Blue-Collar Astronaut Demo

If you plan on becoming a spaceship pilot, this is a 2D game that teaches you to never underestimate gravitational forces. Blue-Collar Astronaut is the name and full manual control is the game, after all, blue-collar isn’t in the tile for nothing.

Blue-Collar Astronaut revolves around a very simple concept. You have a spaceship that is either docked on the surface of an asteroid or slightly drifting through space, and you have to either land it somewhere or ‘drive’ it through some sort of obstacle course.

There are just three keys to use when controlling the ship, left, right and engine boost. Nothing more, nothing less. However, Blue-Collar Astronaut is far from being an easy game. Controlling the craft is nowhere near as easy as driving a car in a 2D racing game because here you have to take into account gravity related physics.

Once you get the ship going in a direction, making a sharp turn gets really complicated if you don’t really know how physics work. And since hitting certain objects lowers your score, you’ll do a lot of panicking when approaching said objects and most certainly, at first, mash the controls until you make things worse.

Blue-Collar Astronaut comes with a rather harmless appearance thanks to its cartoonish look and easy going mechanics. It’s probably what tricks you into thinking that this game is childsplay.

The game comes with a wide range of levels that have the same end-level requirements but put you through different scenarios each time. It’s rather fun to see how easily a ship can blow up after mildly impacting an asteroid that’s completely made out of mattresses. Regardless of how you look at it, Blue-Collar Astronaut really is a fun game.

To sum things up, if you’re looking for a casual and challenging game that makes you smile and hold your breath on a lot of occasions, Blue-Collar Astronaut is a really good option.