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ASTEROIDZ: Space Adventure

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Blast asteroids, level up your pilot, and stack upgrades in a fast arcade roguelite.

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ASTEROIDZ is playable and being polished. Feedback and high scores welcome. Jump in, run a few games, and leave a review to let me know what you think.

ASTEROIDZ: Space Adventure

Blast asteroids, level up your pilot, and stack upgrades in a fast arcade roguelite.

RECOMMENDED

- Turn V-Sync OFF for smoother gameplay (s&box Settings ➔ Video)
- For Controller Support: Open Steam Overlay ➔ Controller Settings ➔ select the Gamepad template.
 > The default Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse layout stops the pad from being detected.

Controls - Keyboard

Thrust - W
Boost - Shift + W (faster, but heats the engine)
Rotate - A / D
Fire - Space
Pick upgrade - 1 / 2 / 3 (on level up)
Restart run - hold R

Controls - Controller

Thrust - RT / R2 (or push the left stick down)
Boost - RB + RT / R1 + R2 (faster, but heats the engine)
Rotate - left stick, or D-pad ◀ ▶
Fire - A / ✕
Pick upgrade - left stick or D-pad, then A / ✕ (on level up)
Restart run - hold X / □
Menus – D-pad to move, A / ✕ to select, B / ○ to go back

Fly and destroy

Tight, drifting space movement with a twist: hold Shift + W to BOOST for a burst of speed - but watch the engine heat, push too hard and you overheat. Blast asteroids, dodge enemy saucers, and grab the XP orbs and coins they drop.

Level up mid-run

Filling your XP bar triggers a LEVEL UP - pick one of three upgrade cards (Common → Legendary), from Piercing Rounds and Plasma Aura to Nova pulses, Lightning and coin Magnets. Builds compound fast, so no two runs play the same.

Spend and upgrade

Coins buy ship colours, hulls and thrusters in the Shop. Earn Level Tokens as your pilot levels up and spend them on permanent ship-class perks like Reinforced Hull, Heavy Rounds and Tractor Beam.

Pick your sector

Asteroid Belt, Nebula, Ice Field or Inferno, each with its own density, enemy, speed and reward modifiers. Higher sectors are tougher and pay more.

Survive the events

The field never sits still. Mid-run events hit with a shockwave - EMP Burst, Enemy Attack, Gravity Storm, Asteroid Shower, Coin Rain and more.

Climb the leaderboard

Your best runs sync to the global Daily, Weekly, Monthly boards, with your pilot-level badge next to your name. Unlock achievements as you go.

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ASTEROIDZ: Space Adventure player count history

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Updates

6 updates
Version 1.1.2 Update v1.1.2 - CONTROLLER SUPPORT Full controller support 25 changes

Added

  • Full controller support
  • On-screen button glyphs, with XBOX / PLAYSTATION toggle
  • Automatic device detection, with a short on-screen notice when you switch between pad and keyboard
  • The tutorial now teaches both control schemes
  • The saucer boss now collides with asteroids, shattering rocks it flies into and taking damage from them

Improved

  • Pad layout
  • Menus are navigated with the D-pad, cross / A confirms, circle / B goes back
  • Volume sliders can be adjusted with left and right on a controller
  • Level-up upgrades are chosen with the stick or D-pad and taken with cross / A
  • The menu highlight remembers where you were on each screen, so leaving a sub-menu and coming back puts you where you left off

Fixed

  • Joined co-op players heard no sound at all: shooting, explosions, pickups, level-ups and warnings were completely silent
  • Bullets and asteroids stuttered for joined co-op players and did not travel in straight lines
  • The level-up screen could instantly pick a random upgrade, because fire and confirm share a button
  • The ship fired a shot the moment a run started, carried over from the button press that started it
  • The menu select sound played twice on a single press
  • A single button press could act twice, once on the menu highlight and once wherever the cursor happened to be
  • The screen kept shaking for the whole level-up screen instead of settling
  • Circle / B did not leave the Shop, though it worked on every other screen
  • The device notice overlapped the version number in the menu and the quest line in-game
  • The BUTTONS row was cut off at the bottom edge of the screen
  • The confirm glyph could be drawn on top of a neighbouring button

Removed

  • Battle Royale is temporarily closed while co-op is stabilised

Known issues

  • Battle Royale is unavailable in this build
  • If your controller does nothing, set this game's Steam controller layout to Gamepad rather than Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse
  • The left stick also moves the mouse cursor in menus, so menus are navigated with the D-pad
Version 1.1.0 Update v1.1.0 - MULTIPLAYER & STATION MULTIPLAYER (BETA) - host or join online games directly from the main menu 38 changes

