Asteroids grows a convoy to protect and a spreadsheet to run it
Rogue Space Convoy dresses arcade vector combat in roguelite bookkeeping, and the screenshots suggest it wants you to read as much as you shoot.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The asteroids in the main menu screenshot are still flat sided polygons, the same blocky rocks that gave the arcade cabinet its name decades ago. Everything built around them looks like it grew up on spreadsheets instead. Delti LLC calls Rogue Space Convoy a love letter to Asteroids, and the wireframe ships bear that out: thin neon outlines, no shading, weapons rendered as pink beams and burst rings rather than sprites. It is a vector lineage rather than a pixel one, which is a useful thing to say plainly, because the studio's own pitch leans on the comparison hard enough that you could mis...