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AstroTanto

You were promised a hero’s journey. You got a vacuum cleaner. Team up with 3 friends in this chaotic, physics-based co-op game. Build your space station out of "recycled" trash, dodge orbital debris, and try not to burn up in the atmosphere. In space, no one can hear you clean.

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TheoryStudios
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About the Game

JOIN THE CLEANUP CREW

Welcome to AstroTanto, where the safety standards are low, but the orbit is high! You and your friends are the galaxy’s least qualified sanitation engineers. Your mission? Tidy up space as much as possible, and deliver your haul to the Moon Base to collect your paycheck. 

PHYSICS-BASED CHAOS

Movement in zero-G isn’t graceful, it’s a disaster! Master the art of clumsy flight as you float, bump, and crash through your shift. Space ship abandoning you? Tether on and hold on tight. Trying to pass the hammer? You just threw it into deep space.

ONE MAN'S TRASH IS YOUR SPACE STATION

Forget shiny sci-fi chrome. In AstroTanto, you build with what you find.

  • Vacuum up scrap, goo, and old satellites.

  • Smash trash with the hammer tool to create smaller pieces.

  • Blast the laser tool across space to reach far away trash - just try not to hit your friends.

  • Repurpose certain debris to upgrade your station.

  • Need to go faster? Grab that broken solar panel that just flew by. Need extra defenses? Find an old turret hiding amongst the waste.

SURVIVE THE SHIFT

Every round is a race against Orbital Decay. You have 10 minutes to grab the loot and stabilize your orbit before your ship burns up in the atmosphere.

  • The Pilot: Fight the drift and keep the ship steady using manual thrusters.

  • The Janitor: Utilize the Space Vacuum to collect as much trash as you can - the bigger the haul, the bigger your check!

  • The Engineer: Search for Power Attachments hidden within the trash clumps around you, attach them to your station to fortify and defend.

  • The Vandal: Grab the Hammer or Laser tools to destroy large trash clumps to defend the ship from damage.

KEY FEATURES

  • 1-4 Player Co-op: Scream instructions at your friends as you try to pilot a wobbly station together.

  • Dynamic Building: Expand your tiny pod into a massive, customized (and probably asymmetrical) space station.

  • Hazardous Physics: Everything interacts. Loose cargo becomes a projectile. Untethered friends become meteorites.

  • Goofy Gadgets: Master the Space Vacuum, Hammer, Laser Gun, and the always reliable Tether.

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