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Velocity®Ultra cover art

Velocity®Ultra

Curve Studios · Curve Games · 2013-12-12

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 02, 2013 (PlayStation Vita), Dec 12, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 13, 2013 (PlayStation 3)

Velocity®Ultra is an award-winning top down shooter that puts you in control of the galaxy’s only Quarp Jet, an advanced spacecraft with the ability to teleport at will. Tasked with rescuing survivors from a collapsed black hole, you’ll need to use both firepower and quick-wits to catapult the Quarp Jet through 50 levels of sci-fi action.

0
playing now
75%
positive of 280 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Velocity is a 2012 shoot 'em up video game developed by British studio FuturLab for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita. It was released as a PlayStation mini. It was ported to Windows by Curve Studios. A sequel, Velocity 2X, was released in 2014.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 54% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 280 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.75 at IndieGala Store (2023-12-18) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 46 observed days · $9.24 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$0.852015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-03-27 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $1.992016-10-01 — best price $1.502017-06-01 — best price $4.842017-11-07 — best price $9.992017-12-26 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-05-04 — best price $9.992018-07-01 — best price $9.992018-08-22 — best price $2.492018-10-29 — best price $2.502019-01-04 — best price $8.392019-11-09 — best price $8.392020-03-02 — best price $1.502020-07-10 — best price $9.992020-09-21 — best price $9.992021-02-01 — best price $1.002021-03-25 — best price $1.502021-10-07 — best price $1.142022-04-21 — best price $1.002022-11-21 — best price $0.992023-03-25 — best price $1.002023-09-01 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $1.002025-11-24 — best price $9.992026-01-31 — best price $9.992026-03-30 — best price $9.992026-05-15 — best price $0.852026-06-18 — best price $1.002026-07-28 — best price $9.992026-08-28 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3062026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-02 — 8 pageviews2026-06-05 — 17 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-11 — 25 pageviews2026-06-14 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 13 pageviews2026-06-23 — 12 pageviews2026-06-26 — 16 pageviews2026-06-29 — 10 pageviews2026-07-02 — 18 pageviews2026-07-05 — 23 pageviews2026-07-08 — 26 pageviews2026-07-11 — 16 pageviews2026-07-14 — 9 pageviews2026-07-17 — 17 pageviews2026-07-20 — 13 pageviews2026-07-23 — 17 pageviews2026-07-26 — 13 pageviews2026-07-29 — 25 pageviews2026-08-01 — 19 pageviews2026-08-04 — 15 pageviews2026-08-07 — 15 pageviews2026-08-10 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 16 pageviews2026-08-16 — 8 pageviews2026-08-19 — 10 pageviews2026-08-22 — 13 pageviews2026-08-25 — 22 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only OptionSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

2DIndieActionPuzzleSci-fiShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerTop-Down ShooterFemale Protagonist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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