77%Strong matchShattered Planet
69%39969% positive reviews, Mixed across 399 reviews·Procedural Generation · Grid-Based Movement
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An action rogue-like, bullet heaven, management sim. Survive alien hordes as you explore planets, extract resources to build tools and unlock new items, complete jobs to earn money while you manage your employees and make your company grow.
You are the leader of a Planetary Exploration Company, your goal is to explore planets to complete jobs and make your company survive and grow.
A bullet heaven horde survival rogue-like. The combat is inspired in Vampire Survivors. Instead of collecting exp gems, you extract resources that your can use in different ways. Carefully plan your weapons and items inside a base to be ready to survive an exploration run.

You have a huge bi-pedal robot to transport your employees you need to take care of. Use tens of items to upgrade them and avoid their destruction.
You can create tools and items for your employees and "transport robot", research and unlock new technologies by extracting aliens resources and taking them to the research lab. Use them to change many aspects of the game.

The game generates endless new planets you can visit and complete. Each planet has hundreds of map sectors to explore.

Research weapon components to mix and match different features to create your own player invented weapons.

Encounter many story events told using weird symbols in an alien language, in them you have to decide which action to take, each decision can have powerful consequences.

Immerse yourself in the sci-fi experience with this optional post-processing effect. Here's a comparison of how it looks using it and not using it.

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