Escape Velocity

About the Game

Blow your way out of a collapsing bomb factory in Escape Velocity, an explosive-based First Person Puzzler!

• Use sticky bombs, cannons, and modular fuses to fling yourself (and other stuff) across the wreckage of your old workplace

• Peek at your coworker's computers to find out more about their lives and the secrets that built the company

• Explore an alien industrial park and find hidden collectibles and puzzles to unlock a new ending

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PATCH NOTES!

UPDATE 4 (9/12/2025)

• Heads up: Settings have changed and your options and demo progress may have been reset. Sorry about that!

• Improved pick-up mode!! now you just have to hold "E" to pick up things, including things that are being flung at you

• Starter bombs now change color and produce effects when near a bomb-fuse to indicate contextual behavior (it's purple now)

• Fixed issue where player couldn't look up or down. Whoops.

• Fixed issue where "restore default settings" would set "invert Y" to "on".

• Fixed issue where player would receive a pick up prompt where a vaporized object formerly was.

UPDATE 3 (8/20/2025)

• OS cursor no longer shows on top of game cursor in various menus

• improved Starter behavior when near fuse-- player will no longer be launched if starter projectile is close enough to trigger fuse. Unless the fuse is behind a wall. Then you can launch fine.

• Level select screen!!!

• fixed (removed) "super jump" when spamming Starter

• Starter now launches more predictably when player is "below" projectile (IE on a ramp)

• Player now receives air control upon hitting a wall (this is useful)

• Audio settings should now more consistently persist between levels

• game save states of all sorts should now work a LOT more reliably now.

UPDATE 2

• Kickstarter banner removed. Thank you everyone!

• Added killplanes to bsp 2

• Added invisible walls to bsp 2

• Added skybox mountains to bsp 3

• Minor light improvements to bsp 3

• Added invisible walls to bsp 4

• Removed collision from decorator on bsp4

• Fixed game icon! yay

UPDATE 1

CHANGES:

• CONTROLLER SUPPORT! well, kinda. Like 75% of it. Menus are navigable, player is fully controllable, but terminals can't be scrolled and act weird if you jump between M&K and controller use.

• Button prompts are contextual now! If you're using a keyboard it shows keyboard prompts. If controller, controller prompts. Actual glyphs are pending

• Collision removed on wall decorators

• Probably a few other small tweaks I can't recall atm but most of this week was getting controller support working

Finally: THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR KICKSTARTER!!! We're 225% funded! Wow

It's still up for the rest of the week if you wanna donate! Link is in the game itself since steam kinda frowns on direct linking in descriptions.