Mining in Astromine isn’t limited to digging tunnels or clearing space for a base. The upcoming Steam survival game advertises fully destructible planets, letting you excavate all the way to their cores. You can explore alone or in co-op with up to four players, gathering resources, building spaceships, and fighting for territory. The game is targeting a 2026 release window, with no exact date specified.
A solar system you can take apart
Astromine’s exploration takes you between procedurally generated worlds with alien wildlife, resources, and environmental hazards. You land, collect materials with laser tools, and use what you gather to construct bases and new ships.
Its voxel technology extends beyond the terrain: trees, creatures, and the planets themselves are all presented as destructible. That gives you a choice between stripping a world for resources and limiting your excavation to preserve a location for a base.
Construction also involves structural physics. Bases can collapse when their foundations are too weak, so the ground beneath a building matters as well as the materials you put into it.
Destruction changes combat, too
The same voxel system applies to alien enemies. Gunfire removes pieces of armor and flesh, exposing weak points that can help you finish a fight faster. One of the creatures shown is a giant crab-like enemy covered in multiple eyes.
You play as robots battling rival robot factions for control of territory. Hostile outposts on the planets give you fortified targets to capture, and the destructible environments offer more than a straightforward assault through the entrance.
- Disable power sources to support a stealthier approach.
- Cut through walls with your laser tool to create another line of attack.
- Capture enemy positions to expand your foothold across the solar system.
For you and your co-op group, mining and fighting therefore use some of the same tools: a laser that gathers building materials can also open a route through an enemy fortification.
Blocky survival meets planet-hopping exploration
Astromine combines blocky robot characters and a crafting-focused survival structure with spherical planets and spaceship travel. Those elements overlap with familiar parts of Minecraft and No Man’s Sky, while its advertised planet-wide destruction is central to its own design.
The scope of that destruction remains a feature to assess when the game arrives. For now, the announced package includes solo play, four-player co-op, procedural worlds, base and spaceship construction, and combat against both wildlife and robot factions.
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FAQ
Astromine is targeting a 2026 release on Steam. An exact release date has not been specified.
Yes. Astromine supports solo play and co-op for up to four players total.
The game advertises fully destructible voxel planets, including their crust and interiors. Its destruction system also applies to trees and alien creatures.
You gather resources to build bases and spaceships. Combat includes alien wildlife and rival robot factions, whose fortified outposts you can attack and capture.