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Blue-Collar Astronaut

Arcade space-physics meets your student loans. Blue-Collar Astronaut literally and figuratively explores upwards mobility on your way to the All-American Space-Dream.

60 14 March 2017

Blue-Collar Astronaut is an arcade developed by Mutated Software, released 14 March 2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U and Xbox One.

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What Blue-Collar Astronaut is

Blue-Collar Astronaut is an arcade game developed by Mutated Software and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Arcade space-physics meets your student loans. Blue-Collar Astronaut literally and figuratively explores upwards mobility on your way to the All-American Space-Dream.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Blue-Collar Astronaut holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Blue-Collar Astronaut launched on 14 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Blue-Collar Astronaut — frequently asked questions

When did Blue-Collar Astronaut come out?
Blue-Collar Astronaut was released on 14 March 2017 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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