Critical Mass cover art

Game dossier

Critical Mass

Available now

Arcade shooter through hostile solar-system colonies

The briefing

About this game

In Critical Mass, mankind’s colonies across the solar system face an alien threat. Pilot a hovering craft eastward through hostile routes filled with aliens and mines, using limited laser and shield strength carefully.

Destroy guarded force-field gates and reach the interiors of power plants before their tractor beams pull your craft into the core. If you are shot down, continue with a jet pack and seek a bay where a replacement craft can be obtained.

Game Details

  • Genre: Arcade, Shooter
  • Release: 1984
  • Developer: Durell Software Ltd., Simon Francis
  • Publisher: Durell Software
  • Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum