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Cosmic Express

All aboard the Cosmic Express, a delightfully brain-melting game where the puzzles are out of this world! Your job is to lay down the train tracks across a series of tiny space stations. Each alien has a home…

85 16 March 2017

Cosmic Express is an indie developed by Benjamin Davis, released 16 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux.

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What Cosmic Express is

Cosmic Express is an indie game developed by Benjamin Davis and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cosmic Express is a puzzle video game created by Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis and Tyu. The game was released in 2017 for personal computers, mobile devices, and Nintendo Switch.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Cosmic Express holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for SSE2 instruction set support, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Cosmic Express launched on 16 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Cosmic Express yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Cosmic Express — frequently asked questions

When did Cosmic Express come out?
Cosmic Express was released on 16 March 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Cosmic Express?
At minimum, Cosmic Express needs SSE2 instruction set support, 2 GB RAM, 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better graphics, 500 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Cosmic Express?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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