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ASTROLANCER
ASTROLANCER combines top-down shooter and shoot 'em up gameplay into one action-packed experience! Devise your own playstyle with a huge variety of weapons. Hardcore and casual players alike are welcome!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“not always sold on "the guardian legend (1988) by way of more formalistic game design", but the top-down levels nonetheless absolutely shred anything its spiritual predecessor was doing in that regard and the scrollers, while pretty humdrum, end with bosses that heavily invoke…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I was definitely most interested in the bosses, just 'cause of my proclivities, but the other parts of the game's stages were honestly really nice. I quite liked looking around for all of the secrets hidden everywhere—that was actually like a third of the game for me—and the…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Absolute blast of an action game (with no Guardian Legend nostalgia required), lengthy for the genre but beautifully paced. I'd especially recommend it to players curious about dipping their toes into shooting games, since it pairs its real-ass bullet-dodging shootouts with…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedLatest official news
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v1.1.3 (9/28/25) - VSync update
- VSync is now available in the options and enabled by default. - Replaced some flawed code intended to smooth out the game's FPS, which was likely responsible for FPS drops after a few hours of play.
v1.1.2 (6/23/24)
- You will now be prompted to confirm your choice before exiting the game through the options menu during gameplay, or before resetting any options to default. The "Exit Game" option is also now a sca
v1.1.1c (5/31/24)
- Fixed the player using a saved checkpoint's data in Free Play (causing them to spawn out of bounds, among other things). - Prevented the player sprite from continuing to flicker upon re-entering the
v1.1.1b (5/30/24)
- Fixed a bug where player data would be reset to an outdated checkpoint upon loading a game and accessing the Weapon Select screen from a checkpoint in the same stage.
v1.1.1a (5/25/24)
- Fixed the Stage 3 boss's final attack having the Heartless Rampage gimmick on all difficulties. I apologize for not properly testing the normal difficulties after the Heartless Rampage update. - Red
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Singleplayer · Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter · Pixel Graphics · Action · Retro · Anime · 2D · Futuristic · Robots · Linear · Controller (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Window 7 or higher (64 bit) Additional Notes: If you can run Windows 7, you can run this.