Cozy Space Survivors

Released: May 3, 2024
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 09:50 GMT

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03 May 2025Developer post
🎁My game turned 1 year old!🎁 Here is how it went.
h1]Post Mortem I wrote a small article with many details about how my game turned out in regard to money, wishlists, refunds, etc.: TL;DR For those who don't want to read my full post but just need some quick numbers: Made $3741 in 1st month, $14604 in 1 year From that, I can kee
h1]Post Mortem
I wrote a small article with many details about how my game turned out in regard to money, wishlists, refunds, etc.: https://simonschreibt.de/gat/cozy-space-survivors/#update2
TL;DR
For those who don't want to read my full post but just need some quick numbers:

Made $3741 in 1st month, $14604 in 1 year
From that, I can keep ~40%
3.9% refund rate
BulletHeaven2-Fest & Dex (Influencer) got me the biggest sales spikes post-release
Thank you very much for your support, buying my game and writing so many lovely reviews!
Simon 💘
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12 Aug 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.6: Loca Update
I little update for the language files of the game. :)
08 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.5: Bugfixes, Tweaks
Thinky Radial Menu now disabled the buttons for shop time/weapon if the shops are not unlocked yet Bugfix: mining laser impact fx was visible for too long (when using the pass through upgrade) Loca tweaks
Thinky Radial Menu now disabled the buttons for shop time/weapon if the shops are not unlocked yet
Bugfix: mining laser impact fx was visible for too long (when using the pass through upgrade)
Loca tweaks
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07 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.4: Guidance to Shop, Bugfix
added guidance marker to shops bugfix: wormy won did not unlock thinky
added guidance marker to shops
bugfix: wormy won did not unlock thinky
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07 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.3: Fixed Mouse Controls
Bugfix: mouse controls restored (was broken since 1.5) - thx for the report brotherhoodmonk & Heilsbringer! loca tweaks
Bugfix: mouse controls restored (was broken since 1.5) - thx for the report brotherhoodmonk & Heilsbringer!
loca tweaks
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07 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.2: Bugfixes & Performance Tweaks
Optimized resource collection (e.g. XP) for "Thinky" which is especially important when A TON of XP is lying around Simplified code for target-detection when having the “pass through”-upgrade Bugfix: "Thinky"-Ship did not have light cone when flying into the dark region
Optimized resource collection (e.g. XP) for "Thinky" which is especially important when A TON of XP is lying around
Simplified code for target-detection when having the “pass through”-upgrade
Bugfix: "Thinky"-Ship did not have light cone when flying into the dark region
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04 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5.1: Bugfixes, Loca
bugfix: new ship 5 wasn't unlocked when already having the game won with ship 4 bugfix: avoid assert when mining laser impacts pool is empty bugfix: null-objects in pool had an array assigned as their parent when re-freshly added to the pool loca updates
bugfix: new ship 5 wasn't unlocked when already having the game won with ship 4
bugfix: avoid assert when mining laser impacts pool is empty
bugfix: null-objects in pool had an array assigned as their parent when re-freshly added to the pool
loca updates
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03 Jul 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.5: New "AI" Shipy
This will be most likely my last content update. If there are bugs, I will try to fix them and there might be smaller patches to update the localization. But apart from that, I need to take care of other projects and this one took all my spare-time for the last 11 months. New Shi
This will be most likely my last content update. If there are bugs, I will try to fix them and there might be smaller patches to update the localization. But apart from that, I need to take care of other projects and this one took all my spare-time for the last 11 months.
New Shipy
I added an "AI"-Shipy which you can NOT control directly! There is a little menu opening up when you press a key/button or move the mouse, and with that you can tell the ship where to go. It knows the positions of all quests and crates. But be careful! The ship might appear intelligent, but it will fly straight away to its target: if there is an asteroid in its way, it will crash into it!
Bugfixes

Water Alien Enemies (Tier 2) did not respawn after a while
Enemy Laser Projectiles were not be destroyed by shooting at them
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24 Jun 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.4.1: Performance Improvements
Performance got improved mainly by now “collapsing” 10 little XP-Hearts into 1 bigger version to have fewer objects on the screen. More details in this video:
23 Jun 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.4: Shopkeeper, Mine-Tweaks, Catalan
Weapon/Time Shopkeeper You can now unlock two NPCs who sell weapons/time (via upgrade in the chocolate store)! You can trade 256 chocolate for a random weapon or 1 minute more time. If you buy time: More enemies will appear during the “overtime”-period! Also, the list in the end
Weapon/Time Shopkeeper
You can now unlock two NPCs who sell weapons/time (via upgrade in the chocolate store)!

