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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.
Ostranauts is a early access, top-down and cyberpunk game
developed by Blue Bottle Games
and published by Kitfox Games.
Released on August 03rd 2026 is available in English on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 1,886 reviews of which 1,494 were positive and 392 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 20.49€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- 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
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184 hours in, and Ostranauts is one of the most immersive space games I’ve ever played. I’m a big fan of KSP, Space Engineers, Stationeers, and The Expanse. But Ostranauts gives me something none of them quite manage to do: it makes me feel like I’m actually living a life in space. And not the heroic kind. You’re just some poor bastard trying to survive, make money, keep your ship running, and hopefully not blow yourself up because you assembled or started your reactor incorrectly. The simulation is incredible: atmosphere, pressure, temperature, electricity, gases, engines, reactors, character needs, economy, jobs, exploration. And yes, the game is difficult to learn. That’s not a downside — the complexity is a huge part of the immersion. For example, learning how to properly assemble and start a reactor takes only about 20 hours of real life instead of 10 years. Progress! I built my current ship completely from scratch, trying to create the perfect ship for every situation. It only took me about 100 hours. :) But the best part of Ostranauts is the stories it creates. I once accidentally inflated my ship to insane pressure with a turbopump while trying to figure out the airlock. My in-game mother paid for my visa to Venus. And during my first pirate encounter, I was sitting in my underwear desperately trying to patch a hole in my ship when a pirate broke in. I panicked, hit him with a screwdriver… …and accidentally killed him with one hit. That is Ostranauts. My biggest criticism is the graphics. The pixel-art style is dirty and visually cluttered, and sometimes it’s genuinely difficult to understand what you’re looking at or where things are. That’s basically the reason this isn’t a 10/10 for me. But underneath those pixels is a space simulation unlike anything else I’ve played. You can start over and live a completely different life, build a completely different ship, make different mistakes, and come away with completely different stories. If you love KSP, Space Engineers, Stationeers, or you’ve ever watched The Expanse and thought, “I don’t want to be Holden. I want to be some poor bastard desperately trying to keep an old ship from falling apart,” this game is for you. 9/10. Would spend another 20 hours learning how not to explode my reactor.
This is a game where you start off as an exploited worker on a corporate-run space station, barely scraping by with the money you get from salvaging derelict spaceships. But unlike in other games, you don't have to stay there. Instead of selling all that scrap, you can take and build your own ship with it. You can expand your existing ship, add rooms, build a reactor from scrap parts, and in the end you will have a ship that you know is yours. Not your character's, but yours. This games gives you a feeling of ownership and reality like none I have ever played. Every piece of bulkhead, every deckplate, every oxygen sensor, every oxygen pump, every electrical conduit is something you, the player, put there. Nothing is quite as satisfying as walking through the ship that you built, sleeping in the bedroom you made, then taking the ship around the solar system. There are so many moments of organic storytelling here. One time, as I docked with a derelict, a pirate came on board and told me it was now his ship. I armed myself ready to fight, but it seemed like his heart really wasn't in it, and we ended up bantering about sports instead, and then after a few minutes of that, I asked him to leave my ship and he did. He went back onto the derelict and just sort of hung out there for a bit. I ended up feeling sorry for him and hiring him on as a crew member. He proved very useful as he was a hard worker who worked quickly to help me build my ship up, and he had hacking skills too, which came in handy on getting the good stuff out of the PDAs we found on the derelicts we were salvaging. After a few weeks, he quit. We parted companny amicably, and then he walked off my ship and onto the station, where he was immediately tackled by security and arrested. I never said he was smart. The whole solar system is modeled here, distances and travel times are realistic, and even with your powerful torch drive engines driven by your fusion reactor, a trip to the outer planets can take weeks. And it reallys creates a sense of immersion spending that time living on your ship, going through daily meals, wishing you'd installed a few more creature comforts, maybe a TV or an arcade game cabinet, or a more comfortable bed, and it is genuinely cathartic when you finally reach your destination. There are a few gripes, sure. While the Venus colonies are beautiful and have lots of stuff to explore, and your starting base of K-LEG feels suitably gritty, a lot of the rest of the system feels a bit under-developed. The AI can occasionally be stupid, which can be frustrating when you need them to do something for you. A lot of the in-game quests are broken, but none of those are really what the game is about. It's a game about being a spacer, and in that regard the experience is unmatched. —Written by a human being.
