Cyberpulse

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Released: May 21, 2024
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 20:20 GMT

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14 Jun 2026Developer post
Thank you — as BULLET FEST comes to a close
Hey everyone, As Bullet Fest comes to an end, we just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who picked up Cyberpulse during the event. Your support means the world to us and to Gabriel, the solo dev who poured years of work into making this game a reality. Cyberpul
18 Dec 2025Developer post
World Record Footage!
Steam player Dan-o has uploaded all of his world record runs to this youtube playlist . As of writing this message, these videos capture the top leaderboard score on every level featured. If you would like to see the most elite Cyberpulse gameplay in the world —to improve your ow
08 Dec 2025Developer post
Engine Update and Fixes
Primarily driven by Unity upgrading older versions of their engine, I've taken the time to implement the following: Engine Update The version of Unity that Cyberpulse runs has been updated to a release that addresses a potential security vulnerability. This vulnerability was pros
Primarily driven by Unity upgrading older versions of their engine, I've taken the time to implement the following:
Engine Update

The version of Unity that Cyberpulse runs has been updated to a release that addresses a potential security vulnerability. This vulnerability was prospective—not something known to have caused actual issues—and almost certainly did not affect any Cyberpulse players. That said, always good to keep software up-to-date. If curious, you can read more here.
Fixes

The sector Citadel has had a fix to its late enemy waves so there are no issues with spawning.
Maps with circular layouts have had extra colliders added to the boundary to help stop enemies from (rarely) tunnelling when thrown at high speeds.
An uncommon hang that could occur during the final score tally due to floating point issues has been eliminated.
Thank you for playing Cyberpulse! 👾
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30 Jun 2025Developer post
Tiny Patch 1.72
Fixes Hourglass-shaped maps now have extra colliders at the corners to avoid thrown enemies slipping through them. This addresses the occasional spawning issue that could happen on the late-game level Rejection . Small typo fixed in the Logs (bestiary). PS: If you've enjoyed Cybe
Fixes

Hourglass-shaped maps now have extra colliders at the corners to avoid thrown enemies slipping through them. This addresses the occasional spawning issue that could happen on the late-game level Rejection.
Small typo fixed in the Logs (bestiary).
PS: If you've enjoyed Cyberpulse, consider joining the Discord server! It has been fun and lively since it began last week. 😃
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29 Jun 2025Developer post
Tiny Patch 1.71
Fixes Fixed the “Time Played” stat in the Stats page not recording correctly in certain situations. For many who began prior to this patch, your playtime on Steam will be more accurate. Lowered the travel speed of one link in the world map that was a little too fast for the camer
Fixes

Fixed the “Time Played” stat in the Stats page not recording correctly in certain situations. For many who began prior to this patch, your playtime on Steam will be more accurate.
Lowered the travel speed of one link in the world map that was a little too fast for the camera.
Improvements

To help gameplay clarity, bytes and their trails have had their brightness reduced by 2%.
Two levels, Apogee III and Clash II, have had their score goals adjusted to balance their challenge for where they are in the campaign.
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27 Jun 2025Developer post
Join the Discord!
I've created a small Discord sever for Cyberpulse: For those who would like to chat about the game, ask questions, report experiences, or just talk about their high scores. We already have a few world record videos posted! 😃 If you've enjoyed Cyberpulse and would have fun talkin
25 Jun 2025Developer post
Cyberpulse Update 1.7
Some more enhancements, fixes, and polish to help Cyberpulse run smoothly for all: Rebalancing The following levels have had their score targets reduced to aid campaign progression: Apogee III, Boolean, Clash II, Rebound, Riposte, Starfall, and Trifurcation. Co-op now has a 1% hi
Some more enhancements, fixes, and polish to help Cyberpulse run smoothly for all:
Rebalancing

