More to mine. More to build. Wishlist Asteroid Watch!

Hello, pilots! Thank you to everyone who has already wishlisted Asteroid Watch. I've been busy expanding the mining loop, station systems, and ways to play alongside other pilots. Here's a look at the current development build, including two of the newest additions: clans and fleet expeditions. New here? Asteroid Watch is an online idle incremental space-mining game that lives in the corner of your screen. Start with manual shots, unlock Auto Miner, and let your ship handle the firing while you work or browse. Check back to unload your cargo, improve your ship, and build up your own orbital station.

Find your crew: clans and fleet expeditions

Clans bring up to 20 pilots together with persistent chat, the ability to join clanmates at their asteroid, weekly operations, shared research, and personal honor titles. Weekly rankings have separate small, medium, and large brackets. Clan scoring comes from manual mining, not simply leaving Auto Miner running.

Fleet expeditions are scheduled cooperative events with up to 64 pilots per room. Depart together and take on a planet or ancient artifact drawn from a rotating pool of 20 targets. Eligible victories award scratch cards, with mission credits available for your first qualifying victory of the day.

A deeper mining and progression loop

The current build gives you more decisions to make with every haul:

• A 200-node upgrade tree covering mining power, ore yield, ships, exploration, and more.
• Five sectors with distinct space palettes, ten asteroid types, higher rarities, and tougher encounters as you advance.
• Stronger ship hulls, specializations with trade-offs, and reactor modes with passive effects and fueled bursts.
• Permanent unlockable mining weapons, including lasers, chain lightning, plasma, and missiles, with their own visual effects and automatic-mining bonuses.
• Ascension, letting you rebuild your operation with permanent mining-power and ore-yield bonuses.

Ordinary shared asteroids support up to 32 pilots, while your cargo, upgrades, and station remain your own.

A station that grows with your operation

Your station is more than somewhere to empty the hold. Buy and attach working modules, expand storage, and use station-stored ore for upgrades. Refineries convert ore into other ore types, while the Research Lab unlocks improvements such as faster processing, longer production queues, and automatic output transfers. Your growing operation takes shape around you, module by module.

Discoveries, goals, and a little downtime

• UNKNOWN's first contact: a voiced introduction with synchronized captions and guidance through your first mining trip and station upgrades.
• Alien Reliquary: recover five rare relics in the later sectors, power up to three at your station, and experiment with trio resonances for different bonuses.
• 169 in-game achievements: track long-term goals in a searchable gallery, with Steam synchronization support for a selected set.
• Missions and daily supply chests: extra objectives and rewards between mining trips.
• Games Lounge: take a break with Plinko, Slots, Crash, Upgrader, and Scratch Cards.

Making the small details feel better

I've also been working on clearer menus and progress bars, combat audio, weapon effects, asteroid fractures and debris, smoother ship formations and travel, and reduced-motion behavior. Behind the scenes, that includes work on Steam sign-in, regional connections, combat synchronization, reconnect handling, and performance. Asteroid Watch is still in development. These are development-build features, not a release announcement. The Steam release remains Coming soon, and balance and details may change before launch.

Help Asteroid Watch reach more pilots

If a little corner-of-your-screen mining operation sounds like your kind of game, please add Asteroid Watch to your wishlist. You'll be notified when it becomes available, and it helps the game find its audience. Wishlist Asteroid Watch on Steam

Already wishlisted? Thank you! Follow the game for future updates, share it with a friend, and let me know in the comments: what are you most excited to try—building your station, hunting relics, joining a clan, or heading out with a fleet? See you in the belt!