LunaticFling
Newtonian space combat in a new sector every day. No friction, a relativistic speed limit, and a ship that falls apart one piece at a time.
Free for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
No ads, no tracking.
lunatic fling noun
- Hurling a small spaceship at something much bigger than it, on purpose.
- A brief, reckless affair with a black hole.
- Moon madness, from the Latin luna. Symptoms include orbiting things for fun.
Every push lasts forever
There's no friction out here. Thrust and you keep going, in that direction, until you thrust the other way.
- Momentum is the whole game. Point one way, drift another, and fire over your shoulder while you coast past.
- The engine spools up. A tap nudges, a long burn throws you across the sector.
- Relativity is enforced. The closer you get to the speed limit, the less each push adds. You can't outrun light, only approach it.
- The sector wraps around. Fly off one edge and you're back on the other, and so is whatever you shot.
Built from parts. Held together by hope.
Hits land where they strike. Take enough in one spot and that part tears off, and the ship flies differently without it.
Wings
Your turning thrusters live here. Lose one and the engine pushes off-center, dragging the nose toward the wing you still have.
Canopy
Cracks scramble your scanner, so things flicker out of sight. Shatter it and there's no ejecting.
Tail fin
It damps the spin. Without it, every turn keeps on turning. Dent it and it can jam, yawing you all on its own.
Nozzle
Lose it and you're down to under half the thrust, with a shaky heading. Damage it and it overheats. Push it anyway and the engine flames out.
Nothing's gone for good. Limp home to the harbor and it bolts the missing pieces back on.
What breaks off keeps flying
Torn wings, shattered enemies and split asteroids all become real wreckage, with their own mass and momentum. Hit a chunk fast and it hurts. Knock one into an enemy and you've started a chain reaction.
Enemy wreckage glints gold. Match its speed and you scoop it up as scrap. Come in hot and it's just one more thing hitting you.
The harbor
Drift close and its tractor field reels you in. Dock to refuel, repair, refit lost parts and spend scrap in the shop. The enemies don't wait for your pit stop.
The hive
It launches every wave and shoots back. Crack it open for a hoard of weapons, always including the legendary Sunbreaker.
What's out there
The hive launches them in waves, more of them and faster every level. Destroy a wave to reach the next. Points are before your combo.
Tetrapod 50 pts
From level 1. A spinning turret: fires when a barrel lines up with you. Shoot barrels off to thin its fire.
Blotch 50 pts
From level 1. Fragile, but it breeds spores every few seconds. Get it early.
Spore 2 pts
Bred by Blotches. Tiny and weak, but they home in on you in swarms.
Gasbag 40 pts
From level 1. Swells up as it charges, then spits a big gas blob. Tough to pop.
Maceback 100 pts
From level 2. Grows a spiked mace and hurls it when you're lined up, then grows another.
Buzzsaw 100 pts
From level 3, more of them each level. A heavy spinning blade that rams you head-on.
The Hive 2,500 × MK
Always there. Launches every wave and shoots when you're close. Break it for its hoard; a tougher one forms 30 seconds later.
Today's Sector
Once a day, the whole planet gets the same sky. Same suns, same planets, same waves. You get one shot at it.
Every dayNew sector in at 00:00 UTC
An example sector
THE TEAL DRIFT
- Ringed giant
- Black hole
- Asteroid field
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A new sky at midnight UTC
The date picks the sector: its name, suns, planets, nebula and asteroid fields, and some days a black hole. Everyone on Earth gets the same one at the same moment.
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Your first launch is the one that counts
Tap Today's Sector on the title screen. You get one run a day, locked in the moment you launch. For unlimited flying, tap Play for a random sector.
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Share the damage
When the run ends, share a result line: score, level, your best chain, and one square per level, so your friends can see exactly where it went wrong.
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See where you stand
With the Pilot's License, your score goes on the global daily leaderboard in Game Center, next to everyone who flew the same sky. Tomorrow: a new sector and a clean board.
Slingshot it. Orbit it. Try not to touch it.
Nearly half of all sectors have a black hole. Its gravity pulls on everything: you, the enemies, the wreckage, even your shots. Dive past it to slingshot beyond the speed limit, or settle into an orbit and let it do the flying.
Get too close and you get spaghettified: the tides pull your wings and fin off, a piece at a time. Cross the horizon and that's the run. Nobody ejects from in there.
Straight from the game
Real screenshots on iPhone and iPad. Portrait or landscape, one thumb or two.
On the Mac too
The same game, built for the Mac, on the same App Store page.
- Keys under your fingers. Arrows to fly, Space to fire, Shift for shields. A game controller works too.
- Any size you like. Full screen, or a window of any shape.
- Buy once. The Pilot's License and your Game Center scores carry over between iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Also on board
Free to fly. $4.99 to show off.
Lunatic Fling is free: the whole game, every daily sector and the share line, with your scores kept on your device.
The Pilot's License is one $4.99 in-app purchase. It puts you on the global Game Center leaderboards, daily and all-time, and unlocks seven paint schemes for your ship. Because looks matter. Buy it once and it's yours for good, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, wherever you're signed in to your Apple Account.
- No ads
- No subscriptions
- No tracking
- No accounts
Price in U.S. dollars. The App Store shows the price where you live.
- Holder
- You
- Class
- Lunatic
- Grants
- Global leaderboards, paint schemes
- Fee
- $4.99, once
- Expires
- Never
Go on. Fling it.
Free for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later, or macOS 15 or later on a Mac with Apple silicon.