Cheat Engine Linux vs CoSMOS

Cheat Engine Linux is a free, open-source Linux toolkit for scanning and editing process memory, debugging, disassembling, and creating trainers. It is intended for single-player games, reverse engineering, and learning. Scanning handles numeric, string, byte-pattern, binary, grouped, and custom-Lua values, plus pointer and disk-backed scans for large targets. Editing and debugging include typed memory changes, freeze modes, hardware and software breakpoints, watchpoints, single-stepping, tracing, and register and stack views. The application reads and writes Cheat Engine .CT tables and supports a broad compatible Lua API. ceserver and GDB-remote clients support remote or cross-device debugging. A Mono dissector browses Unity runtime layouts, and IL2CPP targets are detected. Prebuilt .deb and AppImage packages accompany releases. The project describes itself as young and immature, with bugs and missing features. Its MIT license is listed by the repository.

CoSMOS is a free self-service gamehacking tool for people who want to modify their own games while waiting for trainers. It is offered in Steam Deck, PC Beginner, and PC Advanced versions, with options for beginners and experienced gamehackers. The Steam Deck edition is a native application for Linux and Steam Deck, with a simplified memory scanner and built-in disassembler. PC Beginner is integrated with Cheat Happens Aurora. PC Advanced includes a memory scanner, VEH debugger, script engine, disassembler, dump viewer, speedhack, .NET assembly explorer, reference search, process viewers, and script editor; its listed version is 6.1.5. CoSMOS uses hardware-accelerated scans and can read and import 99% of CheatEngine tables. The free tool requires no registration, has no locked features, and includes no adware or hidden software. Cheat Happens provides technical support through its message board. The maker advises using cheats and trainers offline only and says it does not make cheats for online or multiplayer games.