Retronaut

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Genre: Action · Developer: GrassyAss Studios · Release: Jun 19, 2026.

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Retronaut is a roguelite space shooter where the ship you start with is never the ship you finish with. GrassyAss Studios built it around a simple promise: fly into hostile galaxies, get stronger as you go, and see how far that growth can carry you before something out there finally catches up.

How it plays

Each run drops you into waves of enemies, from alien swarms to derelict drones and stranger things lurking further out, and your job is to survive while your ship keeps changing shape underneath you. You pick up modules as you go, and those modules stack into a build that’s genuinely yours by the end of a run, not something you picked from a fixed loadout screen beforehand. The pull here is the same one that makes roguelites addictive in general: you die, you learn something about what worked, and you go again with a slightly better read on how to build your ship next time. Retronaut leans into the idea that the galaxies themselves push back harder the deeper you go, so the loop isn’t just “shoot things and get bigger,” it’s shoot things, get bigger, and stay ahead of a threat curve that’s actively trying to outpace you.

Who it’s for

If you like games where a single run can spiral into “just one more” territory, this is squarely in that lane. Fans of build-crafting roguelites, twin-stick style space shooters, or anything with an escalating difficulty curve and gear that snowballs will feel right at home. It’s also a reasonable pick if you want something you can drop into for twenty minutes or lose an evening to, since that’s the nature of run-based action games. If you need a story-driven campaign, a slower tactical pace, or you generally bounce off permadeath and starting over, this probably isn’t going to convert you. It’s built for people who don’t mind losing a run as long as the next one feels different.

Is it worth it?

For the roguelite crowd, games like this tend to earn their keep through replayability rather than length, and that’s the right way to judge it here. A single playthrough isn’t really the point; it’s whether the run-to-run variety in ship builds keeps pulling you back. Action roguelites in this vein are also exactly the kind of game that rewards patience on price. If you’re on the fence, keeping it on a wishlist and grabbing it during a sale is a low-risk way to find out whether the build-crafting loop clicks for you, and if it does, you’ll likely get plenty of runs out of it either way.

Quick facts

Genre: Action. Developer and publisher: GrassyAss Studios. Platform: PC, via Steam. Release date: June 19, 2026.