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Within the Cosmos

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40%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
44% User Score Based on 41 reviews

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Within the Cosmos is a single player role playing shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by debdev and was released on March 28, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.

Within the Cosmos is a single-player first-person sci-fi RPG. The year is 2278. Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. As a member of the United Earth Space Agency (UESA), you were one of 500 chosen for cryogenic sleep and launched aboard a starship to the secluded Adallio star system. This hidden refuge, far from the devastating war consuming Earth, was humanity's last hope for surviva…

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44%Audience ScoreBased on 41 reviews
atmosphere2 positive mentions
stability14 negative mentions
  • Impressive ambition and scale for a solo developer, with a large and handcrafted sci-fi world full of exploration and RPG elements.
  • Strong foundation with enjoyable RPG mechanics including character customization, skill systems, and player choice leading to multiple endings.
  • Developer actively supports the game with frequent patches and updates, showing commitment to improving and fixing issues.
  • The game suffers from numerous bugs, crashes, and quest-breaking issues that significantly hinder gameplay and immersion.
  • The graphics, voice acting, animations, and sound design are unpolished and sometimes inconsistent, impacting overall presentation.
  • User interface and quality of life features are clunky or incomplete, which, combined with performance issues, reduces playability.

  • story

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    12% positive mentions, 76% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The story offers potential with multiple endings and a decent narrative foundation but is often hampered by numerous quest bugs, broken quest markers, and technical issues that disrupt progression and immersion. Dialogue and voice acting are average, and some players find the story unengaging or repetitive, though efforts from a solo developer are noted. Overall, the story experience is hindered by gameplay and UI glitches that need addressing.

    • “Great story with multiple endings.”
    • “The game is pretty good, performance is good – like The Outer Worlds (story and visuals are nice).”
    • “The story is fine though, most indies would just not put voice acting in it.”
    • “Crashes, none of the quest markers ever seem to work, you can break quests easily, and even complete ones off of conversations with dead people hours after you killed them.”
    • “Doors refusing to open, dialogue events not triggering, and quest objectives not updating properly were common.”
    • “Story - boring and unengaging. Get sent to a mission, go out and do said mission, go talk to quest giver, he gives you the quest again. Ended up shooting him in the head and the quest didn't progress or fail at all.”

  • stability

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent bugs, crashes, quest glitches, and game freezes that hinder progression. Many players report persistent problems with core mechanics, UI, and character customization, indicating the need for substantial polish and bug fixes.

    • “I want to like this game, I really do, but it's just a buggy mess with some pretty poor writing.”
    • “During my time with it, I ran into quest bugs, UI issues, audio glitches, and the kind of wonky physics you'd expect from an early-access project.”
    • “Some shopkeepers lock up the game or don't function, my custom character reset to the default character model of the opposite sex, the quest log randomly freezes the game, I could go on.”

  • gameplay

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The gameplay shows promise with solid RPG mechanics and interesting ideas, but it feels rough and unfinished due to buggy core elements and underdeveloped systems like hacking and persuasion. Many gameplay features lack meaningful impact, leaving the overall experience unpolished and incomplete.

    • “The game is obviously heavily inspired by The Outer Worlds, and it does have some interesting ideas mechanics-wise.”
    • “ The RPG mechanics are solid, and you can really tell the dev put a lot of work and love into this.”
    • “The core concept is compelling, but there’s still a long way to go before the gameplay experience matches the ambition.”
    • “However, even almost a year after release, major gameplay elements still don't work properly.”
    • “Choices don’t seem to carry weight, and many mechanics (like hacking or persuasion) feel more like placeholders than fully functional systems.”
    • “Basic mechanics are buggy and unpolished.”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some praising the visuals and atmosphere as beautiful and comparable to titles like The Outer Worlds, while others criticize the poor performance on mid-to-high-end PCs and inconsistent graphical settings that affect the experience. Overall, the visuals are decent but hampered by technical issues and lack of polish.

    • “In the Reddit post, the developer said he was getting positive feedback on the graphics during his beta-testing.”
    • “The game is pretty good, performance is good - like the Outer Worlds (story, visuals are nice).”
    • “Beautiful visuals & atmosphere.”
    • “Performance is terrible on a mid-to-high performance PC with generic and awful graphics where changing anything doesn't help with FPS.”
    • “Graphical settings don't persist; motion blur and bloom randomly turn on after turning off, FOV defaults back to 90.”
    • “Visuals are like PS3 quality with horrible sound balance.”

  • optimization

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, -25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is generally poor, with performance issues persisting even on mid-to-high-end PCs and powerful GPUs like the 4080 Super. Despite visually appealing environments, players often need to lower settings to medium at 1080p to achieve stable performance.

    • “The game is pretty good, performance is good - like The Outer Worlds (story, visuals are nice).”
    • “I think the environments look really nice but there's a massive lack of optimization in them; seriously, I had to run on medium 1080p so my 4080 Super GPU would stop whining.”
    • “Performance is terrible on a mid-to-high performance PC with generic and poor graphics where changing any settings doesn't help with FPS.”
    • “I think the environments look really nice but there's a massive lack of optimization; I had to run on medium 1080p so my RTX 4080 Super GPU would stop overheating or throttling.”
    • “Performance is terrible on a mid-to-high performance PC with generic and poor graphics where changing any settings doesn't help with FPS.”

  • atmosphere

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is praised for its solid sci-fi elements, complemented by beautiful visuals that enhance the immersive experience.

    • “Solid sci-fi atmosphere”
    • “Beautiful visuals and atmosphere”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding is handled well, making looting rewarding without the usual tediousness commonly found in open-world RPGs' material collection systems.

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization is well-balanced and not overly aggressive, avoiding the feel of a cash grab.

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Play Times

6h Median play time
6h Average play time
6-6h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Within the Cosmos is a role playing shooter game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Within the Cosmos include first-person, indie, trading, exploration, artificial intelligence and others.

Within the Cosmos is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 6 hours playing Within the Cosmos.

Within the Cosmos was released on March 28, 2025.

Within the Cosmos was developed by debdev.

Within the Cosmos has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Within the Cosmos for its atmosphere but disliked it for its story.

Within the Cosmos is a single player game.

Similar games include SpaceBourne 2, Survive the Fall, INSOMNIA: The Ark, P.A.M.E.L.A, The Lantern of the Laughless Saint and others.