• Installation (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Build (Windows)
• Build (macOS, Linux, BSD)

AstroMenace on YouTube, a video is worth a thousand words.

Immerse into a decisive battle against tons of cunning foes, face the terrifying bosses and protect your homeland throughout 15 diverse levels of the game. The hardcore gameplay of AstroMenace, packed with pure non-stop action, will become a full scale test for your basic instinct of survival.

The game provides a wide variety of armaments and weapon upgrades for discharging the retributive wrath upon the hordes of enemies, besides it has a great number of improvements for enhancing the defensive abilities of your spaceship. Collect money during the combat and invest them into turning your spaceship into an ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

More information and screenshots could be found at AstroMenace website.

Installer for Windows could be found in Releases.

Almost all popular Linux distros already have a stable version of the game in their repositories. Install the "astromenace" package with your distro's package manager. We do not provide packages for any Linux anymore, contact maintainers of your Linux distro.

sudo apt-get install astromenace

sudo zypper install astromenace

sudo yum install astromenace

sudo emerge astromenace

AstroMenace is also available as a FlatPak package from FlatHub.

• Install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org (follow step-by-step instruction on first page in order to install MSYS2)

For Windows 32bit build. Start MSYS2 > MSYS2 MINGW32 terminal session from Start menu. Install all necessary packages and download prebuilt dependencies:

cd ~/

pacman -S git unzip mingw-w64-i686-{toolchain,make,cmake,ninja}

wget https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace-windows-prebuilt-dependencies/releases/download/latest/prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit.zip

unzip ./prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit.zip

For Windows 64bit build. Start MSYS2 > MSYS2 MINGW64 terminal session from Start menu. Install all necessary packages and download prebuilt dependencies:

cd ~/

pacman -S git unzip mingw-w64-x86_64-{toolchain,make,cmake,ninja}

wget https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace-windows-prebuilt-dependencies/releases/download/latest/prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit.zip

unzip ./prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit.zip

• Clone git with latest source files

git clone https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace.git

• Compile game binary (game data file will be created automatically):

mkdir ~/astromenace/build

cd ~/astromenace/build

For Windows 32bit build:

cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDEPS_PATH=$PWD/../../prebuilt_dep_mingw_32bit

For Windows 64bit build:

cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDEPS_PATH=$PWD/../../prebuilt_dep_mingw_64bit

cmake --build . --target install

• Create desktop shortcut or start AstroMenace

~/astromenace/bin/astromenace

Note, in case of default MSYS2 path, all AstroMenace binary files will be stored into folder C:\msys64\home\user\astromenace\bin. You can copy this files into folder you want and remove MSYS2 from your system.

Build dependencies: libSDL2 (ver 2.0.5+), libopenal (ver 1.0+), libalut (ver 1.0+), libogg (ver 1.1+), libvorbis (ver 1.1+), freetype (ver 2.1.6+)

The easy way to get up to date AstroMenace on your computer:

gcc or clang or any compiler with full ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (C++11) support, cmake, make, git, libsdl2, libogg, libvorbis, openal, alut (freealut), freetype2

Download and install "Command Line Tools for Xcode" or "Xcode". Install HomeBrew package manager: https://brew.sh/

brew install ninja cmake sdl2 git libogg libvorbis freealut freetype

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake make ninja-build libsdl2-dev libogg-dev \
git libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libalut-dev libfreetype6-dev

sudo urpmi gcc-c++ ninja cmake make git libsdl2.0-devel libogg-devel \
libvorbis-devel libopenal-devel libfreealut-devel freetype2-devel

sudo zypper install gcc-c++ ninja cmake make libSDL2-devel libogg-devel \
git libvorbis-devel openal-soft-devel freealut-devel freetype2-devel

sudo yum install gcc-c++ cmake make git SDL2-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel \
ninja-build openal-soft-devel freealut-devel freetype-devel linux-libertine-fonts

sudo pkg_add -r -v gcc cmake git ninja sdl20 libogg libvorbis openal freealut freetype2

cd ~/

git clone https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace.git

mkdir ~/astromenace/build

cd ~/astromenace/build

cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

cmake --build . --target install

~/astromenace/bin/astromenace