Astro Burn is our love letter to the early ’90s cute-em-up classics like Parodius and Pop’n TwinBee — games that were bold, wildly creative, and completely, delightfully bonkers!

A cute-’em-up is a playful twist on the classic shoot-’em-up genre, blending fast-paced arcade action with adorably chaotic characters and worlds. Expect all the dodging, blasting, and bullet-hell intensity you love—wrapped in bright, charming, and often hilarious visuals.    

                          

   

In Astro Burn, you play as Astro — a daredevil feline astronaut strapped into a high-powered jetpack — and her trusty robot sidekick AL as they return from a deep-space mission to discover Earth has been overtaken by colossal, cute-but-chaotic overlord animals… and not a single human in sight.

Armed with outrageous weapon combos, a rocket-fuelled jetpack, and purrfectly tuned reflexes, you’ll blast through absurd bullet-hell swarms, dodge rainbow-coloured laser storms, and face off against giant cosmic creatures who rule the galaxy with an aggressively adorable iron paw.

Expect screen-filling mecha pandas, hyperactive huskies wagging up solar vortexes, opera-singing space squids, and celestial goldfish launching star-shaped projectiles — all delivered with the wonderfully unhinged, anything-goes spirit of the 90s arcade classics.

This is cute-em-up chaos dialled to MAX — a nostalgic side-scrolling shooter inspired by 16-bit arcade madness, reborn with modern pixel art, tight controls, and over-the-top personality.

It’s retro mayhem with a cosmic wink: giant animal bosses, unhinged bullet patterns, cosmic comedy, and jetpack-fuelled heroics all wrapped into one delightfully chaotic adventure.

  KEY FEATURES

• nostalgic side-scrolling Cute -’em-up inspired by 16-bit classics

• Reborn with slick modern pixel art, tight controls, and adrenaline-pumping action.

• 9 lives cat health system

• 2 Player Co-Op Arcade modes 

• Unlock each level as you progress, with the freedom to replay anytime

• Earn steam achievements 

• Challenging end of level bosses

• Stack-em up weapon system:  Collect as many weapons and fire them all at once!

• Battle through 10 diverse levels—from deep space and mechanical worlds to Earth’s skies, underwater realms, sprawling cities, and beyond!

• Enjoy 3–5 hours of action-packed gameplay, with even more hours to sink in through skill mastery and level replays

• Hi-Score leaderboard with Time (hello speed-runs!)

• Catnip Power-up  (Bullet time in space!)

• Awesome synth-wave retro cool soundtrack by Venice Bleach, with a dash of meow-ness layered in!

• Double the chaos — team up in co-op mode!

• Share weapons and work together to take down the evil machines

• Competitive co-op, Space cat with the highest score is the winner.

Claw your way to the top of the leaderboard in this purr-fectly retro space shooter — will you be the ultimate space cat with the high score to match?

• Local Leaderboard (with classic 3 letter initials with your score and fastest time)

• Online Leaderboard via Discord, to share with your friends, community of Astro Burner's and join discord tournaments.