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TUNNELRAT

TUNNELRAT is a procedural mine crawler in the spirit of Descent. Fly in any direction, roll through the tunnels, find a keycard and get the door open.

TUNNELRAT is a procedural mine crawler in the spirit of Descent. Fly in any direction, roll through the tunnels, find a keycard and get the door open. Then destroy the reactor and get out before it blows. After that, there’s another mine below you.

The missions start as a graph, then get carved into marching-cubes caves. The same density field handles the visible level, collision and enemy line of sight. So the cave you’re flying through is also what the enemies are using to decide whether they can see you.

WASD and R/F move the ship, Q/E rolls it, and there’s an Xbox controller layout too. You can switch to a chase camera if you want to see the ship. Die, and the burned wreck and XP orbs stay where you fell.

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