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Ramjet

Rex Ramjet, an out-of-work stunt pilot with a jetpack, takes on the alien landlords who came to collect Earth's rent.

  • Windows PC
  • Microsoft Store
  • Keyboard & mouse
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A downtown street at sunset: a brick laundromat marked Closed, owner evicted, the neon Barb's Diner sign, a Rent is due banner across the road and Rex's orange rivet pistol.
What you do

How it plays

  1. Jetpack over downtown: hold Space in the air to fly, then jet-stomp the landlords from above.
  2. Kick, blast and leaf-blow your way through the diner, the arcade and the Rent-A-Tower.
  3. Find the secrets, beat your time and earn an S on the tally at the end of each level.
Screenshots

In the game

  • A downtown street at sunset: a brick laundromat marked Closed, owner evicted, the neon Barb's Diner sign, a Rent is due banner across the road and Rex's orange rivet pistol. Downtown on rent day
  • Hovering high above the rooftops on the jetpack, the street and its shops far below and the jet gauge nearly empty against an orange sunset haze. Take to the sky with a jetpack
  • Inside Barb's Diner: red booths, a checkerboard floor and burger signs, a one-eyed green alien in a suit walking down the aisle, leaf blower in hand. Brunch with the landlords
  • A dark arcade with neon-trimmed cabinets and a confetti carpet, a green alien landlord in a suit standing between the machines. Neon arcade showdown
  • Uptown at night: a Now leasing: your old apartment billboard, a mattress on the lawn labelled Mattress firmly evicted, and an alien collector nearby. Bounce off the evicted mattresses
  • Looking up at The Gilded Lease tower, Luxury living, no humans, beside the Rent-controlled apartments (formerly), under a purple night sky. Uptown eviction notice
  • On a rooftop at dusk the towering top-hatted Landlord boss fills the screen, his health bar reading Furious, as Late Fee drones swarm overhead. Face the Landlord himself
  • The end-of-level tally for Downtown Rent Day: Rent paid! with time against par, kills, secrets and rivet accuracy, each marked NEW BEST. Rent paid!
Will it run?

System requirements

Ramjet system requirements
MinimumRecommendedBest
Operating systemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bitWindows 10 or 11, 64-bitWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Processor64-bit dual-core64-bit quad-core64-bit quad-core
Memory (RAM)4 GB8 GB8 GB
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (2 GB) classNVIDIA GTX 1660 / RTX 3050 (6 GB) classAny card from the recommended class up
Graphics APIVulkan or DirectX 12Vulkan or DirectX 12Vulkan or DirectX 12
Storage500 MB available space500 MB available space500 MB available space
Plays atLow preset, 1600×900, 60 fpsHigh preset, 1920×1080, 60 fpsHigh preset at 1440p or 4K

Ramjet is built to hold 60 fps at 1600×900 on Low on a GeForce GT 1030 (checked with the game's own frame-pacing test). Recommended is our estimate; we will confirm it before release. Memory: about 0.9 GB in use at High.

Graphics presets

Low
Renders at 67% scale (sharpened back up), FXAA, 2K sun shadows in 2 cascades out to 45 m, no ambient occlusion.
Medium
85% scale, 2K shadows in 4 cascades out to 80 m, ambient occlusion.
High
Full resolution, 4K shadows, finer ambient occlusion.

The game starts on Medium and drops to Low by itself if it runs under 50 fps. F2 changes it any time, and your choice is kept.

Controls

ActionKeyboard & mouse
MoveWASD / arrows
Jump; hold in the air to fly the jetpackSpace
Crouch; in the air, jet-stompC / Ctrl
Aim, fireMouse, left click / F
KickV
Use (vending machines, switches, arcade cabinets)E
Weapons1 2, wheel, Q
PauseEsc

Keyboard and mouse. Gamepad support is planned.

Compete

Leaderboards

Level times and challenge scores from linked PCs, under a name you choose. Boards are opt-in.

Ramjet leaderboards