You can trade 256 chocolate for a random weapon or 1 minute more time.
If you buy time: More enemies will appear during the “overtime”-period! Also, the list in the end screen now shows your longest session time record.
The shopkeepers will appear close to your start location.
You can buy weapons/time as long as you have enough chocolate.
This feature gives chocolate a meaning even after unlocking everything in the chocolate store. It's my answer to those people who wished for sessions longer than the 10 minutes.
Weapon Tweaks
I did several changes to the mines to make them more different from missiles and the rainbow of love. Because they were ejected into random directions, auto-piloted pretty fast toward an enemy and also did splash damage even when they did not hit anything (timeout) they felt too similar to missiles (because of their movement) and even the nova (because of all the splash damage). Therefore, I made these changes:

Mines are ejected toward the back of the ship (instead of random directions)
Mines don't do splash damage when they time out but only when they hit something
Mines do more damage (Mine 1.0: 15->30; Mine 2.0: 30->40)
Mines have a splash damage radius doubled (50.0->100.0)
So now, mines have their own unique behavior and WHEN they hit, they hit stronger and in a bigger radius!
UI
You can now see the total chocolate and also the chocolate collected during this session in the UI.
Localization
Catalan is now available thanks to Projecte 'Ce Trencada'!
Performance
I spend a lot of time to keep high FPS, even during the overtime period (where more enemies appear). I hope everything runs smoothly on your machine!
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02 Jun 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.3: Gallery, Quest Overview & Guidance, Balancing, Portuguese (Portugal)
Gallery The main menu offers now a little gallery with some “behind the scenes” images and videos. A new little NPC called "Strueppi" tells you about the gallery as well. Quest Overview You can now see which quests are already solved (or still open) in the menus for shippy select
Gallery
The main menu offers now a little gallery with some “behind the scenes” images and videos. A new little NPC called "Strueppi" tells you about the gallery as well.
Quest Overview
You can now see which quests are already solved (or still open) in the menus for shippy selection and pause.
Quest Guidance
The little orange quest guidance dots now disappear as soon as a quest is solved. This helps by figuring out where to go to complete the remaining quests.
Localization
Portuguese (Portugal) was added thanks to Álvaro Veiros.
Balancing
To make the non-laser weapons more attractive, I changed the balancing a bit:

Hula-Hoop: Bigger radius, More damage, higher rotation speed
Mine 1.0: Bigger splash damage radius, less damage (to distinguish it better from Mine 2.0)
Mine 2.0: Bigger splash damage radius, slower (to distinguish it better from missiles)
Missiles: Bigger splash damage radius
Boomerang: Now spawns 2 bananas per second instead of 0.5
New Achievement
There is now a new achievement for “finished ALL quests with ALL shippies”.
Bugfixes

Mines around the wild planet have not been removed at the game start when the quest was already solved in a previous round.
Impact effect when a portal dog shot was not correctly placed (was always added to the player even thought they hit e.g., an asteroid).
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21 May 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.2.1: Tweaks in Japanese Translation & Boss Explosion
Tweaks in Japanese Translation Utah-Teapot Explosion was too short (1s) and therefore suddenly disappeared
Tweaks in Japanese Translation
Utah-Teapot Explosion was too short (1s) and therefore suddenly disappeared
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20 May 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.2 - Progress-Sun, Turkish, Japanese, Balancing, Bugfixes
Hello lovely people! Patchy 1.2 is here! ⭐New Feature The main menu now shows a little sun with 3 different states to add a bit more "closure" when finishing the game. The states are: Unlocked all shippies and solved all quests Unlocked all Upgrades from the chocolate store Unloc
Hello lovely people!
Patchy 1.2 is here!
⭐New Feature
The main menu now shows a little sun with 3 different states to add a bit more "closure" when finishing the game. The states are:

Unlocked all shippies and solved all quests
Unlocked all Upgrades from the chocolate store
Unlocked all Achievements
🌎New Languages

Added Turkish (thanks to Tufan Yilmaz - https://twitter.com/hyesmo)
Added Japanese (thanks to Hiroshi Ashida)
🔎Tweaks/Balancing

Minelayer now drops mines, even when ship is not moving
Mines which auto-target enemies have now a splash damage radius of 50 (instead of 25) like the static ones
Laser Hulahoop and Rainbow of Love have their damage doubled
Rainbow of Love damage now scales with "Splash Damage Upgrade"
🐛Bugfixes

