Belt Zero: The Long Drift

You are stranded. Your jump went wrong, your ship is a wreck, and the only thing still connecting you to the rest of the galaxy is a drill that somehow still runs. Belt Zero is a space idle game that carries you from a crippled one-man miner to an empire of stations, colonies and trade fleets. It keeps running while you are away. Exactly as it would have run with you. Almost everything is broken at the start. The cargo airlock is jammed — you cannot sell a thing.

The engine is dead — you cannot even reach the next ore. Workbench, drone bay, navigation core, onboard computer: all of it dark. Every part is repaired with ore you mine yourself. And every part that comes back online opens up a piece of the game: first selling, then travel, then drones, then modules. You unlock your own game step by step, out of what you pull from the rock. No click counter, no progress bar that eventually fills up.

The drill works continuously and knocks chunks off the asteroid that drift freely in space. Only what you collect counts. Tractor beam — hold a key, pull chunks in. Free, always available. Collector drones — five tiers, gathering chunks automatically. Offline too. Quality tiers — every chunk is rolled: Common through Flawless. Drill depth D1–D10 — the deeper you go, the more valuable the ore and the hungrier the drill.…