Clear the Space

Clear the Space is a fast-paced, Arkanoid-like third-person shooter set among colorful planets, shimmering stars, moving rocks and comets. Your starship is trapped between invincible walls with a semi-intelligent cloud of asteroids, interrupting its mission. Use its seven special ultra-hard projectiles, which do not explode on impact, to clear the asteroids and continue your journey.

Clear the asteroid cloud

Asteroids may need to be hit more than once to be destroyed, and the cloud gradually resurrects, so you need to act quickly. Destroyed asteroids can release collectible bonuses or antibonuses: you chase bonuses, while antibonuses chase you. Bonuses can enlarge your ship, let it fire a dozen projectiles at once, create meteor showers or shoot laser rays that slow time. Antibonuses bring consequences to deal with.

Music and secrets

The programmed soundtrack by Dennis Martensson gives the shooter a rhythm-game element. You can switch tracks from the main menu by turning the music volume down to zero and then raising it again; the music does not play while the menu is on screen. The game also has cheats to discover.