"Guidance to Boxies"-Upgrade appeared only once until a restart of the game
Enemies have not been added correctly to the statistics. Should be fixed now (meaning: players should achieve the limits quicker)
When resetting the game, these 3 achievements are NOT removed anymore: Destroy Enemies with Missiles/Rainbow of Love, Unlocked all Meta-Upgrades
Issue with sun shader on Mac should be fixed (white sprite corners)
Impact VFX from Mininglaser had sometimes incorrect positions
Sound for the end animation (the little sad/happy cloud) was sometimes missing
I hope you enjoy the changes! Have a lovely day! 🌞
Simon
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12 May 2024Developer post
Patchy 1.12: New Music, Italien, Performance, Bugfixing, Tweaks
New Music Up to now, I used a royality free music from the internet but now we have a unique music made for the game by Jake Rizer @jrazer98! Italian Language The game (and also the demo) is now available in Italian! Thanks a lot to Gerardo who did the translation for me. Perform
New Music
Up to now, I used a royality free music from the internet but now we have a unique music made for the game by Jake Rizer @jrazer98!
Italian Language
The game (and also the demo) is now available in Italian! Thanks a lot to Gerardo who did the translation for me.
Performance
I tried to optimize performance by adding "pooling". Now, objects are NOT created/destroyed all the time but shown/hidden if they are needed. This is especially important when MANY objects/effects are created like in the this GIF. On the top, you can see that there is a short pause in the gameplay when all effect are created when the 4 novas of the ship strike the enemies at the same time.
On the bottom you see that this does not happen anymore because I never create/delete objects anymore and ALSO the amount of objects is limited by the size of the pool. Be aware that this is an extreme case with all those enemies and 4 novas hitting them at the same time. You'll not find this situation often in normal gameplay. There is one more extreme situation thought: When you have a lot of weapons and slice up many asteroids at the same time. Sometimes FPS dipped down during this situation and now it should be way more fluent. :)
Especially for the last stage of the game with many enemies and effects appearing, this should keep the FPS a bit more stable.
Tweaks

Quest Arrows are now bigger
Tetris collision (from Mr. I and his friends) is now disabled as soon as the quest is completed. This allows to collect boxies which have been (randomly) spawned in front of the huge Tetris block.
Bugfixes

Collected boxies were able to be collected AGAIN (while they fly away) and this could sometimes freeze the game.
UI could lose focus when opening the pause menu --> options menu while the ship selection was open. In that situation, it was not possible to select any button anymore with the gamepad.
Achievements did not unlock when the thresholds (e.g. shoot 2048 asteroids) were met in the demo. They should unlock now as soon as you start the game.
Health points are now "ceiled" which means if you have e.g. 0.3 health, you will see a "1" in the health bar and not "0".
Lensflare behind station in the cloud vortex is not hidden anymore.
Tried to fix a shader issue on Mac, where the sun in the cloud vortex had white corners.
While the list in the end screen is updated, the selection would always jump back to the "chocolate store"-button but now stays even if you have selected "play again" or "main menu"
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06 May 2024GamingOnLinux
Time survival roguelite in space Cozy Space Survivors is out now
For those who love to game but have little time, here's a fresh take on the whole survivor-like genre thing with Cozy Space Survivors out now. Read the full article here:
05 May 2024Developer post
Portuguese translation + Mac Version available!
- Portuguese translation added - Test upload for MacOS version Thanks for reading this little update! <3 Simon
03 May 2024Developer post
Cozy Space Survivors is OUT!
Hello lovely people! Long story short: My game is now available and I hope everything works for you and it brings you some joy! To celebrate, I made a little "Story Trailer". Well, maybe it does not deserve this name but hey, I hope you like it! Oh, and if you are interested in g
30 Apr 2024Developer post
Damage Numbers, Impact Push, Optimization
damage numbers now move in the direction of the impulse boomerang, hulahoop & mining laser now also push objects slightly away from themselves (engine was already doing it before but the push is now multiplied by the speed upgrade) performance optimization
damage numbers now move in the direction of the impulse

boomerang, hulahoop & mining laser now also push objects slightly away from themselves (engine was already doing it before but the push is now multiplied by the speed upgrade)
performance optimization
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28 Apr 2024Developer post
Mine Push, Tweaks, Bugfixes
Mines now get an extra random push when they are deployed Tweak: Placed more Portals & Asteroids so that space is a bit less empty Bugfix: Too few enemies have been spawned by the enemy manager Bugfix: Tetris Achievement was auto-unlocked Tweak: Achievements are now only comm
Mines now get an extra random push when they are deployed

Tweak: Placed more Portals & Asteroids so that space is a bit less empty
Bugfix: Too few enemies have been spawned by the enemy manager
Bugfix: Tetris Achievement was auto-unlocked
Tweak: Achievements are now only communicated to Steam when not already achieved
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27 Apr 2024Developer post
Performance Improvements
I just made an update which should improve a little bit the performance of the game. It appears nothing big BUT I changed a lot of files. So, if you want, feel free to give the game a go and tell me if there is anything weird now. Maybe I changed something without noticing it...I

Updates & announcements

TL;DR

New Shipy

Bugfixes

Weapon/Time Shopkeeper

Weapon Tweaks

UI

Localization

Performance

Gallery

Quest Overview

Quest Guidance

Localization

Balancing

New Achievement

Bugfixes

⭐New Feature

🌎New Languages

🔎Tweaks/Balancing

🐛Bugfixes

New Music

Italian Language

Performance

Tweaks

Bugfixes