MOONMANTLE

Dig deep. Fly far. Come home heavy.

Motherload meets Asteroids — a top-down space mining game where you pilot a compact mining ship through asteroid belts, drill into living planets, and haul your fortune back to the station… if you make it back.

The Story

Moonmantle started as a small lunar mining outfit, drilling beneath the Moon's crust for rare mantle deposits. Decades later, the company's rigs, ships, and prospectors operate across the belt, on remote planets, and in the deep void.

You're the newest prospector on the roster. The company gives you a ship, a laser, and a simple deal: everything you mine, you keep a cut. The catch? The good stuff is out there — past the scrap fields, in belts where the rocks fight back.

The Loop

• Mine the belts - carve up asteroids with your mining laser and fill your hold
• Land on planets - enter a planet and drill through its destructible interior, Motherload-style. Every biome hides resources you can't find anywhere else
• Haul it home - return to the station before your hold (or your luck) runs out
• Upgrade everything - drills, lasers, thrusters, cargo, hulls, and a small army of helpers: mining drones, cargo droids, and autonomous miner ships that work while you fly
• Push deeper - each belt is richer and meaner than the last. How far out do you dare to go?

Controls

• WASD / Arrow Keys — fly
• Touch — virtual joystick, drag to fly (mobile / touchscreen)
• L or double-click a planet — land / enter planet
• R — reset save (asks for confirmation — it wipes everything)

Mouse / touch drives the menus. Pinch or scroll to zoom.

⚠️ Playtest Build

This is an early test build — saves will not persist between updates, so don't get too attached to your empire (yet).

Your feedback shapes the game. Drop a comment with anything: what confused you, what felt great, where you got bored, what you'd want next. Even one sentence helps. Thanks for playing! 💜