The following levels have had their score targets reduced to aid campaign progression:Apogee III, Boolean, Clash II, Rebound, Riposte, Starfall, and Trifurcation.
Co-op now has a 1% higher camera, 1% more edge padding, and 1% larger player circles for ease of play.
Byte pickup flash dimmed by 10% to improve gameplay readability.
QoL Improvements

The cursor now locks to the window if you are playing with keyboard but is free to move when using a controller to work nicely with other apps.
The controls menus now shows all button choices for actions that have multiple choices, like how dash can be activated with either trigger.
Rewired, the game’s input system, has been updated to its most recent version to future-proof input issues.
On Survival levels in the world map, an ability must be equipped first before scrolling leaderboard pages to avoid sound effect clash.
The lowest two qualities now have lower mipmap limits to help performance on older hardware.
The desktop shortcut icon on Windows now has the correct resolution.
The app icon and name now displays accurately on the dock in MacOS.
Bugfixes

Green jelly enemies can no longer get stuck in tight corners.
Permanently fixed floating-point issues on certain versions of Linux that would subtly interfere with enemy movement.
The resolution setting in graphics now always displays the current resolution even if it is at a value that Unity can’t set.
A few of the large enemies have had their velocity trail particles fixed.
The story message for the spark collector has a small rewording for better visual spacing.
I also made a small Discord server—feel free to join if you'd like to chat about the game. Thank you for the interest and for playing Cyberpulse!
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29 May 2025Developer post
Steam Deck and Linux Launch Fix
The newest releases of SteamOS and Linux had an update to the glibc library that broke the edition of FMOD that Cyberpulse runs. This was causing the game to crash on startup on updated Steam Decks and Linux machines running the latest OS versions. Thankfully there was a way to m
23 May 2025Developer post
MacOS / Linux / Small Patch
Grenade bullets now have a slightly different look to help communicate they don't collide with the player on their own. The first phase of the first boss now shoots slower bullet clumps to help players who are still learning the boss mechanics. Resolution and fullscreen settings
Grenade bullets now have a slightly different look to help communicate they don't collide with the player on their own.
The first phase of the first boss now shoots slower bullet clumps to help players who are still learning the boss mechanics.
Resolution and fullscreen settings now appropriately interact and save between sessions on all OSes.
A recent build misconfiguration where content began unlocked, that only affected MacOS and Linux, has been fixed. Hopefully no one ran into this, but if it did affect you, my apologies and please drop me a thread on the forums so I can help you recover a normal save state.
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21 May 2025Developer post
Engine Update Patch
Cyberpulse now runs on the most recent version of Unity . This addressed some issues that were happening on cutting-edge machines and should generally improve stability going forward: Fixed boot up and splash screen problems on Apple Silicon chips running newer versions of macOS.
Cyberpulse now runs on the most recent version of Unity. This addressed some issues that were happening on cutting-edge machines and should generally improve stability going forward:

Fixed boot up and splash screen problems on Apple Silicon chips running newer versions of macOS.
Unity implemented a few improvements to the engine's scripting backend that should give a modest boost in performance on certain setups.
The Linux floating-point fix from the previous patch is now in all builds to help with future compatibility for differing CPU architectures.
These two levels had a small decrease in their initial score target to help player's progress: Citadel and Quickdraw.
Today is Cyberpulse's one year anniversary. Thank you everyone for the support and for playing Cyberpulse!
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21 May 2025Developer post
Linux Gameplay Patch
Fixed an issue where certain Linux versions , in combination with specific CPUs, were running into floating-point errors that were lightly messing with gameplay. Note that this may have affected some players on the Steam Deck. Specifically, exploding grenade bullets fired by some
25 Apr 2025Developer post
Balance Patch 1.65
Difficulty Tuning Many levels had their score goals slightly lowered to help players progress and to have aesthetically-pleasing targets. Most adjustments were small and don't deserve mention, but I will highlight a few that did get notable decreases for progression goals: Exacti
Difficulty Tuning

