Smash Hit

Smash Hit is an abstract rail shooter in which the player travels forward at a constant speed, with dynamic music that changes as the player progresses. The player has to shoot metal balls to destroy glass obstacles, but must aim carefully with a limited supply of ammunition as the game ends if it ever depletes.[2][3] Any collision with an obstacle results in the loss of ten balls.[4]

Obstacles can either be directly destroyed with the balls,[5] or otherwise moved out of the way by shooting a button. More balls can be gained by destroying blue glass crystals of various shapes. Players can earn power-ups and activate them for a certain amount of time. Each power-up gives a special effect when activated, such as giving the player an infinite supply of balls, turning all their balls explosive, or slowing time down.

There is a combo mechanic in which the player can destroy the same blue crystals used for gaining balls to regain a certain amount of ammunition. Destroying a consecutive sequence of crystals will increase the player's streak, allowing them to shoot as many as five balls at once while only using one ball in their ammunition. Missing a crystal or taking damage ends the multiball streak and resets the player's rate of fire to just one ball.[4]

Successful completion of the main campaign will lead to endless mode, a stage which is repeated infinitely until the player is out of balls.

Smash Hit received mostly positive reviews. Common Sense Media gave the game 5 out of 5 praising it as "a therapeutic experience", and "utterly hypnotizing".[6]

In 2015, an adaptation of the game for Samsung Gear VR titled Smash Hit VR was released.[7]

The game would receive multipule major updates after its initial release in 2014, including adding new checkpoints and both new singleplayer and local mutliplayer game modes.[8][9]

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