Afterburn: Rocket Lander

Afterburn is an endless rocket lander with a synthwave look. You fly with two thumbs and climb from one landing pad to the next, from the clouds up to the edge of deep space.

HOW TO PLAY
Hold the left or right side of the screen to fire that thruster. Fire both to climb straight up, or favor one side to steer. Touch down slowly and upright to bank points and refuel for the next pad. Come in too fast, too tilted or on your side, and you crash.

REAL PHYSICS
Your rocket is a physics body. It tips, drifts and bounces the way an actual craft would, and every landing, crash and wobble comes out of the simulation.

THE CLIMB
Pads shrink and spread out the higher you go. Past a certain height they start drifting, first side to side and then in slow circles. Fuel runs out: land cleanly to refuel, or run dry and coast on momentum, hoping it carries you to the next pad.

TWO MODES
• Ranked: the classic climb, and the mode that counts for the leaderboards.
• Beginner: lighter gravity, a smaller ship, gentler handling and more forgiving landings, for learning the controls.

THE SKY
You start among parallax clouds and distant mountains, pass a synthwave sun on the horizon, and rise into a starfield with comets, drifting planets and a distant galaxy. The backdrop is one continuous scene and never repeats.

LEADERBOARDS
Every pad is worth 1,000 points, plus up to 1,000 more for the fuel left in your tank. Ranked runs post to five leaderboards at once: your city, region, country, continent and the world. You can compare scores with your Play Games friends, look up any city's rankings, and turn on Rival Alerts to hear when someone passes you in your city.

HANGAR
Playing unlocks 5 ship hulls, each with its own color schemes, and 6 thruster flames. You earn them by reaching score milestones, landing pads, keeping a daily streak and more. Skins are cosmetic only: every ship flies the same, so the leaderboard stays fair.

STATS
The stats screen keeps your best run, lifetime totals and daily streak. Share a neon score card and dare your friends to beat it. If the app closes mid-run, you can resume from the last pad you landed on.

Recent changes:
Now plays full screen on tablets and foldables, in any orientation.
No signal? Your scores upload as soon as you're back online.
Plus performance improvements and fixes.