Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation

Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.

Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation is a space, simulation and indie game developed and published by Jace Masula.
Released on November 30th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 448 reviews of which 377 were positive and 71 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation into these genres:

Space Simulation Indie Adventure Sandbox Open World Mining Space Sim Singleplayer Procedural Generation Pirates Crafting Atmospheric

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP+
Processor: 1.00 Ghz
Memory: 200 MB RAM
Graphics: Everything made since 2004 should work.
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 500 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

This is a great little game. If you've ever played Eve Online this is like a pared down single player off-line version of that. It's a small download and works well.

Oct. 2024

Eve Lite/Solo, without the annoying PVPers killing the fun it is a fun relaxing game.

Oct. 2024

good for the money

July 2024

If EVE had a Robin Reliant offspring then this would be it - smaller, more compact, a bit wobbly when taking a corner at high speed. Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation is a quirky little affair. Graphically, a mixed bag. The asteroids are flat, shaded affairs. To my mind, even the asteroids in Wing Commander 1, released in 1990, had more detailed asteroids than this game. But still, it's the gameplay that counts and Astrox:Hostile Space Excavation is pretty solid on that count. There are a good variety of ships, the mining is straightforward, easy and even relaxing (as long as you keep an eye on the proximity of enemy ships, but in practice, the odds are low that there flight path will bring them close enough that they detect you). The combat can be all set to auto - auto-targeting, auto navigation, and can be a case of just observing closely and only intervening if you need to escape. I can't remember how much I paid for the game - I suspect it was in a bundle some years ago. I'm not sure the current price tag (£7.18 in the U.K) is worth it, but it's a hard call. It's given me around 8 hours of fun before I decided to move on to other games. So there you go. If it's been in your Steam library for a while and you haven't got around to playing it, give it a whirl. You are likely to get some fun out of it.

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8.19€

7.9

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Developer

Jace Masula

Publisher

Jace Masula

Release 30 Nov 2015

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