Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition
Terminal Reality · 2023 · Action, Shooter, Old School, Sci-fi, Retro
PC
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About Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition
Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition runs the original Terminal Velocity natively on modern systems with the Infernal Engine, rendering the original graphics with an improved HUD for widescreen displays!
Climb back into the cockpit! Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition is a 360-degree combat flight simulator, featuring a variety of different planets to battle across and a high-powered weapon arsenal to aid you in all of the fast-paced action. In the far future, armadas from surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth. You are a pilot from the Ares Squadron, flying the fastest, most dangerous aircraft ever made. You’re outgunned, outmanned, and strapped inside a flying coffin. Are you ready?
Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition is more than your routine flight simulator, with combat as the main objective, and a straightforward control layout to thrust you right into the action! Explore nine unique planets, each with three levels, dozens of tunnels, and miles upon miles of terrain to fly over. To support you in battle, you’ll have access to seven destructive spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat scenarios.
Features
Climb back into the cockpit! Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition is a 360-degree combat flight simulator, featuring a variety of different planets to battle across and a high-powered weapon arsenal to aid you in all of the fast-paced action. In the far future, armadas from surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth. You are a pilot from the Ares Squadron, flying the fastest, most dangerous aircraft ever made. You’re outgunned, outmanned, and strapped inside a flying coffin. Are you ready?
Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition is more than your routine flight simulator, with combat as the main objective, and a straightforward control layout to thrust you right into the action! Explore nine unique planets, each with three levels, dozens of tunnels, and miles upon miles of terrain to fly over. To support you in battle, you’ll have access to seven destructive spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat scenarios.
Features
- Greatly extended draw distance lets you target enemies from further away while enjoying the sprawling view of the game's landscape
- Improved sky rendering code reduces polygon jitter
- Sound channels are now re-engineered to give you the full 360 effect intended by the original code with output on a modern audio system
- Achievements/Trophies are being implemented into the game for the first time! These challenges will truly test the mettle of all pilots.
- Fast-paced flight simulator with combat and a straightforward control layout.
- Nine (9) unique planets, with three (3) levels per planet, dozens of tunnels, and over 400,000 sq. miles of terrain.
- Seven (7) destructive weapons, multiple power-ups, and spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat.
- Enemy ships cast translucent shadows.
- Bank, roll, loop, and thrust bow-first into battles.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition for successfully modernizing the 1995 classic while preserving its arcade-style action gameplay, with appreciated updates like improved draw distance, widescreen support, and enhanced audio creating an accessible experience that still delivers straightforward, brain-off fun. The main complaint is minimal—one player found the gameplay unengaging enough to skip playing after watching a walkthrough, though most others celebrate the nostalgia and addictive combat loop of flying through alien worlds and destroying enemies with various weapons.
This is a high-octane blast from the past that perfectly preserves the soul of the 1995 cult classic whilst making it accessible for modern pilots. Running on the Infernal Engine, this updated version features a vastly extended draw distance that finally clears the "fog of war", allowing you to fully appreciate the sprawling alien landscapes of its 9 unique planets. The gameplay remains brilliantly straightforward: you bank, roll, and loop through massive 360-degree environments, utilizing 7 destructive weapons to engage in frantic air-to-air and air-to-ground combat. This Boosted Edition brings several welcome quality-of-life improvements, including native widescreen support, a cleaner HUD, and re-engineered sound channels for a full 360-degree audio effect. The inclusion of Achievements add a fresh layer of challenge, giving long-time fans a new reason to master the game's high-speed tunnels and intense boss fights. Whether you are a veteran of the DOS era or a newcomer looking for a "shut your brain off and have fun" arcade shooter, this edition offers a smooth, nostalgic trip that holds up surprisingly well in 2025. My only complaint is that "Tube Hunter" Acihevement is broke…1 found this helpful
A classic from the 90s. A great game to shut your brain off for a couple hours and unwind by flying a physics defying space fighter and blow stuff up.1 found this helpful
I didn't play, I watched a video walkthrough. I didn't feel like playing.
Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition is a modernized rerelease that preserves the essence of Terminal Reality’s 1995 arcade-style flight shooter while giving it enough technical updates to run comfortably on contemporary systems. Rather than reinventing the classic, the Boosted Edition serves as a faithful restoration—one that brings widescreen support, smoother performance, improved draw distances, and cleaner HUD elements without altering the original game’s fast, rebellious spirit. The premise remains delightfully straightforward: in the year 2704, Earth has been betrayed by its former allies, and you step into the cockpit of an advanced strike craft to battle across hostile worlds, dive through sprawling tunnel systems, and annihilate enemy forces with overwhelming firepower. It’s a pure power fantasy, framed in the energetic, no-nonsense style of 90s PC action games. The gameplay is built around speed, maneuverability, and explosive combat rather than simulation-heavy controls. Your ship moves with a fluidity that feels more like a weaponized camera than an aircraft—capable of banking, looping, strafing, and boosting at velocities that blur the horizon. Each mission places you…
This game is really exciting
Used to play this and Fury3 a lot on my old Packard Bell, this hits that sweet nostalgia hot spot and holds up so well (at least to me).
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