Cryaxion

About

Cryaxion casts you as a fledgling pilot trainee at a corporate academy in the 2051 asteroid belt. Your days involve navigating dense rock fields, completing 50+ missions ranging from cargo runs to combat drills, and managing trade routes between four space stations. The sim emphasizes spacecraft handling and mission variety, with optional VR support via Google Cardboard or Daydream. The environment blends functional sci-fi with focused gameplay, letting you upgrade skills and hardware as you progress. The game’s artificial asteroid fields and structured training zones stand out, offering a mix of slow-moving cargo missions and high-speed ring-field challenges. While the 2016 release date means it’s showing its age visually, its 4.2-star user rating on Google Play highlights its replay value for space sim fans. The single-player story lacks deep branching, but the practical approach to asteroid navigation and station interactions keeps the experience grounded and functional.

Storyline

You start in the main asteroid field. This is an artificially created asteroid field where asteroids have been tractored to form a planar field around the Alpha, Bravo, Gamma and Delta space stations for easier mining, trading and colonization. The Asteroid Belt is huge. Forming artificial fields with a high density of asteroids was a practical political decision in the year 2047 to enable colonization of the Belt. There are several artificial asteroid fields in the Belt. The main field and the ring field have been designated training zones where Ensign-level pilots may practice. The ring field is a smaller asteroid field that is suitable for high-speed training. In the center of the ring field is the blue Ring Station, which is a command station for research, training and habitats.