Rocket Blasters
Schmidt Workshops · 2017 · Hand-drawn, Side Scroller, Shoot 'Em Up, Casual, Difficult
PC
Positive82% · 22
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About Rocket Blasters
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed space themed shoot-em-up. Rack up points by destroying asteroids and enemies on your trip through the stars.
There is nothing too deep going on here, blow up asteroids, enemy spaceships and occasional bosses in your very own super awesome rocket ship. Get a variety of upgraded weapons in order to help blow up more asteroids, enemy spaceships ... you get the idea. Find out if you have the right stuff to get on (and stay on) the Rocket Blasters Steam Leaderboards!
Unique Scoring System
Rocket Blasters has a unique system that rewards precision and restraint while blowing stuff up. Each time you fire your weapon, you lose a point, that's right, you lose a point for shooting. However, each time you hit something, you will get 2 or more points back, depending on what you hit. Spamming bullets may be easier, but it will not get you the high score. Check your score on the Steam Global Leader Boards!
The Dread Pizza Armada in all its glory
Asteroids are not the only obstacle your rocket will encounter along the way. The Dread Pizza Armada is planning an attack on Earth, and you must destroy as many of their drones as possible.
Drones
You will encounter many of these dangerous robot ships on your journey. Avoid them, and their lasers, or suffer a painful demise. Shooting them will earn you more points than blasting asteroids, so thinking strategically about what you shoot will help you raise your score.
Pizza Armada Battleships
The Dread Pizza Armada was named after these oddly shaped triangular battleships. Be careful of lingering behind them, as they have a dangerous array of lasers aimed right at you!
Colossal Dreadnoughts
The Colossal Dreadnought is the rarest and most dangerous ship in the Armada. Huge and heavily armored, your rocket will have to be quick to avoid its dreaded Annihilation Beam, which destroys everything in its path, including asteroids, your rocket and even its own drones. Finding its weak spot will be key in overcoming this deadly foe.
Battling a Pizza Armada Dreadnought
Your rocket starts with a simple laser blaster, however, as you progress through the game, you may find some useful, temporary upgrades along the way. Look for the floating upgrade gear, and simply fly into it in order to upgrade your rocket. Upgrades have a time limit, indicated by the numbers that appear above your rocket on the screen.
Triple Blasters
Two extra lasers allow you to clear a path through obstacles and enemies much more efficiently than the single cannon you start with.
Side Cannons
Side Cannons allow you to slip past enemies and dangers, while giving you the power to blast them out of space from the side. This allows for a very different, strategic approach when confronting enemies.
Energy Shield
The Energy Shield is a very powerful upgrade, making your rocket completely impervious to all dangers for a short time. Be careful of the timer though, it is quite inconvenient when you lose the shield in the middle of a battle.
Destructo Beam
Possibly the most effective offensive weapon in the universe, the Desructo Beam was actually a recovered Dreadnaught Annihilation Beam, which was re-engineered to fit on your rocket. Enjoy its destructive powers while they last!
Rocket Blasters is the end result of a small series of ball-point pen drawings I did in October of 2017. The drawings were simple space themed images showing a small rocket ship, that developed into a story over the month long period. Someone suggested I animate the images, and I did one better and turned them into a game.
An early drawing in the series
Gameplay
There is nothing too deep going on here, blow up asteroids, enemy spaceships and occasional bosses in your very own super awesome rocket ship. Get a variety of upgraded weapons in order to help blow up more asteroids, enemy spaceships ... you get the idea. Find out if you have the right stuff to get on (and stay on) the Rocket Blasters Steam Leaderboards!
Unique Scoring System
Rocket Blasters has a unique system that rewards precision and restraint while blowing stuff up. Each time you fire your weapon, you lose a point, that's right, you lose a point for shooting. However, each time you hit something, you will get 2 or more points back, depending on what you hit. Spamming bullets may be easier, but it will not get you the high score. Check your score on the Steam Global Leader Boards!
The Dread Pizza Armada in all its gloryEnemies
Asteroids are not the only obstacle your rocket will encounter along the way. The Dread Pizza Armada is planning an attack on Earth, and you must destroy as many of their drones as possible.
