In bullet hell mining game Astro Prospector the real enemy is sleep

I watched C-beans glitter successful the acheronian adjacent the Tannhäuser Gate

I'm penning up Astro Prospector for a mates of reasons: firstly, it reminds maine of 2 puerility favourites, Atari's Asteroids and the less-known Crystal Quest for the Macintosh. And secondly, there's thing appealingly perverse astir a bullet hell of each gametypes that is ever simulating the subordinate nodding disconnected astatine the keyboard.

It's an "incremental" single-screen shmup and bureau burnout spoof successful which you power a spaceship with the mouse, auto-mining asteroids for elephantine java beans, portion avoiding oregon destroying the forces of the villainous SpaceCorp.

The magnitude of each circular depends connected your pilot's starting caffeine intake: aft a fewer seconds, their eyelids volition droop unopen and obscure the view. But you tin grind your beans betwixt missions to unlock buffs that empower your vessel and prolong your wakefulness. One of the unlocks lets you alert done hoops that make Flow, the productivity guru's favourite tipple.

The archetypal SpaceCorp enemies dwell of lethargic fidget-spinners - easy flummoxed by orbiting dilatory astir them. Later enemies present the expected screenfuls of projectiles, obliging you to travel precise peculiar paths crossed the surface portion continuing to excavate the swirling spacerocks.

As frenetic arsenic the battles get, though, it seems you'll ever person to interest astir your aviator falling asleep. To sleep: perchance to imagination of upgrade screens. And then, backmost to the gauzy brownish starfields for a top-up. Such madness. So sadness. Nice pixel HUD and vessel designs, though. Find the demo connected Steam.