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Luke Massaglia · Published by Luke Massaglia · Official site ↗
Positive — 90% positive (20 reviews) · 31 achievements
Last updated 30 Sept 2026
Bolide is an arcade roguelike where you survive waves in space to unlock new skills! Destroy rocks and survive challenging waves to earn skill points and use them to choose from a variety of skills. Pick from 40+ skills, allowing you to create lots of skill combinations!
Indie, Free To Play, Strategy, Casual · 2025 · More free games
Explore Bolide's vast skill tree as you dodge asteroids and conquer waves in an arcade-style roguelike. With over 40 unique skills to master, the strategic choices are endless.
About this game
Bolide is an arcade roguelike where you survive waves in space to unlock new skills! Completing waves earns you skill points, which are spent on a variety of skills! With tons possible skill combinations, 40+ skills, 10 modes, 500+ customization options, lots of modifiers, and more, every game will be unique!
40+ Unique Skills! Create new skill combinations every game! The possibilities are endless!
10 Unique Game Modes! Including Hardcore, Limited Ammo, Time Attack, Collector, and more, there's something for every mood. Plus, customize gameplay with modifiers, so it's as easy or hard as you'd like.
Over 500 Customization Options! Unlock new animated ships and customize your ship's color and supercharged status. Also, unlock new bullets, customize bullets, and supercharge them!
Challenge Waves. Hard waves with unique modifiers that will make you want to rage. (These can be disabled in settings).
30+ Steam Achievements and 20+ Steam Stats! Go for the gold!
Fully customizable keybinds. You can even bind multiple (or all) controls to a single key.
Accessibility features including an option for a simplified font, the ability to disable challenge waves, and more, so everyone can enjoy Bolide.
Amazing music by the award-winning composer Andrew Piland.
Cloud Saves and more! Start Your Journey Today!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 x64
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 500 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card, integrated graphics
- Storage: 100 MB available space
- Additional Notes: 16:9 recommended
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Bolide Reaches 20,000+ Copies!
Hey everyone! All thanks to you, we've just reached a huge milestone. Over 20,000 Bolide copies have been claimed! This is an amazing accomplishment, and we are grateful to everyone who has supported us along the way. We can't wait to see what the future holds for us!Thanks for all that you do! This literally wouldn't have been possible without you! Start Your Journey Today!Read full article on Community Announcements (Skywalker)AnnouncementsOfficial
Bolide's 1 Year Anniversary!
It's Bolide's 1 year anniversary! Exactly one year ago, Bolide launched into this world as an arcade roguelike with limitless possibilities. It has been such a wonderful journey since! Over the past year, Bolide has provided countless hours of fun and limitless possibilities to hundreds of players across the globe. Bolide's Achievements Include:Millions of rocks destroyed!Billions of bullets fired!Thousands of hours spent destroying rocks and surviving waves!Tons of players on their journey!Players from many different countries across the globe!Positive User Review Rating!Hundreds of bug fixes and improvements!And more!Thank you for your support and a great year! It has been such an amazing journey thanks to you!Creating Bolide was an amazing journey for me, and I am glad that you enjoyed playing it!Start Your Journey Today!Read full article on Community Announcements (Skywalker)AnnouncementsOfficial
Play Bolide on Any Device!
Bolide can be played on a variety of devices, such as phones, tablets, and TVs, by using Steam Link.Play on Any Device - Steam Link:Bolide can be played on any device with Steam Link. Steam Link allows you to stream your Steam games onto any device from your own computer. All you have to do is download the Steam Link app to your device and set it up to play. While using Steam Link to stream Bolide, you will need to have your computer open and running Steam. You will probably need to connect either a keyboard and mouse or a controller to your device to play.Playing With a Keyboard and Mouse:To play with a keyboard and mouse, just connect them to the device you would like to stream Bolide on.Playing With a Controller - Steam Input Translation:To play with a controller, you can use Steam Input Translation. Steam Input Translation allows you to play games with a controller, by having the controls mimic the mouse and keyboard. In Bolide, you can use this feature to play with any controller of your choice!To set up Steam Input Translation, you'll need to connect a controller to your device (and configure it in the Steam Link app prior to streaming if necessary). Once you are streaming, you can enable Steam Input Translation by accessing your controller settings. We've found that the "Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse" layout is the best pre-made layout that works with Bolide. In this layout by default, the main controls include:The left joystick is the ship's movement (WASD). *The bottom action button is shoot (Space).The right joystick is the mouse pointer's movement.The right trigger and right joystick button are mouse click.Actions that aren't included above, like skill specific actions, can be bound to controls by either: Changing the Steam Input Translation layout (so those controls and keys match with the keybinds in Bolide),Or changing the keybinds in Bolide (so those keybinds match with the controls and keys for Steam Input Translation).You'll need to maneuver the mouse a...Read full article on Community Announcements (Skywalker)AnnouncementsOfficial
Bolide is Free to Play!
Start Your Journey Today for Free! Bolide has become free to play, so everyone can enjoy it! Choose from 40+ unique skills, 10 modes, 500+ customization options, and more, all for free! Original owners of Bolide have had the ability to access exclusive deals prior to Bolide becoming free. Thanks for your support! Start Your Journey Today!Read full article on Community Announcements (Skywalker)Patch NotesOfficial
Bolide Version 2.2 Patch Notes
We've been playing Bolide for a while since launch, and we've come across a few bugs and issues that we wanted to fix. The default modifiers button now properly saves the changed Double Skill Points and Respawns Available modifier if a game of Hardcore or Quick Play is played after clicking it The Play Challenge Waves setting is now set to off for new users The amount of shuffles available per game has increased from 2 to 5 Made minor text improvements and other improvements Thanks for playing Bolide!Read full article on Community Announcements (Skywalker)
