


Upgrade Ship during Expedition: install researched weapons, modules, modifications. Change basic aspects (attributes).

Deal


Complete Contracts to unlock new Research Tiers.

Conquer


Defeat enemy waves, extract cargo and components and jump into warp-portal to next stage. Enemies may also use different weapons and modules, but they can be shot-off during fight (node-based destruction).

FAQ

  • Run duration: one expedition takes near 1 hour, with ~20 minutes per each phase. Also progress is saved each ~1-3 minutes, the expedition can be postponed almost any time.  
  • Total playtime: 18 Galaxies with unique conditions and 6 difficulties (configured per galaxy). It will take at least 20 hours to beat all galaxies at one difficulty level. All progress can be reset after completing all galaxies (statistics is kept).  
  • Meta-progression / Boosters: researched items appear during run(Expedition). Researched items can be crafted before Expedition start. Permanent bonus Attribute point is obtained after completing Galaxy. 
  • Ship builds (gameplay styles): 3 archetypes can be defined for now: ranger-with-focus-on-weapons, ranger-with-focus-on-modules and melee-hyper-boost-rammer. And ship modification system is flexible enough to combine different styles.
  • Randomness: it is possible to predefine ~50% of build before Expedition starts. Other 50% are choices done during Expedition.

Cosmo Riders — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Cosmo Rider is a roguelite arcade game with clever design and surprising strategic depth that keeps players engaged through varied level types and randomized conditions, though it struggles with clarity and accessibility issues. Players praise the addictive gameplay loop, great soundtrack, and satisfying progression system with ship upgrades and modifiers, but criticize the lack of tutorial, missing UI information like health displays, and confusing mechanics that aren't explained upfront. Some players also report physical discomfort from the camera movement and distortion effects.

Recommended Jan 19, 2024
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Not recommended Sep 16, 2023
This game has potential but there are various aspects that need to be addressed before I would recommend buying it. 4/10 (I will change this review in the future pending game development.) 1. It is sooooo rough at this stage 2. Any type of information on your ship such as health... Kind of important 3. Some type of upgrade system for your ship in between rounds 4. A reason for getting those little shiny things when you kill a baddy, what are those for? 5. Instructions.... That being said and at this stage in development, the game is fun, has a great feel, and I hope to play it more in the future. To the Dev team, please keep working on this, you have something that could be great.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 30, 2025
Fun! Having put a ton of hours into this, got 100% achievements and top of the hiscore table I figured it was time to update my review - which was already a good review but ngl I got sooo hooked on this thing! The game design, though a little opaque at first, is super clever. There's surprising depth and lots of that good feeling roguelite strategizing during your game. A playthrough runs for 3 "solar systems" and takes maybe an hour. Levels come in many different types: arenas, defend-the-base, gravity+caves race, lots more but also each has a set of randomized conditions like say collisions hit harder, or there are elite enemies hunting you, or falling meteors. There's some very cool and strange conditions and you can pick a system that suits you and even have some ways to tweak the conditions to cancel out some, at a cost. All this keeps it feeling fresh and new level after level as there's so many combinations. Fundamentally, it's gravity/physics-based twin-stick (plays just as well on controller or mouse+keys), with autofiring weapons and buttons to trigger various upgrade slots. Can get really hectic on later levels / higher difficulties but it's never one of those pin-po…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 17, 2025
Гра дуже цікава та втягує з перших хвилин. Велика кількість різноманітних модулів на корабель та багатоетапність "прокачки", в доповненні з регулярним оновленням роблять гру дуже варіативною. Так що можна багато разів перепроходити і не набридне. Приємною дрібницею є драйвові саундтреки, під які покорювати космос одне задоволення.Чекаю всіх цінителей цікавих аркад!
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 7, 2025
Initial impression is extremely bad because the way the camera and view move and distort makes me physically uncomfortable while playing.
Recommended Mar 25, 2025
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