1000 Hours: Just getting started. TLDR; if you like slow, vibey, salvage and survival. And you can be patient for the first ten hours. You'll like this a lot. I have been playing this game for over 1000 hours. I love it. The entertainment value of 400 movies. I like to just veg out and salvage wrecks while I watch YouTube. I've done a few of the storylines. The main loop is satisfying enough for me. I've done several characters, learned how to survive well enough that I am not in immediate danger. But mostly I pay off my debt, get a nice ship and start visiting the rest of the solar system. Pros [*] Atmosphere - love the setting and lore, even if I don't remember all of it or need to. [*] Buy a ship or build your own, and build it however you want [*] This is slow space. No instant gratification. Adds to the feel [*] Lots of ways to play - mostly I focus on stripping every wreck for the $$$ parts [*] Devs are very responsive - several things I've reported or experienced have been fixed within a month [*] Vibes, everything feels lived in, real. Cons [*] Bugs: there are frequently minor bugs, but they mostly don't crash or block gameplay anymore. [*] Lag: the game used to slow down a LOT the updates from the last few months have mostly fixed this. [*] Quests: These need some work. It's unclear what to do to progress them sometimes without looking up the wiki or discord. [*] Employees: Hiring people is often more trouble than it is worth. They ignore your orders and try to walk outside without a helmet. [*] AI pathing can be psychotic. [*] Moodlets and social combat? Never clear what to do and why my chars' mood is so poor. Everyone is too horny. This is not an easy game. But after the first ten hours you should be able to survive long enough to not die accidentally. Take it easy when you are travelling. Speed up the game instead of speeding up your ship. If you feel inclined, reporting detailed bug reports helps and will usually be addressed. If you want quick combat and crazy action, this really is not for you.
Ostranauts is a good game but it comes with some very real flaws. 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 addictive. Strip a wreck, haul the parts, patch up what you can, flip it for cash, and repeat. If that core gameplay loop clicks with you, it REALLY clicks. Personally, I had a lot of fun. The issues didn’t bother me enough to ruin the experience. However, many negative reviews focus on the following problems (and they’re not wrong): 1. There is a recurring slowdown bug where the game noticeably lags every now and then; search for "stuttering". It’s especially frustrating on older machines. On top of that, load and save times are inexplicably slow. 2. The UI is horible, sorry to be blunt. Control windows take up two-thirds of the screen for no clear reason. Many actions require excessive clicking. Installing and dismantling or repairing items are buried in separate menus with their own submenus. It feels like a design straight out of the late 1990s. In a game this complex, usability matters. That’s difficult to justify in 2026. 3. The AI is not strong: even simple actions require heavy micromanagement. I hired a crew member to assist with scavenging and ended up firing her because: - She did almost nothing useful. - She somehow got fined for reasons I still don’t understand. - Managing her required more effort than doing the work myself. After firing her, she refused to leave my ship despite repeated orders. I eventually had to dismantle the chair under her just to make her move and offboard (!). That should not be a solution. There are more examples, but the pattern is consistent: crew management currently feels more like babysitting than delegation. 4. On a similar side, character interaction feels sterile and mechanically shallow. The GUI makes it even harder to manage conversations and relationships smoothly. The RPG layer (quests, social systems, etc) is superficial. It works for the first hour or so, but after that I skipped quests entirely. The salvage gameplay loop is far stronger than the narrative systems right now. 5. Ship Planner is outisde the game?!?! The ship planner being external to the game is baffling. It’s clearly still in alpha and not particularly user-friendly. For most in-game purposes, it’s barely helpful. What’s needed is something integrated and intuitive i.e closer to the planning systems in Prison Architect. As it stands, it is completely disconnected from actual gameplay. 6. The economy is poorly balanced: after just a few hours and two or three scrapyard trips, money stops being an issue entirely. I’m currently sitting on 9 million space dollars. There’s no real financial pressure once you understand the salvage loop. For example, I rebuilt a tiny 50k derelict wiht no functional engine into a full-fledged space cruiser with a fusion reactor, seven hydrogen tanks, and enough thrust for 3G acceleration. Final value: 3 million. That progression feels great, but the economic curve flattens far too quickly. The Good News: the developer clearly tapped into something special... The game is actively maintained — 35 patches in the last year alone, including 7 major ones. More content is on the way (though the upcoming space combat patch is raising some eyebrows). There’s variety, depth in the salvage mechanics, and a genuinely compelling systems-driven core. If the developer addresses even a couple of the major issues listed above, this could easily become a game that provides dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of entertainment. Already now, it’s a flawed but very enjoyable experience. That's why it gets my thumbs up.
Start with Project Zomboid. Replace the zombies with a leaky spaceship and poverty. Add some dwarf fortress back-story generation, text based rpg events, and relationships. Then top it off with some Kerbal Space Program for flight controls and you are starting to get an idea of what Ostranauts feels like. I'm hooked
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Ostranauts is currently priced at 20.49€ on Steam.
No, Ostranauts is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 20.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Ostranauts received 1,494 positive votes out of a total of 1,886 achieving a rating of 7.62.
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Ostranauts was developed by Blue Bottle Games and published by Kitfox Games.
Yes, Ostranauts is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Ostranauts is not playable on MacOS.
No, Ostranauts is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Ostranauts is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Ostranauts is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Ostranauts does not support VR.
Ostranauts is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Ostranauts. Explore additional content available for Ostranauts on Steam.
Yes, Ostranauts is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
No, Ostranauts does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Ostranauts is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Blue Bottle Games
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Kitfox Games
Release
03 Aug 2026
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