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Planetary Exploration Company

An action rogue-lite, bullet heaven, management sim. Survive alien hordes as you explore planets, extract resources to build tools and unlock new items, complete jobs to earn money while you manage your employees and make your company grow.

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June 17, 2024
2 years and 46 days ago
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About the Game

You are the leader of a Planetary Exploration Company, your goal is to explore planets to complete jobs and make your company survive and grow.

Combat

A bullet heaven horde survival rogue-like. The combat is inspired in Vampire Survivors. Instead of collecting exp gems, you extract resources that your can use in different ways. Carefully plan your weapons and items inside a base to be ready to survive an exploration run.

Manage your company

You have a huge bi-pedal robot to transport your employees you need to take care of. Use tens of items to upgrade them and avoid their destruction.

Build items

You can create tools and items for your employees and "transport robot", research and unlock new technologies by extracting aliens resources and taking them to the research lab. Use them to change many aspects of the game.

Endless game

The game generates endless new planets you can visit and complete. Each planet has hundreds of map sectors to explore.

Invent your own weapons

Research weapon components to mix and match different features to create your own player invented weapons.

Story Events

Encounter many story events told using weird symbols in an alien language, in them you have to decide which action to take, each decision can have powerful consequences.

Retro CRT effect

Immerse yourself in the sci-fi experience with this optional post-processing effect. Here's a comparison of how it looks using it and not using it.