We’ve developed a small game inspired by titles like Privateer and Rebel Galaxy, bringing that experience to a 2D top-down perspective—with trading, missions, combat, and a story, without compromising on depth. We love titles like Cosmoteer, Gratuitous Space Battles or Silent Sector. If you like one of them - you may also like Cold Cargo.
The main story offers around 8-10 hours of gameplay. Along with more then 50 handcrafted side quests in addition to procedural missions. You can work your way up from a small spaceship to a massive carrier, set up your own trade routes, manage trading fleets, and explore a dynamic economy, build an own space station, invest in economy — and much more.
More then 40 ships to fly and own, more then 30 weapons with levels and rarity to collect.
Does this sound like your kind of game? We’re looking for players who’d like to test Cold Cargo and we are happy for any feedback. You can find an details about the game and sign up for an unlimited playtest at coldcargo.de. We will send you an individual invite link.
If there’s enough interest, we’re considering releasing the game on Steam and/or mobile devices. The game is currently only available in English and German - we may add additional translations later.
Can be played with mouse, mouse & keyboard, controller or touch devices inside your browser without installing anything.
Playable Link:coldcargo.de Involvement: Solo-Dev & son :-)
You can already play Cold Cargo as a virtual twin-stick shooter on mobile. We adjusted the UI a bit to fit better on smaller smartphone screens in portrait and landscape. On our test devices it runs very well - if you would like to test for yourself. Native mobile app would be possible to build but as said, we still don't know if this is even a game people would like to play :-)
Starsector looks cool I was not aware of it - thank you for sharing. In Cold Cargo there is a ship designer you can unlock later in the game to build your own custom ships (placing small hull tiles and weapon slots, cargo space and so on). But Starsector ships look much more detailed - we autogenerate deco elements to fill the shape of the ship you can build - each ship can have different painting.
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u/Gabe_Isko 5d ago
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