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IndieRPGSimulationFlightSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvival

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.

Developer
Blue Bottle Games
Publisher
Kitfox Games
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 3, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 9, 2026
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

73.4/ 100

Based on 427 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 62% of 164
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 3,261
“unique and fun experience overall”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.58
Onboarding -1.86
“quests unclear without wiki, need to look up discord for progression” (70)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+0.73
World +3.02
“worldbuilding puts you into the setting, core gameplay mechanics feel proper” (52)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-0.07
Volume +1.51

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+0.70
Visuals -0.38

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.38

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -0.61

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-1.47

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Balance -2.53

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-1.76
Stability -2.65
“constantly encounters bugs that break gameplay, kill characters, ruin story” (71)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
40%60%80%100%
Sep 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 161 reviews, peak 12/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 427 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English86%
  • Russian6%
  • Chinese3%
  • Japanese2%
  • Korean1%
  • German0%
  • Other2%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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