Many levels had their score goals slightly lowered to help players progress and to have aesthetically-pleasing targets. Most adjustments were small and don't deserve mention, but I will highlight a few that did get notable decreases for progression goals: Exaction, Flash, Ricochet, and Titanomachy.
Most all level score goals are well-balanced now, but if you like the game and are walled by a level, please mention it to me in the pinned thread on the discussion boards!
Grenade bullets no longer hit the player prior to exploding. Given grenades often follow sudden and non-linear movement curves to position right, it feels more fair for them not to hit the player.
I finished up some small boss tweaks to make a handful of fights a little easier:
1-B: Grenades now release two fewer bullets.
3-B: All grenades are now gravity arc grenades, which makes the fight a little easier and keeps the visuals cleaner.
6-B: The first form now shoots one fewer torus bullet in the Encrypter shots. Note that grenades no longer hitting the player is an important nerf for this boss as well.
Bugfixes

Addressed some edge cases where the leaderboard wouldn't respond to stick input, or still respond after it was actively closing.
Added bold to a few tooltips that were missing highlighting.
Centered some UI elements in the main menu options that were slightly off.
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20 Apr 2025Developer post
Cyberpulse Update 1.6
After receiving more great player feedback, I have implemented the following upgrades: QoL Improvements There are now sliders to adjust bloom and saturation in the graphics settings! These should help tune the visuals and gameplay for monitors where it may be too intense. There i
After receiving more great player feedback, I have implemented the following upgrades:
QoL Improvements

There are now sliders to adjust bloom and saturation in the graphics settings! These should help tune the visuals and gameplay for monitors where it may be too intense.
There is also a new slider to reduce screen shake in the gameplay settings, if you do not enjoy the added effect.
All ability power-ups get a tool tip, rather than just the first two, to help explain their mechanics and avoid player trial-and-error.
NOTE: These new tooltips apply to everyone—even if you have progressed far you will still have the them pop for the applicable power-ups. I apologize if this spends a charge poorly, but I had someone on the boards ask how Sword works after having finished the game, so I think best to leave the new tooltips fresh for all.
Boss Rebalance
Without changing score potential, so the leaderboards remain intact, I have made a number of early- and mid-game bosses a little easier:

1-B: The aimed clumps fired in the final phase are 15% slower.
2-B: The spraying gun in the first phase has 15% less bullet density.
3-B: The first phase has slower bullets and less density on the sniping shots. In the final phase, gravity slam is only triggered once you have taken out a limb. The grenades used throughout the fight fire more slowly and with less density.
5-B: Both patterns used by the turret limbs in the first phase have less density. The bullet patterns in the final phase fire more slowly and with one fewer bullet.
6-B: Both grenades used in the fight fire fewer bullets and in an easier to dodge pattern.
Tweaks and Fixes

In small ways, this list of levels have had their score goals adjusted to help players progress: Apogee I, Apogee II, Apogee III, Barcode, Binary, Boolean, Citadel, Clash I, Congruence, Convergence, Divergence, Flash, Gridlock, Haywire, Precision I, Quickdraw, Reboot, Rebound, Recompiler, Shockwave, Triangulation, and Trifurcation.
All settings in the main menu options now loop around correctly when navigating the lists.
Byte trails are 5% dimmer and blink 2.5% less when close to disappearing.
Fixed a rare null reference that could happen in world map if you rapidly moved around menus.
Thank you all for playing Cyberpulse!
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13 Apr 2025Developer post
Cyberpulse Update 1.5
This patch is dedicated to the player who recently reached 100% completion. 🔥 Difficulty Tuning This large batch of levels have had their score targets reduced to help players progress in the campaign: Apogee II, Apogee III, Binary, Citadel, Clash III, Congruence, Convergence, E
This patch is dedicated to the player who recently reached 100% completion. 🔥
Difficulty Tuning

