Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

In the near future, an unknown "incident" has destroyed most of the ships in our star system, leaving valuable wrecks and cargo mixed in with dense clusters of asteroids where they don't belong, between the planets.

You're a space-miner with a small mining & salvaging vessel and a big cargo hauler, trying to make your fortune mining asteroids, salvaging wrecks, and fighting (or avoiding) mysterious entities in the dark void of space.

GAMEPLAY:

Maneuver through the frictionless void of space by applying thrust in 4 directions without ever rotating.

Find gameplay-changing items and weapons while you're mining ore, and use the ore to upgrade your ship.

The longer you stay in one zone, the more entities you attract. Hurry back to your hauler to repair damage and upgrade, and quickly get to the next zone before things get more dangerous than you can handle.

DEVELOPER:

Mine Asteroids, Don't Die is from Canadian one-man indie game developer Helmi Bastami (it rhymes with "sell me pastrami"), and it will be my second commercial release after "Swarm Queen". I've been working on another game for years, but I was inspired to take a break to make this.

INSPIRATIONS:

The gameplay is inspired by the unique controls (4 thrusters in space) and finding that it's just inherently fun to maneuver around like this. Similar to the classic retro game "Asteroids", but without ever rotating your ship.

The theme is inspired by movies like "Alien" and games like "Dead Space"; these stories start with space-miners hauling ore until monsters cause plans to change, but what if they just continued working their jobs? What if you were piloting the mining ship instead of running around inside it?

DEVELOPMENT:

This is an early work-in-progress preview - more info is coming soon!

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Horror themes (mysterious entities trying to kill you in the dark void of space), fantasy violence (spaceship combat).