Best Free Asteroids Game
Rotate, thrust and shoot the drifting asteroids - they split into faster pieces when hit.
Level 1
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How to play
- Steer your ship. Rotate with the left and right arrows and fire the thruster with the up arrow (or use the buttons).
- Shoot the rocks. Press Space (or tap Fire) to shoot; big asteroids split into smaller, faster ones.
- Avoid collisions. Don’t let an asteroid hit your ship - clear the whole field to reach the next wave.
About Asteroids
Asteroids is the timeless vector-arcade classic, playable right in your browser. Rotate your ship, fire the thrusters to drift through space and shoot the asteroids tumbling around you. Every big rock you hit splits into smaller, faster pieces, so a crowded screen can spiral out of control fast. Everything wraps around the edges, so a rock that drifts off one side reappears on the other. Clear the field to face a bigger wave; you get a few lives and your best score is saved locally. No signup, no download, nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Rotate your ship with the left and right arrows, thrust forward with the up arrow, and press Space to shoot. Blast the asteroids while avoiding being hit by them.
Large asteroids break into two smaller, faster fragments when hit, and medium ones split again into the smallest pieces. The smaller the rock you destroy, the more points it is worth.
The playfield wraps at the edges - your ship, your shots and the asteroids that drift off one side reappear on the opposite side, so there are no walls to box you in.
You lose a life if an asteroid collides with your ship. After a hit your ship respawns in the centre and briefly flashes while invulnerable; lose all your lives and the game is over.
Yes. Rotate, thrust and fire buttons appear below the game and the playfield scales to your screen, so it works on phones and tablets as well as desktop.
Completely free, with no signup, no download and no paywall - it runs entirely in your browser.
No. Asteroids works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file - Asteroids starts working the moment you give it your input.
Your input is processed in memory and never stored, so nothing is left behind once you have your result.
Casual use is unlimited, under a generous fair-use cap that keeps it fast for everyone.