Drones
You will encounter many of these dangerous robot ships on your journey. Avoid them, and their lasers, or suffer a painful demise. Shooting them will earn you more points than blasting asteroids, so thinking strategically about what you shoot will help you raise your score.
Pizza Armada Battleships
The Dread Pizza Armada was named after these oddly shaped triangular battleships. Be careful of lingering behind them, as they have a dangerous array of lasers aimed right at you!
Colossal Dreadnoughts
The Colossal Dreadnought is the rarest and most dangerous ship in the Armada. Huge and heavily armored, your rocket will have to be quick to avoid its dreaded Annihilation Beam, which destroys everything in its path, including asteroids, your rocket and even its own drones. Finding its weak spot will be key in overcoming this deadly foe.
Battling a Pizza Armada DreadnoughtUpgrades
Your rocket starts with a simple laser blaster, however, as you progress through the game, you may find some useful, temporary upgrades along the way. Look for the floating upgrade gear, and simply fly into it in order to upgrade your rocket. Upgrades have a time limit, indicated by the numbers that appear above your rocket on the screen.
Triple Blasters
Two extra lasers allow you to clear a path through obstacles and enemies much more efficiently than the single cannon you start with.
Side Cannons
Side Cannons allow you to slip past enemies and dangers, while giving you the power to blast them out of space from the side. This allows for a very different, strategic approach when confronting enemies.
Energy Shield
The Energy Shield is a very powerful upgrade, making your rocket completely impervious to all dangers for a short time. Be careful of the timer though, it is quite inconvenient when you lose the shield in the middle of a battle.
Destructo Beam
Possibly the most effective offensive weapon in the universe, the Desructo Beam was actually a recovered Dreadnaught Annihilation Beam, which was re-engineered to fit on your rocket. Enjoy its destructive powers while they last!
Artwork
Rocket Blasters is the end result of a small series of ball-point pen drawings I did in October of 2017. The drawings were simple space themed images showing a small rocket ship, that developed into a story over the month long period. Someone suggested I animate the images, and I did one better and turned them into a game.
An early drawing in the seriesWhat Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Rocket Blasters is a simplistic 2D retro side scrolling bullet hell/shoot 'em up style game with a "pencil drawings on graph paper" high school schtick that looks very amusing and nostalgic for roughly 4-5 seconds total. Fly a "rocket" endlessly towards the right hand side of your screen and shoot stuff, accompanied by some kinda lame sound effects. That's all there is to this. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. To make matters worse, there's no mouse input, despite this being sold on PC as if it were a PC game. This is unacceptable and somewhat insulting to PC gamers. It's a good demonstration of the poor attitude the developer has towards PC gamers, and this attitude has resulted in yet another defect in this game. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolse…2 found this helpful
Cool art style, simplistic and repetitive but there's a learning curve and the achievements are pretty tricky.1 found this helpful
Overall it's good, but permadeath is not what I expect from this kind of games. And free level select is not making it more fun1 found this helpful
this game is the best
Rocket Blasters is a compact arcade shoot-’em-up developed and published by Schmidt Workshops that embraces old-school design philosophy while introducing a clever mechanical twist that distinguishes it from more conventional space shooters. At first glance, it appears to be a straightforward 2D action game: you pilot a small rocket through asteroid fields and enemy formations, dodging hazards and blasting threats out of the sky. However, beneath that familiar surface lies a scoring system and pacing structure that reward careful thought just as much as quick reflexes. The core gameplay revolves around survival and point accumulation, but unlike most shooters where firing constantly is encouraged, Rocket Blasters actively discourages mindless shooting. Every shot you fire subtracts a point from your score, while successfully hitting enemies or asteroids earns points back—often more than you spent. This creates an immediate tension between offense and efficiency. Instead of spraying bullets across the screen, you are incentivized to aim precisely and fire only when you are confident of a hit. Over time, this system reshapes how you approach combat, transforming what could have been…
This was good, simple fun. changed the fire button though, not fond of having to click 'ctrl'
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