Terminal Velocity (video game)

Terminal Velocity
Cover art
DeveloperTerminal Reality
Publishers
ProducerTom Hall
Designers
  • Mark Randel
  • Joseph Selinske
ProgrammerMark Randel
ComposerKyle Richards
EnginePhotex
PlatformsDOS, Mac OS, Windows 95, Android, iOS, Windows 10
Release
GenreFirst-person shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Terminal Velocity is a 1995 shooter video game originally developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms for MS-DOS and Windows 95, and MacSoft for Mac OS. It is an action flight combat game, with simpler game controls and physics than flight simulators. It is known for its fast, high-energy action sequences, compared to flight simulators of the time.

The game received generally positive reviews. Critics often compared it to Descent and praised its graphics, although some were turned off by what they thought to be the gameplay's lack of depth. Terminal Reality also developed a similar game, Fury3, published that same year by Microsoft. It uses the same game engine and basic game mechanics, but was designed to run natively on the new Windows 95 operating system, leading it to be described as essentially the Windows version of Terminal Velocity.