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Cogmind
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
36 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“Let's get it out of the way, yes, it's a bit expensive. The dev did not do this without consideration. If you check out the devblog you'll find plenty of reasoning and evidence for the choice. You'll also see that this…”
“Cogmind is an iceburg that has been intricately carved over years and years of hard work. You can interact with the game on a superficial level at first, then uncover more and more complexity at your own pace. It is…”
7 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“One of the best traditional rogue-likes out there. Don't be mislead by the "Early Access" tag, this game has been complete for years, the developer just keeps putting massive amounts of content for free. For an…”
“Super unique and fun roguelike. Great aesthetic!”
“Not only is it a top rogue-like experience - hard but not unfair (although one can soften the experience with several difficulty options), it also has very comfortable controls when using a mouse (gamepad via steam…”
6 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“Cogmind is an iceburg that has been intricately carved over years and years of hard work. You can interact with the game on a superficial level at first, then uncover more and more complexity at your own pace. It is…”
“beep boop. Very good learning curve and gameplay- not everything is intuitive but the manual is good. If you like Roguelikes is a very good choice for you. Yep. Also runs on anything.”
“Not only is it a top rogue-like experience - hard but not unfair (although one can soften the experience with several difficulty options), it also has very comfortable controls when using a mouse (gamepad via steam…”
5 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“One of the best traditional rogue-likes out there. Don't be mislead by the "Early Access" tag, this game has been complete for years, the developer just keeps putting massive amounts of content for free. For an…”
“Cogmind is a 10/10 awesome but I DO NOT recommend it game if you don't wanna use your head and spend hours upon hours trying to understand the game. Don't be mistaken this game is awesome (Dev is awesome too!) as it has…”
5 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“This is a premature review for what is such a long game to beat in terms of finishing the main story, but to consider a game "complete" when you finish the story is completely antithetical to the spirit of a roguelike.…”
“It took about 30 hours and a several year gap for it to click, but once you scale the initial learning cliff and can start making informed decisions the game opens up immensely and is so much fun. The loadout building…”
7 of the 69 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“The developer plays their own game too much. They are intent on patching out any overly strong builds. Combat is never a viable strategy in this game; once combat begins you need to start looking for the level exit or…”
“I bought Cogmind almost 5 years ago and experienced what others probably had experienced: a game that was a little too complex for me and for which I couldn't begin to parse through it all. I couldn't begin to…”
“It took about 30 hours and a several year gap for it to click, but once you scale the initial learning cliff and can start making informed decisions the game opens up immensely and is so much fun. The loadout building…”
Counted across 69 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 96.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Probably the best roguelike on the market. Easily hundreds of hours worth of content, meticulously polished balance and design, incredibly satisfying to learn and play, what's not to love? I think my brain has become cog-shaped at this point.”
— a player, Steam review · 750 hrs played“played 49.7 hrs in 3 days then won on easy mode (dont shun me i dont play alot of RLs recently) good game but its smart to spread playtime out”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“I really want to like Cogmind, and I've been trying to for years but the first hour or two of a run just don't have much to offer. I know it has some complex branching paths and story, but that intrigue is completely absent in the early game. you have so little choice in…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Beta 17.1 "X0-1V1.1"
Bigger, better, more X0-1V1! That's the general theme here for Beta 17.1, a pit stop of enhancements and expanded content on the way to a much bigger Beta 18. We've seen lots of crazy X0-1V1 runs sinc
Beta 17 "X0-1V1"
Have you played DCSS? (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) If not, then you should definitely consider trying it, a major roguelike in constant development for even longer than Cogmind, and a great game among t
Beta 16.1 "Unchained More"
Ironically for a release dubbed "Unchained More," and one that includes an even wider variety of Unchained personalities and tech, folks are generally going to be seeing them "less" overall xD. This i
Annual Review: Year 12 of the Cogmind
Cogmind's 12th annual review is available over on the dev blog, summarizing a year featuring two major releases that finished off one expansion while kick-starting another. 2025 added a significant ne
Beta 16 "The Unchained"
A new expansion begins! Our Beta 16 eponymous opponents are upon us... With them comes upgraded Scanalyzer functionality for all, and a batch of over 200 more achievements to catch us up with the last
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Traditional Roguelike · Atmospheric · Rogue-like · Turn-Based · Dungeon Crawler · Robots · Strategy · Story Rich · Difficult · Sci-fi · Perma Death (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 474 |
| Official site | http://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: 1.8Ghz or faster Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Anything Storage: 80 MB available space