Asteroid Raider: Mine & Pilot

You are a salvage pilot dropped into a neon asteroid belt. Your ship leaves a glowing plasma trail behind it — and that trail is both your tool and your biggest threat. Use it to mine drifting stars, encircle hostile drones, and outsmart UFO raiders. Just don't crash into your own crystallized plasma when you come back around.

Asteroid Raider is a fast, snappy arcade roguelite built for short sessions. Each run is its own story: how deep do you push, how much loot do you risk dragging home, how long do you survive before the asteroid belt eats you alive?

CORE GAMEPLAY

- Hold the boost to emit plasma. Plasma drains from a tank you refill at your station. Release to glide silently.
- Loop around anything to capture it. Crystals and rare cores become extractable loot. Enemies caught inside the ring are destroyed for bonus Starcoins.
- Loot beads attach to your trail and follow you home. Reach the docking station at the bottom-left of the map to bank everything as Starcoins.
- Die before banking and you lose half your haul. The other half banks automatically. Risk it.

YOUR SHIP

Choose your role:
- Seeker — balanced starter pilot. Fast turns, small tank, recovers a sip of plasma on small loops.
- Stormbird — high-speed risk taker with a dash. Built for aggressive plays.
More ships drop later as you climb the wallet.

UPGRADES

Spend Starcoins between runs to make every future run easier:
- Tank — more plasma capacity per level
- Engine — more ship speed per level
- Hull — absorb a lethal hit per level

ENEMIES

- Drones — fast, suicidal, scratch through liquid plasma but explode against crystal walls. Use your trail as a fence.
- UFO Raiders — bigger, smarter, take two captures to destroy. Fire homing lasers that briefly slow you down. Worth triple the bounty.

PROGRESSION

Every dropped crystal, every popped drone, every full lap of survival pays. Crystal +10. Core +25. Drone destroyed +1. UFO Raider +3. Every 1,000 score adds another +5 to your wallet. Score still gates the global leaderboard, but your Starcoins are what change your next run.

ASTEROID BELT

The map drifts in slow motion around you. Resources move. Enemies spawn off-screen and approach. The screen never lies — what you see is what's there. No surprise spawns on top of you.

FEATURES

- Pure landscape arcade — built for one-handed phone play on the toilet, two-handed on the couch
- Global Top 100 leaderboard — leave your initials, climb the ranks. No account required.
- Single-player. No ads. No real-money store. Pure score-and-ship progression.
- Universal iPhone — works on every modern iOS device including iPad in landscape.

REQUIRES

- iPhone landscape orientation
- Internet only to sync the leaderboard — offline play scores fine

For pilots who liked Geometry Wars, Asteroids, Snake, and any "draw a loop" io-game — but want their own ship to upgrade, their own loot to chase, and their own death streak to break.

Mine the belt. Build the ship. Top the board.