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Cosmic Miners

by bitByte Games

2025
71% positive
48
$6.49
Steam

About This Game

Embark on a thrilling space adventure in Cosmic Miners, a single-player sci-fi game that blends mining, exploration, and strategic upgrades into a rich galactic experience. Take on the role of a daring miner of Harvesters, navigating asteroid belts and planetary orbits to extract valuable resources, build your fleet, and rise to prominence in a universe full of opportunity and danger.

Traverse diverse asteroid fields, each brimming with rare ores and challenges. With upgradable ship modules, adapt your mining systems to extract resources efficiently. Upgrade to advanced tiers to access high-value materials locked behind tougher asteroids.

Pirates, Drifters, Harvesters, Capitalists, Technocrats, Leviathans, and Proxies.

Each faction offers exclusive missions, rewards, and opportunities to shape your reputation and future in the galaxy. Will you stay loyal to your starting faction, the resourceful Harvesters, or climb the ranks to join the enigmatic Leviathans or join Pirates to cause the chaos?

Dock at vibrant stations to supply resources, upgrade your ship, recruit crew members, and interact with leaders and community. Each station is a hub of activity, offering its own role in the galactic economy and its secrets.

Upgrade your ship with over 20 modular systems, from mining lasers and cargo holds to shields and weaponry. Hire and manage up to five specialized crew members, each contributing unique skills to improve your mining, combat, and trading capabilities.
Defend your ship against ruthless pirate factions and rival miners. Engage in tactical space combat, where the right upgrades and strategic decisions can mean the difference between profit and peril.

Unearth a gripping narrative as you progress, filled with mysteries about the galaxy’s factions, ancient relics, and the forces that drive the interstellar economy. Engage in main story missions and uncover hidden lore scattered across the stars.

The galaxy is yours to explore, exploit, and conquer. Build your fortune, enhance your fleet, and earn a reputation that will echo across the stars. In Cosmic Miners, your choices shape your legacy. Will you be a ruthless capitalist, a daring explorer, or the galaxy's most feared miner?



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Game Details

Release Date: 6/21/2025
Developer: bitByte Games
Publisher: bitByte Games
Price: $6.49

Platform Support

Windows

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