Planet Protector Unblocked
Shoot the landers, catch the falling, and never let the planet run out of people.
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What is Planet Protector?
Planet Protector is a side-scrolling space shooter set over a planet that loops endlessly. You fly a small fighter, shooting alien landers that try to carry off the ten humans on the ground and catching people who fall when their captor is destroyed. Waves get harder, and the game ends when you lose your last ship.
- Category
- Action Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Phone, tablet & desktop
- Input
- Keyboard, Touch, Gamepad
- Made by
- Frank Force
- Checked
Planet Protector is a side-scrolling shooter where saving people matters more than blasting aliens. Ten tiny humans stroll across a green, hilly world that wraps around forever, and landers keep dropping from the sky to snatch them. Let one escape to the top with a captive and it becomes a mutant, faster and meaner than before. Your small fighter carries a rapid laser, a handful of smart bombs and a hyperspace jump that might save you or might not. Frank Force built it with LittleJS, and it plays unblocked on keyboard, controller or touch.
Your Job on Patrol
Fly left and right across the planet and stop the landers before they grab anyone. A radar strip at the top shows the entire world, humans and enemies included, so you can see trouble long before it is on screen.
When you destroy a lander that is holding a person, you get 500 points and the human starts to drop. From high up, the fall is deadly unless you fly underneath and catch them. Set them down safely on the ground for another 500. A person dropped from near the ground lands fine without your help.
How Waves Work
A wave ends once every lander and mutant is gone. Each surviving human then pays 100 times the wave number, so protecting people boosts your score as well as your planet.
New enemies join as you go. Wave 2 adds slow purple drifters that split into four little chasers when shot. Wave 3 brings bombers that leave mines hanging in the air. Take too long on any wave and a fast white hunter comes after you.
Touching an enemy, a mine or a bullet costs a ship. You have three to start, and losing the last ends the game. If every human is lost, the planet explodes and you face three mutant-only waves before it is rebuilt.
Planet Protector controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steer the fighter | Arrow keys or W A S D | — | Pad on the left side |
| Shoot the laser (hold for rapid fire) | Z or Space | — | Button cluster on the right |
| Set off a smart bomb | X | — | Button cluster on the right |
| Jump through hyperspace | C | — | Button cluster on the right |
| Pause | Esc | Menu icon in the top right | Menu icon in the top right |
Pilot’s Notes
Check the radar constantly. Landers close to the ground are about to abduct someone. Those are your priority, wherever they are.
Intercept on the way down. A lander shot before it reaches a human saves you a rescue entirely.
Stay low for catches. Flying close to the surface puts you in position to catch falling people and return them quickly.
Turn to cover your back. The laser only fires forward, so a quick tap the other way lets you hit something chasing you.
Bomb the swarms. A smart bomb clears every enemy and bullet on screen, ideal when a purple drifter has just split into chasers.
Do not dawdle. The longer a wave lasts, the more white hunters join in.
Why It Feels Different
Most space shooters only ask you to destroy things. Planet Protector makes you juggle offense and rescue across a whole looping world, which keeps every second busy. If you want more classic space action, try Rock Blaster or guard cities from the ground in City Shield.
Planet Protector: questions players ask
What happens if a lander carries someone away?
If a lander reaches the top of the screen with a human, it turns into a mutant, which is faster and more aggressive. Shooting a lander before then makes the person fall, and you can catch them for bonus points.
What if all ten humans are gone?
The planet explodes and every remaining lander becomes a mutant. You then fight three waves of nothing but mutants. Survive those and the planet comes back with ten new people to protect.
Should I use hyperspace in Planet Protector?
Only in emergencies. It drops you somewhere random with a brief shield, but roughly one jump in seven blows up your ship. A smart bomb is usually the safer escape.
How do I earn extra lives and bombs?
Every 10,000 points adds one ship and one smart bomb together. You begin each game with three ships and three bombs.
Credits and license
Planet Protector was created by Frank Force and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/KilledByAPixel (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (ships, aliens and terrain drawn in code; sounds generated in code)
- Our changes: Its original name was Protector. We renamed it, reworded a single help line and placed the engine files in the game folder. It plays the same as before.
