Pixelstoids
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PIXELSTOIDS
An Asteroids-style shooter where you blast rocks, earn Pixees and upgrade your weapons.
UPDATES
v0.8a
THE RIFT IS OPEN.
- New weapon: RIFT GUN. Tear a hole straight through reality. Fire it once to open a portal into a hidden dimension above your own — fire it again to find your way back.
- The Rift. Step through and asteroids can't touch you, but they don't stop moving either — you're just not part of their world anymore. Every bullet you fire while you're up there hangs frozen in mid-air instead, stacking up until you're ready for it.
- Bring it back with you. Return to base space and hit Q to unleash every shot you stockpiled in the Rift, all at once.
- ...but don't linger. The longer you stay up there in one go, the more the place seems to notice you. Push it too far and find out why.
FEATURES
- Normal shot and charged shot
- Dash / burst movement
- Dash attack, so you can ram stuff on purpose
- Asteroids that break into smaller asteroids
- Five weapons to unlock and upgrade
- A second dimension, The Rift
WEAPONS
Normal Shot FREE
1 base damage
MAXED 4.5
Your standard blaster. Fast, reliable, and always there when you need it. Fire it with the left mouse button.
Upgrades: damage, speed, reload, recoil resist. The faster you make it reload, the lower its damage can go.
Charged Shot FREE
3 base damage
MAXED 8
A heavy hit that recharges on its own. It's your right mouse weapon by default (called "Critical Shot" in game).
Upgrades: damage, speed, reload, charge time, recoil resist
AOE Blast 1000 Pixees
10 base blast damage
MAXED 25
Explodes into a blast that lingers and hits everything inside it. It hits hard, but the reload is very long, so make it count.
Upgrades: reload, blast radius, blast damage, speed, recoil resist
RAILGUN
5000 Pixees
99 base damage
MAXED 249
The best combat weapon in the game, and it isn't close. It's the only one that deals more than 50 damage, and it does 99 the moment you buy it. An ultra fast beam that goes through several asteroids in a single shot.
The Railgun at max level deals more damage than all the other weapons at max level combined.
Upgrades: damage, pierce, reload, charge time, recoil resist
RIFT GUN
20,000 Pixees
∞ base damage
Opens a portal to a higher dimension. Enter the Rift, where nothing is quite what it seems. Fire again to return.
The most expensive thing in the shop, and it doesn't deal a single point of damage — but it takes you somewhere that can let you wipe out an entire wave in a single click.
Upgrades: reload, recoil resist, rift stability
Hold E to open the weapon wheel and pick which one your right mouse button fires.
CONTROLS
W
A
S
D
Movement
Left mouse Normal shot
Right mouse Secondary weapon (charged by default)
Double-tap W A S D Dash
Hold E Weapon wheel
Q Release bullets stockpiled in the Rift
Esc Pause
R Restart after you die
NOTE
The game is still in development, so bugs are very possible. If you find one, tell me in the comments and I'll squash it.
Windows might throw a "protected your PC" warning when you first open it, because the game isn't code-signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.
VERSIONS
v0.8a Current version
v0.5a Previous version
v0.2a Previous version
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Development log
- 0.8a - The Rift25 days ago
- 0.8a - Beyond Space (upcoming)26 days ago
- 0.5A - The Railgun Update31 days ago
- 0.2aJan 02, 2026
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