Gemstroids

Crack rocks, catch gems Fly a small mining ship over a field of asteroids. Your lasers fire on their own at rocks inside your mining ring; you do the steering. Rocks crack, gems spill out, and the tractor beam pulls them in, each one sold for credits the moment it arrives. Sessions are short at first and grow longer as you upgrade. Clear the field, and it comes back richer Break the last rock and the next wave drops in at once: tougher, richer, with bonus time on the clock. Every few waves brings a Motherlode, one huge rock worth a pile of normal ones. Quick breaks build a combo multiplier. Grab power-ups, chase comets, and mine close to black holes for richer rocks, if you dare: fall in and you lose a big share of the session's gems. Build your miner between sessions Nothing to wait for here, only choices: - Skill tree: 60+ skills in four branches. Keystones change how a run plays, and each run takes only a couple of them. - Talents: every level earns a book. Spend books to draw talent cards and keep one; draw one you already have and its mastery goes up. - Guns: start with the Mining Laser and build ever stronger guns. Master each one to unlock the next. - Artifacts: dozens of relics to find on the field, each a permanent bonus. Go deeper Mine Lunite in the Asteroid Belt, then scan your way through the Planet Rings and the Gas Giant to the Black Hole Rim. Each zone's gems are worth far more than the last, and each new zone adds a twist (ice storms, gas clouds, gravity wells) with a skill that turns it to your advantage. Warp, then start over stronger Reach the Black Hole Rim and you can Warp: restart the run for void shards. Every shard you ever earn makes all gems worth more for good, and shards buy prestige skills. Pick an anomaly to bend the next run for extra shards. Further out waits the Astral Plane, an endgame zone where you mine Astral Echo for the Astral Forge. Features - Five zones and five gem types, from Lunite to Astral Echo - 60+ skills in the tree for every run, plus prestige skills and Astral Forge upgrades that outlast every warp - Dozens of talents to draw and master - A line of mining guns to build and master - Dozens of artifacts in zone sets, with bonuses for collecting them - Drones, a sonar and torpedoes that mine beside you - Warp anomalies that bend your next run - Contracts to complete, some of them secret - A space station that saves up credits for your return while you're away - An in-game guide, tutorials and hover hints - Interface in 18 languages