Astropods: Starside Glaze

Astropods: Starside Glaze

CheesiMoon · 2025 · Side Scroller, 2D Platformer, 2D Fighter, Character Customization, Cute

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About Astropods: Starside Glaze

Astropods: Starside Glaze is a 2D Fighting Platformer with endless mobility and combat potential! Starring as Hemi (pink) and Acro (blue), swap between them at any time to utilize their unique traits within various environments!

Astropods combines platform fighter combat with platformer styled levels, alongside nonlinear progression and perk customization, to create a dynamic combat-platforming experience unlike anything else! It's fun to mold your limitless potential yourself, isn't it? Use this excitement to enjoy life and save the Waterfall of Dreams from the Waterfall Thief!

CHARACTERS

HEMI!Headstrong, self-confident, yet open-minded, Hemi seeks to enjoy and protect the world's innate beauty. While she is normally relaxed and carefree, when she has to fight, she is reckless and dives in head-first to protect those around her.

Wielding a gigantic globe hammer and celestial magic, she is the unstoppable Juggernaut of the Stars!

ACRO!A seemingly odd friend of Hemi, Acro is closed off and distant, much more willing to observe than to take action. Despite that, for the sake of peace and tranquility, he will fight for it with blistering speed! 

Swift on his feet and in his strikes, he is the Rogue Cyclone!


GAMEPLAY

  • Experience dynamic platform fighter gameplay within this nonlinear adventure!
  • Utilize knockback alongside high mobility to maintain combos and maximize damage!
  • Swap between Hemi and Acro with the press of a button, each with their own unique attacks and physics.
  • Discover and equip unique badges to further specialize your playstyle!
  • Play either in singleplayer, or local 2 player co-op!

FEATURES

  • Enter one of 6 stages at any order to obtain their unique Star Badge and utilize their unique abilities!
  • Check out 5 different challenge stages that'll reward you for utilizing more advanced techniques!
  • Explore through the stages to discover over 20 powerful regular badges which boosts the capabilities of both characters!
  • Check out side modes like Dream Remixer and Boss Arena to further explore your potential through alternate scenarios!
  • Befriend the loveable(?) Zooka, who can share valuable tips and tricks, or give more insight on your situation, while fulfilling her own agenda...

STORY

An excerpt from our lovely(?) Zooka.
"Hi beauties, Zooka here!

Our planet is suffering right now! Our source of power and magic, the Waterfall of Dreams, has been stolen! High up in outer space, the waterfall thief has it all to himself; someone must stop him! To reach him, you must gather all the Star Badges from its base! But I fear the residents aren't too happy about the missing waterfall...
Unfortunately, I can't do it myself. My specialty is intelligence, so I'm not fit for field combat. My big brain is a metaphorical weapon, not a literal one. And no, I am not a suitable weapon! However, I offer personal life advice, and special facilities that help improve oneself and their skills! Aren't I so great?? Now go bring back the Waterfall of Dreams, while I assist from the backlines!
...don't look at me like that! I'm helping tons with things like onboarding and education..."

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 7, 2026
This is a really fun game would really recommend it. It sucks that this game doesnt have more people that know about it cause its really cool I wish there were a few more levels but as someone who likes to speedrun I dont fully mind all that much cause I can keep on practicing the levels that I am playing currently but overall would really recommend this game if you are into stuff like celeste pizza tower or like kirby
Recommended Dec 20, 2025
Fantastic action platformer! I love how there's a big focus on speed, there's a lot you can do to maximize how fast you go, whether that be literally or just by doing more damage. You can lose a gold medal clear time pretty easily if you struggle on a boss, which every platformer stage ends with, and that ends up making the badge system (think paper mario) pretty fun and engaging! Absolute recommendation from me, the platforming here is something I'll be coming back for a lot, it's so unique and I just love how it feels. This game rocks!
Recommended Nov 29, 2025
A game made with love ! Movement and combat are very rich
Recommended Nov 10, 2025
I’ve been following this project for quite some time, and seeing it finally fully release was so cool. Gameplay is what interested me the most, as there really aren’t many Kirby inspired indie games on the whole. While this game is an amalgamation of more than just Kirby, definitely having some Megaman zero influences, I can definitely see the design philosophy having some Kirby roots. Having tougher areas being more cramped and claustrophobic. Generally the game is not too challenging, and goes at a pretty brisk pace that can be easy to lose yourself in, which can lead to damage stacking up and inevitably losing a life. Combat with basic enemies isn’t too out there, usually dealing enough damage to kill them quickly or blast right through. The combat was seemingly a huge focus for this game, with it having some Kirby/Smash brothers inputs and tech. This was definite evidently a focus given the games rather large selection of boss battles to enjoy. As said before, there is a lot of tech the game has to offer, and you can make your own combo routes to really deal heavy damage thanks to the “stagger” mechanic. Each stage ranks you based on your time, and it’s great to play thro…
Recommended Oct 19, 2025
what if kirby had move tech? lots of fun
Recommended Oct 3, 2025
The camera's maybe a bit too zoomed out, and you move a bit too fast to make up for it. The fast one's too fast and the slow one is too slow. But in spite of this, it's cool and charming? And it is fun, i just found it hard not to run into guys. I'm a bit of an unpleasable nob, and i'm sure a lot of people would love it if they saw it. I'm gonna play through it more and change this from like, a recommendation* to a recommendation.

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