Impulse Response
Engineer Cadence Quinn wakes from cryo sleep to blaring alarms. What happened to the crew? What's wrong with the ship? Use echolocation to navigate the darkness, solve the puzzles and uncover the mystery... A first person, blind accessible audio only experience.
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Waking up, you find yourself alone in the darkness.
To uncover the truth, use echolocation and your wits to solve the puzzles and find out what happened to your crew.
Impulse Response is a first person, audio only adventure game with zero visuals designed to be 100% accessible for blind and low vision players.
Send out audio pulses and pay close attention to the sounds of the ship to map out your surroundings and make your way through the eerie corridors.
As an engineer, you must figure out how to fix the failing systems to work out what went wrong while you slept.
■ Fully blind accessible
■ Headphones required to fully experience the spatial audio
■ 1-2 hours playtime
■ Voice acting by Jennissary and Brogan Farr
■ Music and SFX by Manadrop
Winner of Games for Blind Gamers 5 Game Jam 
