Astrog

Astrog is a top-down action game with roguelike exploration and a simple progression system. As a member of the Astrog Initiative, you travel through unexplored parts of space to gather data about strange worlds. After your radar detects a magnetic anomaly emitting a radio signal, you discover an extraterrestrial artefact. Examining it gives you data about advanced alien technology, but the artefact teleports you to an unknown part of space and someone appears to jam your communication with the command center. Unable to return home, you follow your radar and explore in search of the source of the jamming.

Explore and fight

The environment and encounters are randomly generated as you move through space. A radar-based tracking system lets you select activities, while combat has no restrictions on which combinations of skills you can use at the same time. You can use 44 skills and weapons, including death rays, missiles, damage auras, shields, a teleporter and gravity emitters.

You can avoid traps, anomalies and hazards around artefacts and relics, or use them to your advantage. Fortified space stations contain mines, death rays, defence towers, observing satellites and other safeguards. The game includes 30 types of enemy spaceships and defence fortifications.

Gather and upgrade

Collect blueprints from alien artefacts and relics to craft weapons, perks and augmentations. Mine asteroids for resources and use them to develop ship upgrades. You can also collect and play over 60 classic musical records.

Planned features

The planned features include a story mode, non-hostile NPCs and a dialogue system, more enemies, skills, environments and activities, improved AI, and two kinds of goals that provide in-game rewards: research milestones and session goals generated each time you start a game.