Rocket X
Landing

Land the rocket on the glowing pad. Gravity pulls you down constantly and the rocket keeps its momentum, so plan ahead and brake early.

On a phone or tablet, hold the arrow pads to rotate and the big THRUST button to fire the engine. Use two thumbs: you can hold thrust and rotate at the same time, and slide a thumb between the two arrow pads. Left-handed? Swap sides in Settings.

A safe landing needs

• Both landing legs on the pad.
• Slow vertical speed (V-SPD) and almost no sideways drift (H-SPD).
• The rocket nearly upright (ANGLE) and not spinning.

Reading the HUD

• Readouts turn amber when they are outside landing limits and red when dangerous.
• The guidance square shows your velocity as a dot. Keep the dot inside the green box when you touch down.
• The green arrow at the screen edge points to the pad when it is off-screen.

Scoring

Campaign 2: strange worlds

From level 11 the worlds fight back: a drone ship rolling on the sea (speeds and tilt count against the moving deck — the HUD shows DECK values near it), water and lava that destroy the rocket, a cave roof, geysers that erupt on a timer, rising heat, a city of skyscrapers, a moving mining lift, an asteroid with almost no gravity, a storm at sea and the final Gauntlet. Keep an eye on the sky, too — something unusual visits now and then.

Campaign 3 (from level 21) is all about the landing itself: several pads to land on in order (touch down, then thrust to lift off for the next — the pad arrow always points at the next one), an ice floe you must hold still on for 3 seconds while it sinks and tips, a whale that dives, rising lava, a rocking seesaw, a shrinking pad, a landing in total darkness, a lift and a cable car, a tiny planet where down always points at its centre (the HUD then shows LOCAL values), and a collapsing station with falling debris — red ceiling lights flash just before a panel drops.

🛸 Invasion (its own button on the main menu) is a separate campaign: a flying saucer chases you. When a red aim line points at you it is about to fire its tractor beam where it expects you to be — change speed or direction and it misses. Caught in the green beam you are pulled toward the saucer; the ring around your rocket shows how close you are to being abducted. Rock and buildings block the beam, and the shield dome over the pad is always safe. Later saucers get nastier: they fire in quick bursts (red dots under the saucer show shots left), drag their beam after you, and rest less the longer you take — they glow red when angry.

Ghost racing

Race a see-through ghost flying a recorded run: your own best (works offline), the #1 pilot on the board, or anyone — tap Race next to their name on a leaderboard. Switch ghosts on the level intro with the 👻 button or G. The 👻 time on the HUD shows how far ahead (−) or behind (+) you are. Ghosts are for show: they can't touch you.

Hangar, credits and side thrusters

Every landing earns credits (more for first clears, new stars and harder difficulties). Spend them in the Hangar on new rockets — each with its own strengths — and on Side Thrusters, which push the rocket sideways without tilting (Q / E, or the purple pads on touch screens). Everything can also be bought to unlock it straight away.

Leaderboards come in two classes: Stock (standard Falcon, no upgrades — pure skill) and Open (any rocket and upgrades). Stock runs count on both.

Score comes from accuracy, a soft touchdown, attitude, remaining fuel and time. Land near the centre marker for a bullseye bonus. Earn up to three stars per mission.