Something Ate My Alien

Something Ate My Alien is a 2D digging and puzzle platformer in which you play as the AI Antalasia, guiding small Alien blobs across four planets. A pirate is hijacking you and demands specific items from each world, so you dig through the terrain to gather them while facing environmental hazards, hostile wildlife, puzzle chambers, dwindling oxygen and a more dangerous threat.

Explore the planets

Each planet contains resources to collect for the pirate and additional items you can use to build upgrades. Worlds vary in what they offer, including gems, minerals, fossils, artefacts and gases. You can also find hidden relics and achievements.

Solve puzzle chambers

Each planet has puzzle chambers where you push and pull blocks into the right positions to uncover hidden treasures. These include tokens containing parts of the codes needed to unlock new places and continue your adventure.

Survive and fight

Your Aliens need oxygen to explore, so find recharge stations as you dig. Watch for corrosive, superheated or poisonous pools, falling rocks, slippery ice, toxic gases and open flames. Hostile flora and fauna include charging animals, flying creatures and armoured beasts, and hanging fungi can also pose a danger.

You have six specialized weapons with different mechanics to defend yourself. Larger battles pit you against huge threats guarding hidden secrets.

Upgrade your equipment

Use items the pirate does not want to build upgrades for your Aliens. Options include faster mining, better guns, bigger oxygen tanks and longer-lasting jet packs.

The hidden threat

An alien race left behind a maze of locked teleporters and the codes needed to open them. It also left a dangerous fail-safe to guard them. This threat persists, and becomes more unsettling as you unlock more chests.