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Ostranauts
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“[b]Ostranauts is a good game but it comes with some very real flaws.[/b] There’s something deeply satisfying about drifting through a space scrapyard, carefully dismantling derelict ships piece by piece, repairing components, and selling them for profit. The salvage loop is…”
— a player, Steam review · 225 hrs played“To all the fellow masochist and autistics I wholeheartedly recommend this game. 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“Ostranauts is a game where your imagination does a lot of the heavy lifting—and when it works, it’s beautiful. Expanding your flimsy starter craft, managing systems, surviving one small mistake at a time… there’s something here that feels right. It taps into that quiet fantasy…”
— a player, Steam review · 73 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
PASS and Gigs Rebalance, More Improvements to AI and Others
Hey Folks! Update v0.15.1.20 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly. This is a feature update to our "Across the System" milestone, which reworks gig and ferry timing,
Roster Helmet Toggle and Hour Indicator, Autotask Stillness, Tracking Alarm Fix
Hey Folks! Just a quick hotfix here (0.15.1.17) to relieve some issues players noted with helmet removal, among other things. ROSTER UI now includes a toggle for the auto helmet removal behavior. ROST
More Fixes for Crew AI, Docking Fees, and Other Issues
Hey Folks! Update v0.15.1.16 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly. This is a feature update to our "Across the System" milestone, which fixes strange AI behaviors, er
Fix for Random Pausing, Battery Swap Bug
Hey Folks! Just a quick hotfix here (0.15.1.15) to address a couple of issues players noted in our last patch. Namely: Game will no longer pause every time an NPC has trouble sleeping, loses a video g
Crew and NPC AI Improvements, Quality of Life Changes
Hey Folks! Update v0.15.1.14 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly. This is a feature update to our "Across the System" milestone, which includes several AI and other
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Top-Down · Cyberpunk · Open World · Simulation · Open World Survival Craft · Procedural Generation · Space · Sandbox · RPG · Spaceships · Immersive Sim (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://bluebottlegames.com/games/ostranauts |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (or newer) Processor: Dual Core 2 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (AMD or NVIDIA equivalent) Storage: 2 GB available space