Asteroid Bounty Hunter
EGAMER · 2016 · Indie, Action, Casual, Adventure, RPG
PC
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About Asteroid Bounty Hunter
✦ AI summary
Pilot a veteran bounty hunter's ship across space to destroy asteroids, defeat rival hunters, and uncover a touching story of redemption with your loyal AI companion. Customize your vessel with limitless upgrades, master four unique abilities with strategic cooldowns, and face five distinct bosses while farming experience to tackle progressively harder challenges.
Ready to take the wheel old geezer?
Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter, with a lot more in store than simply blowing up asteroids. The story follows our hero John, who is a veteran, trying to do amends in his screw up life and he only has his space ship AI, who still cares about him. The story latter unfolds some pretty interesting things about John, his life and his relationship with stuff around him.
The game itself is based on a dodging/blowing up stuff, but that quickly falls in background picture, since you have to outmaneuver the enemy, who are constantly changing. Your job is to save planets from incoming asteroids, while taking care of your affairs with other bounty hunters.
The concept of the game is to farm experience, so you can unlock new upgrades. You can collect mastery points from other bounty hunter ships to unlock new ships. If you find yourself unable to progress the game, you can always come back to earlier levels and farm experience, which you can use to make limitless upgrades for you ship. Each new level brings a quest with an unique one time ship upgrade, so use it wisely.
Your ship 4 unique abilities
There is two types of upgrades. You can make global upgrades in shipyard or ability upgrade in upgrade center.
GLOBAL UPGRADES
There is limitless ship upgrade points, which you can spend on:
Player get upgrade point for each level up. To level up you need to get specified amount of experience by destroying hostile ships or asteroids. When we say limitless, we think limitless... there is no player level cap.
Those upgrades applies to all ships in shipyard no mater which is selected.
ABILITIES UPGRADES
There is 6 different upgrades, each counting 20 points to spend.
There is 5 different ships in shipyard each having an unique passive bonus. Those bonuses are added to global and abilities upgrades. If you manage to unlock the special ship, you'll get all the bonuses.
Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter, with a lot more in store than simply blowing up asteroids. The story follows our hero John, who is a veteran, trying to do amends in his screw up life and he only has his space ship AI, who still cares about him. The story latter unfolds some pretty interesting things about John, his life and his relationship with stuff around him.
The game itself is based on a dodging/blowing up stuff, but that quickly falls in background picture, since you have to outmaneuver the enemy, who are constantly changing. Your job is to save planets from incoming asteroids, while taking care of your affairs with other bounty hunters.
- unique boss fights with different difficulty levels
- defend the nearby planets from vicious asteroids attacks
- battle other bounty hunters
The concept of the game is to farm experience, so you can unlock new upgrades. You can collect mastery points from other bounty hunter ships to unlock new ships. If you find yourself unable to progress the game, you can always come back to earlier levels and farm experience, which you can use to make limitless upgrades for you ship. Each new level brings a quest with an unique one time ship upgrade, so use it wisely.
- over 100 different size and texture asteroids, flying towards the planets
- 5 different types of bounty hunters, exchanging whole game trying to kill you
- 5 different bosses, each having completely unique mechanic
Your ship 4 unique abilities
- Basic attack - limited to 3 energy particles on screen
- Photon swarm - more powerful - giant balls of energy spinning and crushing everything ahead, it has 3 charges stored on ship
- Death ray - laser cutting asteroids like it's a knife going through butter, it has significantly larger cool down, so use it wisely
- Final blast - ultimate attack - sends a missile with a shape of a phoenix to the center of the screen and blowing everything hostile in 360' area. The cool down is 60 seconds, so in a way you're limited to 1-2 use per level.
There is two types of upgrades. You can make global upgrades in shipyard or ability upgrade in upgrade center.
GLOBAL UPGRADES
There is limitless ship upgrade points, which you can spend on:
- global shield durability
- global abilities cool down
- global damage increase
Player get upgrade point for each level up. To level up you need to get specified amount of experience by destroying hostile ships or asteroids. When we say limitless, we think limitless... there is no player level cap.
Those upgrades applies to all ships in shipyard no mater which is selected.
ABILITIES UPGRADES
There is 6 different upgrades, each counting 20 points to spend.
- Shield durability (max shield value)
- Shield regeneration rate
- Basic attack damage upgrade
- Photon swarm damage upgrade
- Death ray damage upgrade
- Final blast damage upgrade
There is 5 different ships in shipyard each having an unique passive bonus. Those bonuses are added to global and abilities upgrades. If you manage to unlock the special ship, you'll get all the bonuses.
- No bonus
- Shield durability bonus %
- Cool down bonus %
- Damage bonus %
- Shield, CD and damage bonus %
- amazing space graphics and ambient
- high resolution planets and stars
- advanced GUI with customizable preferences which include controls (controller support), graphics and audio
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Better than I expected. Definitely worth playing.
The controls feel awkward and unresponsive.
Worth every minute and every cent.
Bought it without many expectations and ended up having a great time
[h1]A Simple Space Shooter That’s Fun for a While but Lacks Staying Power[/h1] Asteroid Bounty Hunter feels like one of those indie games that knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn't try to overcomplicate things. You jump into a spaceship, blast asteroids, fight enemy ships, collect rewards, and gradually improve your equipment. It's a straightforward arcade-style experience that can be entertaining in short sessions, but it also struggles to stay interesting for long periods. The first few hours were actually pretty enjoyable. There's something satisfying about flying through asteroid fields while destroying targets and collecting resources. The controls are easy to learn, and the game gets you into the action quickly without burying you under complicated systems. Progression is one of the better parts of the experience. Earning money, upgrading ships, and unlocking better equipment gives you a reason to keep playing. Even though the gameplay loop is fairly simple, having goals to work toward helps maintain some motivation. Where the game starts to lose momentum is in its repetition. Most missions eventually begin feeling very similar. You'll spend a lot of time …
Fun game, owned it for several years and went back to it tonight. Some weird FPS issues going on. One minute running 180FPS (monitor max refresh) then tanking to 48FPS and slowing the game down a bit. Pressing ESC then using the mouse to hit resume mostly puts it back up, but shortly drops again. I guess this game is long out of development, but an endless survival mode would be nice.
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