ThrustLander (2021)

- Developer
- Improbable Pixel
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Action, Casual, Indie
- Rating
- 5.0 of 5, 9 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 1.5 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
A focused, precision-based cave-flying experience that balances tense movement control with retro nostalgia and progressive difficulty.
precisetenseretro-inspiredchallengingarcade-stylefast-pacedupgrade-drivenphysics-based
What players say
Players praise ThrustLander as a faithful revival of 80s gravity shooters like Thrust and Gravitar. The controls are fluid and responsive, especially with mouse-only input, but the game gets quite hard later. Some wish for multiplayer and time-to-complete leaderboards.
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