This large batch of levels have had their score targets reduced to help players progress in the campaign: Apogee II, Apogee III, Binary, Citadel, Clash III, Congruence, Convergence, Evolution, Exaction, Flash, Gridlock, Haywire, Hello World, Maelstrom, Network, Powercell, Precision II, Reboot, Ricochet, Riposte, Riposte, Sinkhole, Triangulation, and Trifurcation.
Given these reductions, some people will now have new levels unlock upon opening the world map!
The late game boss with tentacles has had a few of his attack patterns nerfed after they were over-tuned.
Bugfixes

The player is now invincible upon landing the final hit on a boss, thus avoiding weird issues or frustration when dying after taking a boss down.
Your score is always sent to Steam leaderboards upon level completion, so if you previously had network issues you don’t need to beat your highscore to get a spot on the leaderboard.
The game now quits out after booting up if OS issues cause FMOD to fail initialization. If the game is failing to boot or getting stuck on startup—please check the pinned threads on the message boards or start a new one!
In co-op, if you don’t revive your teammate while boss results are playing their ship no longer lingers helplessly into the results screen.
Fixed edge case where rechargeable dash orbs could fail to correctly track how many rechargeable dashes you have.
Upon losing a shield, the player always gets bounced in a sensible direction.
The duration of the splash screen is one second longer on MacOS to match the other platforms.
Visual Balancing

Bytes are now 3% darker, flash 5% less when being picked up, are 5% dimmer when in larger groups, and are 1.5% fainter on boss levels.
Stationary photons are now 3% brighter.
The rectangular enemy bullet is now 5% brighter to help the revenge of Jelly enemies have more clarity against bytes.
Thank you all for the support and for playing Cyberpulse!
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06 Apr 2025Developer post
Tiny Patch 1.41
Improvements The splash screen now correctly does shader preloading when starting a new file. This helps avoid frame hitches on new enemy spawns when the game is first booted up. Bytes sent out by picking up a shield when you already have one are now equally dim to bytes from dam
Improvements

The splash screen now correctly does shader preloading when starting a new file. This helps avoid frame hitches on new enemy spawns when the game is first booted up.
Bytes sent out by picking up a shield when you already have one are now equally dim to bytes from damaging the boss.
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04 Apr 2025Developer post
Cyberpulse Update 1.4
The two-player campaign experience has received a few key improvements along with a grab bag of other fixes: Co-Op Improvements The camera is now 9% higher whenever you are playing co-op to help avoid gameplay feeling too herky-jerky. The camera also has 250% more zoom padding wh
The two-player campaign experience has received a few key improvements along with a grab bag of other fixes:
Co-Op Improvements

The camera is now 9% higher whenever you are playing co-op to help avoid gameplay feeling too herky-jerky.
The camera also has 250% more zoom padding when you move to opposite edges so each player can see far enough ahead and never gets covered by the HUD.
The sector Cubism now has better power-up placement with two players.
The sector Boolean now has easier score goals, primarily for co-op but it applies to single player as well.
Endgame bosses have had their shields fixed for co-op.
Visual Balancing

Boss limbs now put out dimmer bytes when they explode. This helps a lot with visibility when taking down bosses, especially those against reddish color schemes!
Bytes are now generally 3% dimmer to help refine gameplay clarity.
Bugfixes

The rival score in the bottom right has been fixed to correctly load on small leaderboards.
A boss that wields sabers has had one of his revenge patterns fixed after it was spinning too fast.
A tiny bit more padding adding to the pathing of jelly enemies to help them avoid getting stuck in tight corners.
Fixed potential looping sound effect when a Titan was killed by a player with the Invincibility power-up.
The splash screen now loads in dimmer initially due to recent changes with the game engine. Upon regular booting up (without the opening cut scene) you'll notice it now flashes brighter before the start screen comes in.
Thank you everyone for playing Cyberpulse!
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24 Mar 2025Developer post
Duplicate Controller Patch
Bugfixes I have implemented a small change to the controller assignment code to help people who have duplicate controller inputs still play single-player without having to debug their setup. If you run into any controller issues now please head to the pinned thread on the discuss
Bugfixes

