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Space Dingus

Rocketcat Games

Space Dingus is a co-op horror road trip, in SPACE! Manage your ship, lead a crew full of jerks, and explore a dangerous galaxy in a last-ditch effort to save your home. Every run is randomized, with new stories, characters, and events each time you play. From the team behind Death Road to Canada!

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Your home planet is on the edge of a dangerous galaxy, and your people rely on an ancient planetary defense system to survive. One day, the system starts to break down. Top engineers work to repair it, but a critical piece is missing. It is an ancient part that no one knows how to manufacture: the SPACE DINGUS. The only hope is to find a replacement… in SPACE.

Many of your planet’s bravest and brightest heroes were sent to find it, but all failed. Now you and your crew of friends, family, frenemies, and the occasional random jerk are everyone’s last resort. You have significant budget restrictions. Good luck!

Space Dingus is built for extreme replay value with mechanics for all play styles. Everything in-game is randomized too: Locations, events, loot, enemies, and more. There are many rare and special events that may surprise you, even after a hundred hours of playtime. It’s a different story every time you play, set in a sci-fi horror universe that doesn't take itself too seriously.

  • Chart a path through a Star Map full of dangers and rewards.

  • Choose your next missions based on your crew's strength and weaknesses.

  • Scavenge from a wide variety of locations, surviving through avoidance, skills such as hacking, using the environment to your advantage, or brute force.

Select and customize a horrible spaceship that barely runs. Then remodel it until it’s a less-horrible spaceship that runs! Build new rooms, upgrade your ship functions, and customize your personal quarters with all sorts of space junk.

Use the character creator to bring your friends, family, or people you know into the game. Meet them and other random drifters on your journey, recruit them aboard, and assign them crew roles. You can also choose their equipment, lead them on missions, swap between them, and send your least favorite to do the most dangerous tasks.

Join your friends at any time for up to 4-player online co-op, via a seamless drop-in, drop-out multiplayer system. Then act belligerent for no reason and get into petty debates via in-game chat.

Make tough moral, diplomatic, and tactical choices, then deal with the consequences. Every decision’s outcome is also affected by the traits and personalities of your party members, and their assigned ship roles.

Deal with all the horrors of space, including marauding factions, space crabs that pinch, ultra-rare enemies with special abilities, and giant swarms of all kinds… sometimes up to the hundreds. 

• Put an astronaut helmet on a dog. Give it mechanical arms on its back. Give it a rocket launcher.

• Mod Support so you can replace all our hard work with your precious anime girls.

• Character creation system where you can make anyone you like, and assign their skills, perks, appearance, and personality! (Use it to make your vtubers)

• Throw chairs, in SPACE.

• Family friendly-ish. No swearing, but features cartoonish pixel gibs that spray everywhere as your family mows down hordes of Space Ants. This gore can be disabled in Options if your kids don't like SICK HEADSHOTS.

• Tell a primitive civilization that's never encountered space travelers to "Cool it."

Community Activity

  1. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #13

    This month, we really focused on Crewmate Follower AI and monster AI, including improvements to the Space Ant enemy faction. Our plan is to get followers to a useful state, get…

  2. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #12

    Our focus this month has been on further balancing and polishing the zombie infested locations. This includes enemy amounts, zombie combat and behavior, and more work on Time…

  3. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #11

    Since last month, we've been doing a lot of polish and bugfixing. We've been taking early Playtest feedback and focusing on that. This includes things like UI additions,…

  4. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #10

    Trying out a slightly new format for how I do these developer logs. I'm going to have a steady format of one top news item, then a summary of highlights from the past month, then…

  5. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #9

    Still crushed with work! We ended up devoting a lot of work time this month to a new location type. It was one that has a lot of new technology involving multiple entrances/exits…

  6. Space DingusSteam announcement

    Space Dingus Developer Log #8

    We're still really busy. We're shooting for something big for Space Dingus in late July, to coincide with Death Road to Canada. I can't say what it is yet, but it's keeping us…

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