Added

  • MULTIPLAYER (BETA) - host or join online games directly from the main menu
  • MULTIPLAYER (BETA) - co-op for 2-4 players: share the score and survive together
  • MULTIPLAYER (BETA) - battle royale for 3-6 players: one live each, last pilot flying wins
  • MULTIPLAYER (BETA) - server browser to find open lobbies
  • DAILY CHALLENGE - a fixed sector plus two forced modifiers, identical for every player
  • DAILY CHALLENGE - compete on the daily leaderboard with the exact same run as everyone else
  • DAILY CHALLENGE - earn +300 coins for your first completed run each day
  • STATION - a new base where drones generate coins passively while you are offline
  • STATION - four modules to build and upgrade: Scrap Drone, Mining Rig, Salvage Hauler, Refinery
  • STATION - collect the coins your drones produced while you were away (up to 8 hours)
  • STATION - daily login streak with escalating rewards, plus a level token on day 7
  • ASCENSION - reset your pilot at level 100 in exchange for permanent prestige points
  • ASCENSION - keep your skins, records, drones and achievements through every reset
  • ASCENSION - unlocks the late-game station modules
  • BOSSES - a boss saucer warps in every 5 run levels, firing aimed spreads and radial bursts
  • ELITE ASTEROIDS - rare colour-coded rocks with special payoffs
  • ELITE ASTEROIDS - GOLD bursts into a shower of coins
  • ELITE ASTEROIDS - VOLATILE chain-explodes nearby asteroids
  • ELITE ASTEROIDS - SPLITTER breaks into double the fragments
  • SYNERGIES - max out a matching pair of upgrade cards to unlock a permanent bonus

Improved

  • Redesigned the main menu into three tiers for a much cleaner layout
  • Rebalanced the title screen so the logo, divider and subtitle read as evenly spaced bands
  • Tuned idle earnings so passive income stays a bonus and active play remains the main source of coins
  • Everyone in a multiplayer match now earns account XP and achievement progress, not just the host
  • Game over screen now shows the full XP bar with XP text, matching the main menu
  • Game over leaderboard now shows the monthly board with right-aligned scores
  • Sound effects now default to 50% volume for new players
  • Major performance optimisation

Fixed

  • DAY and WEEK leaderboards showing your all-time best instead of your actual runs for that period
  • Leaderboard times being overwritten by a lower-scoring run
  • Long player names overlapping the score column on the leaderboards
  • Multiplayer clients being unable to use boost
  • XP bar and match timer staying frozen for multiplayer clients
  • Clients having no way to leave a match in progress
  • Clients being stranded in a broken session when the host quit
  • "Code Error" message that could appear on the first launch

Removed

  • Developer console commands
  • Item pickups from multiplayer, where they could not be used
Version 1.0.5 Update v1.0.5 Ship idle animation 6 changes

Added

  • Ship idle animation

Improved

  • Cosmetic unlock levels rebalanced
  • Shop prices significantly reduced
  • Map/sector unlock levels lowered
  • Cleaned up the game over UI

Fixed

  • Asteroids showing a faint black border/halo on different maps/sectors.
Show 3 older updates
Version 1.0.4 Update v1.0.4 (Performance Hotfix) Performance optimization - significantly improved frame rates so the game runs smoother 1 change

Fixed

  • Performance optimization - significantly improved frame rates so the game runs smoother
Version 1.0.3 Update v1.0.3 Locked content (ship upgrades, challenges, sectors) now masked with "???" until you reach its required level 7 changes

Added

  • Locked content (ship upgrades, challenges, sectors) now masked with "???" until you reach its required level

Improved

  • XP orbs now give ~20% more run-XP - level up a bit faster and unlock cards sooner
  • Adjusted challenge score multipliers (Glass Cannon, No Magnet, Slow Hands, Hothead)
  • Engine overheat warning reworked: now shows a heat meter that fills toward failure
  • Tutorial reworked - clearer hints and faster pacing
  • Various in-game HUD fixes and polish

Fixed

  • Long player names on the leaderboard are now cleanly trimmed instead of spilling into the score column
Version 1.0.2 Update v1.0.2 Mini quests for bonus XP & coins during runs 5 changes

Added

  • Mini quests for bonus XP & coins during runs
  • Challenges - toggle harder modifiers for a bigger score multiplier & bonus XP
  • Leaderboard reset countdown

Improved

  • Fresh UI polish

Fixed

  • Sound crackling when thrusting + firing

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