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Cogs
Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used t
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Honestly an amazing little puzzle game. Great steampunk vibes and fun music. It's very satisfying to move things and solve the puzzle.”
— a player, Steam review · 50 hrs played“Fun game for puzzle enjoyers. First few levels are somewhat easy and fells like you can brute-force them but then it starts to get challenging.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“An interesting puzzle. It's a 3D version of a tile sliding game.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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Latest official news
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Now in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
A few months ago, I ported Cogs from a custom C++ engine I wrote in 2008 to Unity. That's made the game easier to maintain and also opened the doors to make it easier to localize to East-Asian languag
Language support is back!
As I ported Cogs from the old 2009 engine to Unity, it was too much to get all to old localization files working at the same time. I took some time over the last few weeks to completely overhaul the f
v2.0.6, Fixing the "Full Speed Ahead" achievement
For anyone who was having trouble triggering the "Full Speed Ahead" achievement, try again. If it's still not working, don't hesitate to send a bug report to [email protected]
Cogs Remastered!
I recently took some time to port Cogs over to an entirely different code base -- from a custom C++ engine I wrote 16 years ago to C# on Unity. Thanks to a few folks on the forums who have helped me h
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Indie · Casual · Singleplayer · Steampunk · Family Friendly · Difficult · 3D · Logic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://cogsgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
OS *: Microsoft Windows XP or Vista Processor: 1.5 GHz CPU or better Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible 64 MB graphics card with hardware transform and lighting (T&L) DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c or later Hard Drive: 120 MB Free Space Sound: DirectX compatible sound card