

Impulse Response
RubyRPG · 2026 · Adventure, Psychological Horror, Puzzle, Atmospheric, Space
PC
Positive81% · 21
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About Impulse Response
Waking up, you find yourself alone in the darkness.To uncover the truth, use echolocation and your wits to solve the puzzles and find out what happened to your crew.Impulse Response is a first person, audio only adventure game with zero visuals designed to be 100% accessible for blind and low vision players.Send out audio pulses and pay close attention to the sounds of the ship to map out your surroundings and make your way through the eerie corridors.
As an engineer, you must figure out how to fix the failing systems to work out what went wrong while you slept.
■ Fully blind accessible
■ Headphones required to fully experience the spatial audio
■ 1-2 hours playtime
■ Voice acting by Jennissary and Brogan Farr
■ Music and SFX by Manadrop
Winner of Games for Blind Gamers 5 Game Jam
As an engineer, you must figure out how to fix the failing systems to work out what went wrong while you slept.
■ Fully blind accessible
■ Headphones required to fully experience the spatial audio
■ 1-2 hours playtime
■ Voice acting by Jennissary and Brogan Farr
■ Music and SFX by Manadrop
Winner of Games for Blind Gamers 5 Game Jam
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
One of the very few audiogames I enjoyed. The game was incredible, would recommend to everyone.3 found this helpful
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long …2 found this helpful
Very interesting to play through with one genuinely hard last puzzle. Navigating is obviously difficult and unlike anything I've played before but it was cool to experience1 found this helpful
i cant see anything1 found this helpful
Such unique game but the end puzzle omg, HATE IT, 10/10, keep the hard work!1 found this helpful
I loved the concept, but the execution just doesn't work imo. I was using galaxy earbuds, which have excellent noise cancellation and 360 audio. They're not much good if you don't know what sound you're listening for (the only instructions were "find the terminal" and then multiple beeping noises), and there's a constant humming noise (like horror music?) that can't be turned off. The "echolocation" is tapping your foot so you know if you're facing a wall or not, which isn't as helpful as it seems when there's no way to even know how fast your character is turning. Occasionally in stumbling around, a voice would say "terminal" and I'd start spinning in a circle, spamming the action button to no avail. At least I'd have hands to feel around in real life.
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