Pilot your ship through an endless meteor field! Chain near-miss combos, collect power-ups and shield variants, survive boss waves, unlock pilot upgrades. Take on Escort Run to protect a cargo hauler, or enter Asteroid Belt Blitz — thread through gaps in asteroid walls as the corridor compresses, dodge magnetite homing rocks, and boost through with afterburner for 3x points.
How Meteor Dodge plays
Meteor Dodge is built around a single core loop: pilot your ship through an endless field of meteors and reward yourself for getting close. Movement is on four axes — up, down, left, and right — with optional shield activation when the bar fills. The further you survive, the denser the field gets, until power-ups and shield variants become the only way to keep your run alive.
Most points come from near-miss combos. Dodging a meteor by a hair grants a multiplier that decays a few seconds after each near-miss. Keep grazing rocks back-to-back and the multiplier compounds, turning a tense survival run into a high-score sprint. New players almost always over-correct; veterans hold their line and let rocks pass within a pixel of the hull.
Modes and what they reward
Classic is the standard endless run — pure dodging with periodic boss waves. Escort Run swaps the score model: you protect a slower cargo hauler and earn proximity points by hugging it, which forces a different style of dodging because you can't freely roam the screen.
Asteroid Belt Blitz is the technical mode. Asteroid walls scroll in with narrow gaps; you need to thread the gaps cleanly while the corridor compresses. Magnetite homing rocks track you, and the afterburner triples scoring at the cost of finer movement. A clean Blitz run is the fastest way to a top-of-board score.
Scoring and upgrades
Each meteor dodged gives base points; near-misses multiply the base. Shield orbs let you absorb a hit without losing your run — but they also wipe your near-miss meter, so popping a shield late in a chain is a real cost. Pilot upgrades unlock between sessions and persist; investing early in tighter hitboxes pays back over hundreds of runs.
Boss waves reset some on-screen hazards but introduce bullet patterns. Holding shield charges for bosses is almost always correct — you'll trade a mid-run safety net for the chance to grind through a high-density section without dying.
- Chain near-misses for combo multipliers — the closer, the higher the bonus.
- Save shield power-ups for boss waves where bullet density spikes.
- In Escort Run, stay close to the cargo hauler for proximity score bonuses.
- What's the maximum score?
- Theoretical max is 999,999, but realistic ceilings are well below that — top leaderboard runs typically hit the high six figures by chaining Blitz scores with afterburner.
- Does difficulty scale or is the game procedural?
- Both. Density and speed scale with time, but spawn patterns are procedurally seeded so no two runs are identical.