Roguelike survivor · Coming to Steam
10 planets. Thousands of mobs. One survivor.
Drop onto a planet overrun by steampunk robots, auto-fire into the swarm, beat its Gatekeeper and climb the Tower above it. Then do it again on the next world, forever.
Fresh from the dev log
The game is updated almost every day. Here's what landed most recently.
On Hard, elites dash 8 m at you. Now they glow red and rear back first, and a red lane on the ground shows exactly where they'll go. The aim locks when the warning starts, so a sidestep gets you clear.
Mobs now drop Star Dust. Spend it on 24 hats, backpacks, tops and shoes, from a Beanie to a Hero Cape that flies out as you run. See the Store
Ten pets follow you through every run. Stand still and each one does its own thing: Ember the baby dragon tries to breathe fire and sneezes smoke. Meet them
The crowd engine was tuned until a 3,000-robot swarm runs smoothly, reactions and all. Bigger swarms, same frame rate.
Follow every update on @Fluffster16
Trailer
Features
Thousands of mobs
Your weapons fire on their own. Your job is to move, dodge and pick upgrades. Every level-up offers three powers, and nothing is capped: attack speed, crit and lifesteal keep stacking until you're a walking storm. Each planet sends its own native robots, up to 3,000 at once, and they keep coming.
Minute ten
Stay on a planet for ten minutes and the Bull Rush starts. Robots pour in ten times as fast, and faster every minute after that. Each minute also raises the enrage level, so the swarm gets tougher, hits harder and moves quicker. Beat the Gatekeeper and get through the gate before then.
Every gate leads up
Beat the planet's Gatekeeper and its portal drops you into the Tower: a fresh maze of fight rooms, elite packs and Power Chests in the dead ends. At its heart waits the real boss. Leave its room and it heals to full. Snipe it from the doorway and the kill doesn't count.
Synergies
Every weapon has an element and leaves a status. Hit a burning mob with frost and it MELTS. Freeze it, then burn it, and it SHATTERS. There are ten reactions to find, from STEAM to SUPERCONDUCT. Own both weapons of a pair and its Fusion card joins the chest pool to supercharge that reaction.
Between runs
Every run earns Star Points. Spend them across 288 stars in 8 regions, pick up to two Keystones that bend the rules, and turn up the Heat for more XP. Respec any time, for free. When the chart is full, Mastery keeps going.
Loot
11 slots, 9 gear types, 5 rarities. Every boss drops a piece. Wear it, or feed three alike to the Forge for one better. Legendary ranks never end.
Build crafting
Weapon Augments change how a weapon fights: ricocheting saw blades, cluster-bomb fireballs, prism-split lasers, plague clouds that spread on death. Pick one per weapon and build something nobody else has tried.
The Store
Robots drop Star Dust as they fall, and elites drop it ten times as often. Spend it in the Store and wear your look on every planet. It's all looks, no stats.
Four rarities, from Common to Legendary. Epic and Legendary cards sparkle in the Store, and buying one bursts into stars.
Pets
Your pet runs at your side through every run and teleports back if a portal leaves it behind. Stand still for a few seconds and it gets bored.
The arsenal
Mix any of them. The interesting part is what happens when they meet.
Planets & natives
From Mercury's furnace plains to Pluto's frozen edge, every planet has its own terrain, sky and native robots.
Bosses
Every floor rolls one of them to guard the gate on the surface, and one to wait at the top of the Tower. You don't know which until you meet it.
Every boss rolls its own powers: one on Easy and Normal, two on Hard. Each attack is marked on the ground before it lands, and on Easy every warning lasts twice as long.
Coming to Steam
Wishlisting is the best way to help a small indie game. Steam will let you know the moment it launches.
Planetary Plains is made by @Fluffster16, who posts new weapons, bosses, trailers and dev updates there as they're made.