Cosmic Miners

Single-player space sim with asteroid mining and modular ship upgrades

bitByte Games · Released Jun 21, 2025 · Early Access

Early Access, no updates for over a year AI-generated content disclosed

Reviews: Mixed; 55% of 64
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 1 year ago; Oct 17, 2025
Minimum PC: RX 5700; 4 GB RAM · 9.8 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Cosmic Miners?

You start as a Harvester miner in an Early Access, open-world space sim. You extract ore from asteroids, fight pirates and rival miners, and dock at stations to trade resources, recruit crew, and refit your ship. Faction missions build your reputation, while the story explores mysteries involving ancient relics and the galactic economy.

For you if...

+you enjoy gathering resources to improve your spaceship

Not for you if...

−you want a space mining game without combat
−you want cooperative play or battles against other players

What players say

55% of 64 reviews are positive

Some players enjoy the mining, while others criticize slow travel and frequent early missions. More recent reviews report broken tutorial steps, unreliable controls, and other bugs, and several reviewers say development is paused or abandoned.

Screenshots and trailer

Cosmic Miners system requirements

Minimum: RX 5700, 4 GB RAM, 9.8 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 10000 MB available space
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: SSD Required for better performance

Does Cosmic Miners have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Cosmic Miners run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 41
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: Turkish, German, Spanish - Spain.

Does Cosmic Miners use AI-generated content?

Yes. The developers disclose AI-generated content on the game's Steam page:

Game contains images of characters, modules, ships, voice of characters generated by AI.

The statement mentions: AI active during playArtVoices

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 28, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam