Asteroids... But Roguelite

Game is misnamed, It should be called "Asteroids... But Roguelike." I'm probably being pedantic, misinformed, or both, but I always thought roguelite implied some persistence between runs, while roguelike meant every run was fresh, with no carry over, other than player experience. There is no carry-over of anything tangible here. While I really enjoy roguelite games, I don't really care for roguelikes. It's a subtle distinction, I know, but to me it makes all the difference. I get it, i probably should've done more research before purchasing, but it was less than 5 bucks, so i"m not really bothered. It is a good game, but the negative review is for the title. If you don't mind starting anew each time, then go for it!

The progression/choice is super cool. It captures this feeling I like from games like Asteroids and Galaga, but adds a whole new dimension where score matters (because you get money for upgrades from it), and you're given meaningful choices. There's a couple ways I've played it; 1. just trying to get the perfect score streak/multiplier through precision, or 2. brute forcing it with epic upgrades. I am #2 on the leaderboard at the time of my writing, and I felt somewhat godlike with my bombs, shotgun lasers, sniper, shield, max health, etc... I didn't expect to get this much play time out of it, and I think I'll be playing it quite a bit more.

Fun game. The space ship feels good to play, different weapons are fun to use. After playing it for a little bit you can get pretty good at it. Especially making good use of the edges of the screen to get teleported to the other side provide some good options for smart plays. There is a pretty big difference in how difficult some of the bosses are, but that does also add another layer of luck to it, which does fit the game.

Really fun twin stick shooters that adds roguelike elements

Asteroids... But Roguelite is like the eponymous game of its class in a sub-sub-genre of shmup that includes Space Smash and Burst Drive -- in the class of 'really close to Asteroids where it's a single screen playing field, but then there is deep gameplay in the powerups you can pick up but you're not -required- to understand them, just soak them up and enjoy the fireworks'.

Quickly ramps up from starting with a single laser with reasonably long reload, to adding on an additional weapon (bomb/multi-laser spread/mine launcher etc.) that allows you to start chaining some sweet combo kills on enemies and asteroids. Blowing up stuff gives you money, at the end of the wave, you get offered a selection of gear to purchase for the next wave. After a few waves, enemies get tougher and you need to get deadlier. After my first hour of improving, I'm consistently getting to wave 3 and I get enough money per wave to get the good weapons. You end up with 3-4 decent weapons that quickly start wiping large parts of the screen with the AOE/exploision-based projectiles. However, the boss level enemies from previous waves are now more common, so the challenge is there to keep you interested. You yourself need to level up in your ability to dodge and correctly prioritize targeting enemies to stay alive. [b]Not a roguelite[/b], your progress doesn't persist through each run...

+1 :)

Solid Arcade throw back with some enough choice to make it fun to try to get a better score.

Really fun spin on Asteroids. Can get pretty intense, some neat ability combinations. Easy to lose track of time blowing up space rocks.

A fun and simple game. The controls are easy enough, I wish the go to aiming system did not involve the mouse, but it works.