Asteroid Requiem
Wizards in Training · 2025 · Casual, Action, Arcade, 3D, Realistic
PC
3 user reviews100% · 3
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About Asteroid Requiem
What if a rock could remember?Asteroid Requiem is an experimental game that’s part arcade, part art piece — drifting through orbit and memory as a sentient asteroid haunted by Earth’s legacy. It’s an existential sci‑fi fable about connection and collapse.You’re not a hero, you’re just a stone orbiting the scarred surface of Mars. Remnants of a failed Mars colonization mission drift in silence; while a haunting view of a broken Earth hangs on the horizon. All you know is to destroy what humanity left behind, gather speed, and hurl yourself back home. Each impact unlocks poetic fragments of who you once were, until a final, emotional conclusion.
Core experience
- Physics‑driven impact & momentum – Orbit Mars and time your collisions to destroy debris and steer your return trajectory. No weapons, timers, or enemies—just gravity and ruin.
- Designed to unfold in a single sitting – A focused 30‑minute Story Mode reveals 50 narrated Realization Fragments before the closing cinematic. Endless Mode lets you float for as long—or as calmly—as you like.
- Fully voiced performance – Professional anime/game talent delivers every memory and the finale, adding human texture to a stone’s lament.
- Atmospheric Unreal 5.5 visuals – High‑dynamic‑range lighting and volumetric clouds paint rust‑red horizons and the distant blue marble.
- Adaptive ambient soundtrack – An original electronic score (available as DLC) evolves as you progress.
- Controller‑first design – Thumb‑stick finesse recommended; while mouse & keyboard is supported.
You’ll enjoy this if …
- Short, reflective games like Flower or the quiet moments of Solar Ash speak to you.
- Graceful destruction feels meditative rather than competitive.
Developer’s note
This is a short, strange game that won’t be for everyone, and that’s okay.I made Asteroid Requiem as a way to reflect on my fears about humanity’s future. The cosmic perspective helped me express those feelings through poetry, music, and a bit of quiet destruction. If it resonates with you, thank you.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Alright. [i]Asteroid Requiem[/i] is done and dusted. In retrospect, after playing the game, the title makes perfect sense. This wasn't a particularly lengthy game, weighing in at around a half-hour plus or minus a few minutes depending on how the space debris falls. Anyway, it seems appropriate to keep this review relatively brief as well. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3529898602 This is actually a story driven game, fully voice acted, and actually, while the voice acting is a bit over the top, it also makes complete sense in context to the story, which goes from simple musing to the stress of remembering past events to the realization of what one must do to avoid great calamity and find inner peace. More or less. The backdrop to the story is allegorical and focuses on how we as humanity continue to ignore the ever-worsening global environmental crisis that many people ignore or flat out deny despite the fact that we are already past the point of no return and are firmly in the "try not to make it any worse" stage. When I was growing up, my dad used to say the environment was someone else's problem, and he was unfortunately correct. He's no longer with us…22 found this helpful
it's a neat, novel, and short nice experience2 found this helpful
Short, relaxing, and satisfying. Smashing space junk while unlocking memories felt simple and meaningful. Chill soundtrack too!2 found this helpful
It is tedious with no payoff. You are an asteroid that used to be a human somehow? And each time you hit devris you scream to yourself. So the object is to hit things. The debris seems to veer away from you while other rocks tend to zoom in on you with no hope to escape them sometimes. This makes the last achievement very awful and not worth it. Aside from achievments there doesn't seem to be a goal. I wish there was more to it. Maybe special asteroid moves or attacks. Maybe an actual story other than EMO angst. Maybe a cutscene before starting a new level. Multiple levels both off planet and off would be more of a story.1 found this helpful
I enjoyed this game, The controls are a bit difficult to get used to at first but with a bit of time it gets more intuitive for how the traveling is when rotating around planets. The art is beautiful and the voice acting is done well.1 found this helpful
This game Rocks!! Love the story, sound, and for a 1.99, it's a steal. amazing work from the developer. Big thumbs up from me. Cheers! https://youtu.be/46dbL1q-SDI?si=_ijNVc8DWKarssnU1 found this helpful
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