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Dmytry Lavrov / Oct 15, 2010 / Action, Casual, Indie
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CompareExperience the music in a new way. Feel it pulse around you. The Polynomial is a 3D space shooter with unique, fractal based scenery that animates to the music.
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74% positive, 409 reviews
This game is genuinely awful, absolute visual cancer and immensely boring gameplay... its a music visualizer in a 3D environment with spaceship controls, the trailer makes it look cooler than it is until he starts shooting, then it looks exactly how it plays.
8 found this helpful, 2026-08-21
Back around the early 2010s, creativity was exploding in the indie scene - Leading to a whole mess of weird and wonderful games. The Polynomial absolutely ruled my stoned brain as a young adult - Completely enveloping in a dark room with a little music on, slowly learning through faint cues what was going on. It's still a nifty idea, pairing well with other pretty, mellow games like Eidolon and Night Shift. If...
0 found this helpful, 2026-08-02
I do NOT recommend this game to discerning gamers. I HIGHLY recommend this game to someone who is looking for a cool thing to have on one's LED Projector wallscreen while playing phat beats or haunting melodies from one's "altered states of consciousness special music" folder. I use Winamp's milkdrop for the beginning of the party, and then when guests are looking to relax and play simple mindless no-consequence...
153 found this helpful, 2014-01-23
- 'Be your own DJ.' - The Polynomial catapults you into a space arena, with colorful stars and lights illuminating your endless surroundings. Controlling your own little spaceship, shooting 'enemy' objectives and gather power-up items makes it feel like an all classic space-shooter game. It’s more a case of floating around, attacking anything that comes in your direction, exploring the intriguing and trippy...
67 found this helpful, 2016-03-17
Load up your favourite tracks, sit back and enjoy the strangely trippy yet relaxing experience that is Polynomial. Don't expect any story, or in depth mechanics from this title. You're essentially a floating entity in space that shoots giant cannon balls that look like a cross between Pac-Man and Bullet from Mario. You can collect power ups along the way that do a small upgrade for a short amount of time, however I...
34 found this helpful, 2014-11-07
The Polynomial is a trip. Though there is a game hidden here, one that would most easily be described as an aerial combat shooter, a more appropriate term would be "sensory experience". I spent the majority of my time doing nothing more than floating through an endless space, with equal amounts of awe at what was happening before me and curiosity over how certain songs would be represented within the game or how...
44 found this helpful, 2013-10-05
The Polynomial is more of an experience as opposed to a game. You fly around empty space watching gorgeous mathematical patterns of color vibrate according to the beat of the music. Not only that, but you can import your own music files into the game and watch them shake up the patterns for endless possibilities. I reccommend The Polynomial not as a game, but as a very unique experience.
13 found this helpful, 2017-04-17
The Polynomial is great: when high. Seriously, I'm not even gonna lie about it. The visuals are spectacular. Fractal-based landscapes with blazing colours and a handful of presets to change up the mood. As for gameplay, it is simple. You've got allies that look as if they've just arrive from a different plane of existence (the Ancients of Stargate SG-1 come to mind), and enemies that look like pacman. You kill your...
17 found this helpful, 2014-10-24
This is a brilliant music-based game. Beautiful artwork interspersed with game-play you can choose intensity level on. My favorite is listening to some very chill electronic music and fly around while I trip on my substance of choice. Very recommend much amazing!
24 found this helpful, 2014-11-11
This is quite an odd "game" as its more of a free-flying space shooter within a winamp visualization. It lacks direction and feels more like a test of visual effects and messing with a game engine then an actual game. The achievements are mostly along the lines of "do X in Y amount of time" and in general really uninspired and feeds the feeling of the whole thing being a test more a game even more. Time to 100%:...
34 found this helpful, 2014-01-05