power ups (which enhance the ship's firepower), fuel canisters (which replenish the ship's fuel) and the energy pods that they must use in order to cause the reactors to overload. The players must use the ship's tractor beam to carefully guide the energy pods through the landscape and place them inside the reactors. Once enough pods have been placed inside, the reactor gets destroyed and the level ends. After each level, players are given a new password allowing them to restart the game from any level they want. Fly Harder also features customizable difficulty and gameplay settings. Players have the option to adjust the strength of the gravitational pull, as well as the aggression of the enemy A.I. Reception Fly Harder was met with polarized reviews from game critics. Amiga Power awarded the game with a score of 90%, calling it "the Thrust of the 90s". Their review praised the game's methodical gameplay and graphics, but warned the players about its steep learning curve by noticing that "it's practically impossible to play for the first hour or so". Amiga Format reached the same conclusion and gave the game a score of 87% arguing that "after the initial shock of crushing 40 times on the trot, Fly Harder becomes extremely addictive". The One Amiga gave it 83% and felt that the high difficulty was "to compensate for the fact that there are only eight levels". However, they praised the high replayability of the game describing Fly Harder as "the kind of game that you will come back to time and again". German publications panned the game for its high level of difficulty, with ASM describing it as "unplayable" and "a game for masochists", giving it a 0 out of 12. Amiga Joker felt that Fly Harder was a prettier but almost unplayable version "of an already outdated 8bit game" (referring to Thrust) and gave the game a score of 34%. Retrospectively, Den of Geek placed Fly Harder at number 21 in their 2019 article "50 Underrated Commodore Amiga Games". References 1993 video games Amiga games Amiga-only games Multidirectional shooters Science fiction video games Video games developed in Germany Krisalis Software games Single-player video games Starbyte Software games