I have implemented a small change to the controller assignment code to help people who have duplicate controller inputs still play single-player without having to debug their setup. If you run into any controller issues now please head to the pinned thread on the discussion board!
Tiny polish to animations relevant only for postgame.
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21 Mar 2025Developer post
Bugfix Patch 1.31
Bugfixes Menu windows now never miss their shrink animation. Fixed edge case where Jelly enemies could miss a bounce. Tiny fix to Arc container spawn location on Consequence . Stats page no longer shows names of levels that have been unlocked but not unsealed.
Bugfixes

Menu windows now never miss their shrink animation.
Fixed edge case where Jelly enemies could miss a bounce.
Tiny fix to Arc container spawn location on Consequence.
Stats page no longer shows names of levels that have been unlocked but not unsealed.
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20 Mar 2025Developer post
Cyberpulse Update 1.3
As a thank you to all the players who've posted feedback or voiced their enjoyment of the title, I have implemented the following improvements, score target changes, visual adjustments, and bugfixes: Improvements Per player request, when you restart a level it now begins half a s
As a thank you to all the players who've posted feedback or voiced their enjoyment of the title, I have implemented the following improvements, score target changes, visual adjustments, and bugfixes:
Improvements

Per player request, when you restart a level it now begins half a second faster!
You now see fewer tips on start when just replaying a single level.
Audio rewind for instant replay in Versus mode has been restored.
Some world map links now have nicer animations.
A few bosses have had their level pictures updated to look cooler.
All duel levels now have slightly better endings (without affecting score potential)
Level Score Target Tweaks

Ricochet targets lowered.
Riposte targets lowered.
Precision targets lowered.
Shockwave targets lowered.
Rebound targets lowered.
Evolution targets lowered.
Recompiler targets lowered.
Quickdraw targets lowered by a smidge.
Surge targets lowered by a smidge.
The Maw targets increased.
Note: A handful of player's whose score targets are now over a boundary may see a level unlock next time they open the map.
Visual Balancing

Stationary photon brightness reduced 8%.
Moving photon brightness reduced 6%.
Byte trail brightness reduced 5%.
Small pink bullet brightness increased by 4%.
All teleport zone brightness increased by 5%.
Byte trail flash-on-pickup reduced 8%.
Dimming applied to large groups of bytes increased by 6%.
Bugfixes

Extending lasers now re-extend correctly after hitting a wall.
The player gravity circle reacts appropriately to edge case on-off scenarios like (Sword plus Invincibility).
Circle-related power-ups no longer avoid a dashing player in Versus.
A secret level had it's secret mechanic fixed.
Checkbox options in the pause menu no longer flash for one frame.
Thank you everyone who has recently tried the game and I hope you enjoy your time with Cyberpulse!
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17 Mar 2025Developer post
Bugfix Patch 1.21
Improvements Slightly easier score goals on levels Precision II and Binary. Some map links have better animation timing. I have briefly disabled sound effects in Versus mode instant replay as it was bugging on some machines. Fix coming soon. Bugfixes Safer material access code to
Improvements

Slightly easier score goals on levels Precision II and Binary.
Some map links have better animation timing.
I have briefly disabled sound effects in Versus mode instant replay as it was bugging on some machines. Fix coming soon.
Bugfixes

Safer material access code to avoid null transform issues.
Fixed edge case where thrown firewall getting exploded by switch firewall bugged level.
Error checking on player level statistics code for future safety.
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Updates & announcements

Can You Climb To The Top?

Discord Community

Engine Update

Fixes

Fixes

Fixes

Improvements

Rebalancing

QoL Improvements

Bugfixes

Difficulty Tuning

Bugfixes

QoL Improvements

Boss Rebalance

Tweaks and Fixes

Difficulty Tuning

Bugfixes

Visual Balancing

Improvements

Co-Op Improvements

Visual Balancing

Bugfixes

Bugfixes

Bugfixes

Improvements

Level Score Target Tweaks

Visual Balancing

Bugfixes

Improvements

Bugfixes