Guide your craft through short, punishing levels to reach the exit while dodging obstacles and enemies. Newtonian physics rule every move, with a basic thruster countering shifting gravity, atmospheric drag, and high-speed crashes. Variables like gravity strength, drag levels, thruster power, fuel limits, and hull durability change per level, demanding precise control or quick reflexes.
Instant restarts with no lives or loading times let you retry endlessly, even with a deliberate suicide option. This indie action game blends deliberate planning and rapid reactions across wildly varied challenges. Precision platformer fans who relish tight physics and brutal retries will keep coming back.
Picture a mash-up of Super Meat Boy and Lunar Lander. Or N+ meets Asteroids. That’s Impulse.
The premise is simple. You need to guide your craft to the exit point of each level, avoiding the various obstacles and bad guys.
Levels are short, sometimes brutal affairs. There are no life limits, retry as many times as you need. Restarting a level is instant. There’s no waiting or loading — one moment you’re dead, a click of the mouse later and you’re ready to try again. You can even suicide so you don’t have to wait for death when you know you’ve fouled up.
Your craft is at the whim of Newtonian physics. With only a simple thruster you need to battle the forces of gravity and atmospheric drag all while avoiding high-speed impact. The trouble is that all these variables are liable to change with each level. Gravity could be strong, or weak, or zero; it may pull in any direction. Drag might mirror the vacuum of space or the ocean depths. Your craft’s thrusters might be strong or weak. You might have limited or limitless fuel. Your hull might laugh off high-speed impacts or it might shatter from the slightest bump.
With all these variables, levels take on very different feels. Some require careful thinking and gentle, deliberate action. Others are all about reflexes and reaction. Most are a mixture of both.
