Thrust Legend
Peter Klauser · 2020 · Action, Arcade, 2D, Space, Retro
PC
Positive90% · 10
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About Thrust Legend
Thrust Legend is a modern remake of the classic game "Thrust" by Jeremy C. Smith from 1986.
Navigate your spaceship through the perilous caverns of increasingly hostile planets. Your mission is to lock-on to the enemy's power pod with your ship's tractor beam and escape the planet's gravity to space. Enemy defenses are automatically activated by your proximity. Enemy defenses are powered by a power station. Shooting the power station will temporarily stun all enemy defenses. Be careful, the power station can only take so much damage. Destroying the power station will cause an explosion, who's blast wave will engulf the entire planet. Escape the planet before the shock-wave destroys you. Use you ship's shield to protect against enemy projectiles and soft impacts with cavern walls. You cannot shoot and use the shield at the same time. Use the ship's fuel extractor above fuel canisters to refuel. If you run out of fuel, it's Game Over.
Once a planet has been reached, it is unlocked and you can practice or continue playing from this point on later. Extra bonus points are awarded for destroying power stations. Extra points and achievement stars are awarded for completing the mission under a certain amount of time, fuel and without losing a life.
Playing in "Legendary Mode" starts a play-through from the beginning in order to chase a high score.
This remake contains
This is a keyboard only game.
Navigate your spaceship through the perilous caverns of increasingly hostile planets. Your mission is to lock-on to the enemy's power pod with your ship's tractor beam and escape the planet's gravity to space. Enemy defenses are automatically activated by your proximity. Enemy defenses are powered by a power station. Shooting the power station will temporarily stun all enemy defenses. Be careful, the power station can only take so much damage. Destroying the power station will cause an explosion, who's blast wave will engulf the entire planet. Escape the planet before the shock-wave destroys you. Use you ship's shield to protect against enemy projectiles and soft impacts with cavern walls. You cannot shoot and use the shield at the same time. Use the ship's fuel extractor above fuel canisters to refuel. If you run out of fuel, it's Game Over.
Once a planet has been reached, it is unlocked and you can practice or continue playing from this point on later. Extra bonus points are awarded for destroying power stations. Extra points and achievement stars are awarded for completing the mission under a certain amount of time, fuel and without losing a life.
Playing in "Legendary Mode" starts a play-through from the beginning in order to chase a high score.
This remake contains
- 6 original levels remastered and juiced!
- 5 original reverse gravity levels remastered as underwater levels.
- 6 completely new levels challenging your skills, and if that was not enough,
- 6 brutal levels originally designed by Martin Burchell in 1992 as a mod of the original BBC-B ROM.
- 6 underwater ( reverse gravity ) equivalents of the brutal levels. Simply ridiculous!
- The soundtrack is an original composition "Thrust Legend" by Matt Gray
This is a keyboard only game.
- Rotate Left - A
- Rotate Right - S or D
- Thrust - Shift
- Shoot - Return
- Tractor Beam / Fuel Extractor - Space
- Pause - P
- Quit - Escape
- Menu Navigation - Cursor Keys, Return, Escape
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A wonderful remake of the BBC Micro classic. It faithfully recreates the original planets whilst adding little more challenge in normal play and really forces you to use the shields alot more. The scoring system has also been improved. Childhood Nostalgia Peaks!3 found this helpful
Enjoying this a great deal. Thrust is probably one of the 100 greatest games every made and this is a worthy Thrust game, within the Thrust lineage. Pinback became the greatest player in the world at Thrust. We're all just gunning for second place.2 found this helpful
EDIT: Since I wrote this review I've spent dozens of more hours with it, achieved all the achievements, took the top spot on the global leaderboard, analyzed it to death, etc. I take back any hint of any misgivings in the below review. The new mechanics and control sensitivities are all absolutely perfect. The new levels are a serious challenge, but not remotely impossible. This is the best arcade game on Steam. ----- Original Review ----- A fitting tribute to a 40-year-old masterpiece. I only recently discovered the original BBC Micro game "Thrust", on an emulator site that still plays is perfectly well. I fell in love, and then immediately came over here on a Steam friend's glowing recommendation (yo, RB!) It includes the original six levels, each of which has been given a fresh coat of paint. The original's "reverse gravity" levels have been replaced by "underwater" levels, which are an amusing and well done re-introduction of the same mechanic. There are a few design choices which may not sit well with everyone. Particularly, after shooting down an enemy cannon, pieces of it fall away, and the pieces are deadly to your ship, so the cannon can still get you after …1 found this helpful
Massive Retro goodness... I played the original Thrust to death on C64 and loved Gravitar on Atari 2600. Incredibly, this game is WAY better than the official Atari Gravitar Recharged. Works great on my Xbox 360 controller too. The zoom feature is cool and the music is not depressing like Gravitar Recharged and Pixel Junk Shooter. Finally a Thrust game worth putting the hours of practice into. LOVE IT!1 found this helpful
A great version of the BBC B game which I remember fondly.. Very challenging but certainly warrants just one more go..oh and cheap as chips1 found this helpful
Great remake of the classic Thrust, but I do have a couple of things I dont like. Would be nice to choose your control keys as I found that Z & X dont work, I had to use Z & Y (not good). I also felt that gravity was a little too quick to react on the ship, other than that, nice game :)
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