Game Modes

Tutorial Introduces rocket control basics with only minimal risk of looming death.

Play Regular game play. Starts slowly but gradually piles on greater challenges.

Expert Jumps past the early waves to dive into the action quickly.

Casual Starts slowly like regular mode and stays at that pace.

Daily Every player faces the same asteroid sequence each day. Perfect for comparing scores with friends on a level playing field.

Tips

• Early on, you may only need to fire one rocket per rotation of the Earth. As the action heats up, you'll need two, three, or more.
• Rockets fired tangentially to the Earth fly straight and fast, and are capable of powerful hits. But you'll often only get one of those per rotation; the rest of your shots will be weaker and harder to aim. Prioritize your targets.
• The closer an asteroid is to Earth, the harder it is to deflect: it's faster, gravity pulls it harder, and your rockets have less room to build up speed. Try to take care of asteroids when they're far away, when possible.
• You can't launch a new rocket until you've started the current rocket's second stage. Waiting for the perfect moment for your second burn is often advantageous, but sometimes it makes sense to double-click - fire and forget - to prepare the next launch as soon as possible.
• Regular kinetic rockets are great once they've built up speed, but they don't help much close to Earth. Explosive rockets don't need speed, so they work well at close range.

Inspiration

This game was inspired by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Those rockstars have actually done it: they crashed a rocket into an asteroid and changed its path. Pretty cool.

Terms of Service

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