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Astro Looter: Survivor
Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Yet another unfinished game that could have been amazing. Great concept but clunky feeling and as far as I can tell no option to rebind keys or auto aim or auto fire. Might be less annoying with a controller.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Even at $3 this game feels like a ripoff. No auto aim or shoot, so right off the bat it is missing some of the core survivor-like features. Then the unlockables are so shallow that it felt like one day of playing would be enough to exhaust everything. Frankly its not even about…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“The game isn't necessarily bad, but the lack of unlockable skills makes the gameplay loop too repetitive (especially since the levels/maps have the same objective). The different characters feel like a negligible change, so the only proper meta-progression in this game are a…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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Major Performance Optimizations and Improved Controller Experience
We've optimized game performance: Astro Looter can now achieve peak frame rates of 300 FPS on RTX 2060-era hardware with max settings, with an average frame rate exceeding 120 FPS . On GTX 1050 or equ
Optimize Weapon Stats and Balance
- Optimize the handling difficulty and growth curve of late-game weapons, reducing the difficulty of using certain weapons. - Performance optimization - Minor bug fixes
New Weapon Overclock Skills and UI Optimization
1. Weapon Overclock: When a weapon reaches levels 2, 6, and 10, and after upgrading 9 times using weapon upgrade (excluding Projectile cards) in game, the ultimate overclock ability will be triggered.
Optimized Defense Turret Building Experience and Visual Improvements
1. Fixed the issue where players temporarily stop moving after constructing buildings. 2. In Easy and Normal difficulty modes, building defense turrets will slow down time. 3. Improved the visual effe
Adjust UI Font Size and Optimize End-of-Game Calculations
- Adjusted UI font size. - Improved end-of-game calculations; - Slightly adjusted the pricing for upgrading weapons and defense towers as crystals collected and mined will be brought back to the ship'
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Bullet Hell · Arena Shooter · Rogue-lite · Rogue-like · Singleplayer · Vampire · Zombies · Adventure · Survival · Action Roguelike · Tower Defense · Top-Down Shooter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, French, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 36 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://astrolooter.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: SteamDeck can run at medium settings