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How to Play Asteroid Drift

Drift through an asteroid field with momentum-based ship movement, six hulls to fly, and seven stage themes including a bright one.

Controls

Choose Easy, Hard, or Extreme plus your ship and theme in Settings (changes apply as you pick them), then use WASD, the arrow keys, or drag/touch toward a target point to thrust. Press P or Escape to pause.

Goal

Avoid asteroids and scoop up fourteen kinds of salvage, from common ration pods to the rare ring relic. Every fifth piece earns a prize on a repeating ladder: a shield at 5, slow motion at 10, a tractor magnet at 15, and a bonanza at 20 that doubles salvage value for 8 seconds and shields you as well. Random supply drops hand you one of the same four prizes on their own clock, the first within 3 seconds of starting.

Tips

  • Start turning before you reach an asteroid because the ship has momentum.
  • Watch the pips on the Salvage chip: one more piece before a prize is worth a small risk.
  • Chase the rare salvage only when the lane ahead is clear; a ring relic is worth eight star shards.
  • Save the rare finds for a bonanza window, when everything you collect is worth double.
  • Try the Needle for tight gaps or the Hauler when you want the field to stop sliding out from under you.
  • Use short thrust corrections instead of constantly holding one direction.