Faceted Flight Demo

Faceted Flight is an arcade-style flight game developed and published by a company named The Department of Silly Stuff.

You might think that arcade flight sims should be a genre with a ton of games, but it turns out that there are very few of them. Most developers usually choose to build proper flight simulators, with physics that mimics real life, so we don’t get many games that don’t require people to learn how to actually fly a plane. Things change significantly with space sim, where the vast majority of them only follow arcade rules.

Faceted Flight sits somewhere in the middle, which means that you will be able to play it without much training, but mastering it will require a little of bit effort. That’s usually what happens when you have a more advanced physics model in the game; the user-friendly maneuvers goes out the window.

Since Faceted Flight is only a demo, it means that not all of the features are available, but players should be able to gather from the available gameplay how this game would look in its final form.

The demo only features two available modes, exploration, and a race through rings, so there is not AI involved, and you won’t be racing anyone, but your own time. The first thing that you will notice is the graphics, which also inspires the name or maybe is the other way around. In any case, you won’t need a really powerful computer in order to play it.

Even if the control scheme for Faceted Flight is that of an arcade game, the ship has mass, and it acts like it. This means that if you accelerate fast enough, to get a good time, you’re going to miss the gates. There are no brakes for the ship, so you will have to anticipate what’s happening and adjust accordingly.

The ship will enter some sort of a drift mode, especially if you pull fast in one direction or the other, so getting through as many rings as possible is a matter of knowing just how fast to go and not the fastest possible.

Faceted Flight is a pleasant experience with great potential.