Help Laserboy escape The Scientist's experimental vision facility without racking up a massive bill. 13 levels of mayhem and confusion in glorious CRT vision. Now with challenging new achievements!
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Positive (44) - 93% of the 44 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Nov 22, 2021
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About This Game

NEW: SUPERFAN UPDATE (2022)!


  • Beat your runs: start from any level you’ve already completed with our nifty new level select screen (with music!)
  • Jump right in: Get straight to the action by skipping all intro cutscenes. No time to mess around buddy!
  • Track your runs: view your best score ratings for each level and think about how you could spend your time to become better... at everything.
  • Reeeewind: quickly restart a level or replay the previous one to nail those challenges. Get those perfect scores!
  • Nice: lots of fixes and delightful features that make defeating The Scientist even more enjoyable.

CHALLENGE UPDATE (2021)!


  • Speedrun Mode: Focus on the need for speed by turning off all dialogue. Just pure gameplay, baby!
  • Brand New Achievements: we’ve added more ways to challenge and reward players. Some are easy, some are hard but all of them are neat.
  • No FX Mode: A new accessibility feature that turns off shakes, jitters, and other glitch effects. The game is still weird though, don’t worry.
  • Windowed Mode: Added due to popular demand!
  • Bug fixes: stability and performance fixes to make all this buttery mayhem feel more buttery.

Laserboy is a tiny experimental game. Help Buddy reach the end of 13 levels as quickly as possible without damaging too much expensive lab equipment or personnel. The catch? You have a tactical laser shooting out of your eye every 5 seconds. Good luck!

How to Play


Your character can move around in the level but there’s no jumping or controlled shooting so it’s important to use the tactical beam, well, tactically. While a fast level time and low bill total will improve your score rating, you can play this game any way you like. Lots of people just take their time and destroy stuff, or look for the odd secret.

From the Devs


This was a ridiculous game jam idea we turned into a small passion project, and we’re just happy it exists. We hope you find something for you in it and if not that’s cool too. Feel free to join our discussions page. Say hi, share your thoughts, or ask for help. Glorbo welcomes!

Additional Information


LASERBOY is the miraculous remaster of the iconic video game by Catfun Corp, originally created for the Funvision Entertainment System. Thought until recently to have been forever lost to time, LASERBOY has been painstakingly rebuilt and faithfully recreated from the ground up by an expert team of digital archaeologists at Universal Entities using fragments of art and code found in the wreckage of [REDACTED]. A story of lore, lasers, and [REDACTED].

Music by Germany's pop sensation: Lenni Revenge.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Cartoon violence, pixelated nudity.

System Requirements

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SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 and above
    • Processor: Intel i5
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 90 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS Mojave 10.13
    • Processor: Intel i5
    • Memory: 4 MB RAM
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Memory: 8 MB RAM
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
    • Processor: Intel i5
    • Graphics: NVidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Recommended:

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