You are racing against the clock. If time runs out, you die.


On most levels, you will run out of time if you do not use thrusters.

Thrusters are the key to Rage Runner. Set your key bindings and figure out which key this is because you need to use it all the time.

First, you need fuel. Pick these things up for afterburner fuel.


If you can see the side jets of the ship then you have fuel. Just hit the thrust button and the ship will lurch forward. While thrusting, try to follow the blue collectibles so that you keep your fuel topped off. This is called "the slipstream" and if you stay in it, you can use thrusters forever.

It's important to try feathering your thrusters when it's safe. So dodge an obstacle, hit thrusters, dodge another, hit thrusters. Try to sneak in as much thruster as possible!

Don't hit stuff with the front of the ship! This seems fairly obvious until you reach a point in the level where there's a roadblock, like Level 1. When you hit these roadblocks, you often need to turn to your special abilities to pass them. But sometimes you just need to tilt the ship!

Look at your keybinds again and find your "Vertical" button. Holding this button flips your ship vertically so that it can fit through narrow obstacles.

Powerups give you the ability to use your special abilities.

Besides thrusting and dodging, the ship has 4 special abilities. To use special abilities, you need to pick up a power module. One power module can be used to activate 1 special ability. The special abilities can be broken up into Offensive, Defensive and Utility.

Missiles
Fires a missile straight ahead. The missile will destroy a single obstacle in your path.

Shields
Puts a protective barrier around the ship that lets you survive a single collision. Shields can be stacked!

Super Brakes
Brings the ship to a full stop for 3 seconds. Brakes can be canceled by thrusting.

Super Thrusters
A 3 second super speed boost! Twice as faster as standard thrusters. Super brakes can be used to cancel super thrust early.