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Master time. Stop the Ooze. Outsmart a galactic infection in this high-speed, turn-based roguelike. Use your Chrono Shard to loop the timeline, leaving gear and upgrades for your future self. Craft your arsenal, evolve your skills into elite sub-classes, and turn every death into an advantage.

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Space Grunts: Chrono Shard Out Now!

Jun 22

Orangepixel's time-loop tactical retro shooter lands on Steam, merging high-stakes tactical depth with high-velocity retro-arcade energy into one galactic experience.

In Space Grunts: Chrono Shard, a sentient Ooze is devouring the galaxy, hopping through a hijacked network of deep-space HyperGates. As part of the Space Grunts’ elite tactical unit, players deploy into procedurally generated space stations and moon bases trapped in "time bubbles." To survive, players must harness the power of the Chrono Shard, a device that allows them to manipulate time, rewrite their past mistakes, and outmaneuver a dynamic galactic threat.

Space Grunts: Chrono Shard redefines turn-based tactical gameplay by abandoning slow-paced menu navigation in favor of immediate, rapid-fire strategy. The game introduces the Chrono Loop, a persistent time-travel mechanic where items placed, resources scavenged, or environmental changes made during a run remain in place for the next attempt. Players can strategically seed the battlefield with gear and traps, effectively collaborating with past versions of themselves to conquer the future.

Get it now and receive a 20% launch discount for a limited time!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3403540/Space_Grunts_Chrono_Shard/

Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

Question about the AI content disclosure.

Can the developer please explain what they mean by the "store banner" having been created using genAI?

david_parsons

Jul 2 @ 3:50am

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Post NEXT Fest Demo update

Mar 5

Hello Grunts, Pascal here!

I just pushed a new version of the DEMO after collecting feedback from Steam Next Fest and incorporating all the improvements that have been going into the Beta playtest sessions.

What changed:

Overall darkness has become a little brighter, also extended your view-circle so that in open rooms and area's you can see more of your surroundings.
Added a Brightness setting, check the options menu to access it. Allows you change the overal brightness of the game (great for Steam Deck players playing in sunny environments).
Teleporters, once activated, will stay activated during a Chrono Loop (time-reset). This removes some "grinding" feeling on larger levels, it also adds more interesting tactical choices in regards to which teleporter room you want to reach first - and it makes the most of your time-loop powers!
The Supply room will now contain a Craft desk 90% of the time, making that supply room even more interesting to reach before you die.

Besides those changes there have been a host of tiny bug fixes, improvements, and even a tiny performance boost for (really, really) old PC's and laptops.

So dive back into another run or two, and check out the improvements! Don't forget to tell me your ideas, suggestions and feature requests.

- Pascal / OrangePixel

Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

Dev Log: The Making of Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

Feb 12

Hello Grunts, Pascal here!

As we gear up for the upcoming Steam Next Fest, I wanted to share something special with those of you curious about what happens behind the scenes.

Over the course of development, I’ve documented the entire journey of creating Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. This video series serves as an archive of the challenges, breakthroughs, and work that went into bringing this game to life.

📺 Watch the Full Playlist Here[youtube.com]

From Oops, I started ANOTHER game project... again.

to I let players beta test my game... I wasn't ready for this!

What to Expect

Since the series covers most of the development cycle, you can look back at how the game evolved into the version you’ll be playing during the festival. The videos cover:

The Evolution of Mechanics: See how the core gameplay and the "Chrono Shard" systems made it into the game.
Design & Aesthetics: A look at the iterative process of creating the art, UI, and world-building.
Solo Dev Insights: Honest commentary on my technical process and the hurdles of being a solo developer.

Play the Demo during Steam Next Fest

I hope these videos give you a deeper appreciation for every pixel and line of code when you jump into the game during the festival.

I’d love to hear which part of the development process you found most interesting!

- Pascal / OrangePixel

Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

After first death, cannot control character anymore

I'm playing with controller on hard difficulty. After I died, the characters explain that we have the chrono shard which means we can go back and try again. So my character reappears but this time I cannot move or take any action at all. I tried mashing all controller and mouse/keyboard buttons. The controls overlay does not go away but it does change between controller/keyboard. The only thing I could do was bring up the ESC menu which I used to quit the game....