How do I attack in Pulp Panic?

You do not have to. Your weapons fire on their own at the nearest pest. All you control is where your hero moves, and when to dash.

What happens when I level up?

Three reels spin and land on three upgrades, and you keep all three. Every few levels you also choose a spell, such as circling blades or an ice orb.

How do I beat the boss?

Survive five minutes and the boss arrives. Keep moving, keep your dash for its charges, and use the upgrades you stacked. Beat it to unlock the next stage.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. It was built for phones first: drag anywhere to move, and the dash and drone buttons sit under your thumbs. It works with a keyboard too.

Can I play Pulp Panic on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?

Yes on a Chromebook. Pulp Panic draws to a plain 2D canvas, so it runs on just about anything with a browser. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It plays on a phone with touch controls, held upright, and on a keyboard if you have one.

Pulp Panic: Free Survivor Game, Play Online

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Survivor game: you move, the weapons fire, the swarm grows

A fruit squad against every pest in the garden.

A survivor game with a fruit squad. Your orange hero fires on its own, so all you do is move, and the garden pests close in from every side, thicker every second. Pick up the gems they drop and every level-up spins three reels that land on three upgrades, and you keep all three: attack speed, damage, life steal, a wider magnet. Every few levels a spell tree opens, from circling blades to an ice orb and falling meteors. Elite pests carry chests, a Weapon Rush at one minute hands you a new gun, and at five minutes the stage boss arrives. Between runs, open chests for gear, merge three of a kind into something better, train talents and recruit five more fruit, each with a passive of its own. Twelve stages, from Corner Park to The Rot.

Free to play, no download, no sign-up. Hosted with ❤ by GamerX.

How to play Pulp Panic

Press the big yellow stage button, then PLAY. Your hero and its weapons fire by themselves at the nearest pest, so your only job is where to stand: drag anywhere on a phone to move with the thumbstick, or use WASD or the arrow keys. Walk over the gems that pests drop to fill the bar at the top. Every time it fills, three reels spin and you get all three upgrades they land on; every few levels you also pick a spell. Grab the blade bubbles at the start for a ring of machetes. Dash with the button in the corner or Space when it turns gold. Survive five minutes and the boss arrives: beat it to clear the stage and unlock the next.

Tips

Keep moving in wide circles. Standing still lets the swarm close the ring around you.
Take the blade bubbles in the first seconds: the ring of machetes clears the opening waves on its own.
Pickup Radius is worth more than it looks. Gems you never walk to are levels you never get.
Save the dash for when you are boxed in, not for travelling. It is your only way through a wall of pests.
Merge three of the same gear into the next rarity before you spend coins levelling any of it.

About Pulp Panic

Pulp Panic is drawn entirely in code on a 2D canvas, with no image files at all: every fruit, pest, blade and button is painted by the game itself, which is why it opens in about a second. Its difficulty was not guessed. Test players that play whole careers - earning coins, buying gear, retrying stages - were run through it, and the curve was tuned on how many attempts each stage takes rather than on win rates. That is how it was found that stacking percentage upgrades on top of each other produced a hero with tens of thousands of health; every percentage now adds to the base instead.

What you need

Graphics: 2D canvas — it will run on almost anything
Controls: Keyboard or touchscreen
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Pulp Panic vs Vampire Survivors

The same rule: your weapons fire by themselves, you only move, and every level-up makes you stronger while the swarm gets thicker. Pulp Panic plays in a browser tab on a phone, in five-minute stages that end in a boss fight, and every level-up grants three upgrades instead of one. Between runs there is gear to merge, talents to train and a squad of six fruit to choose from.

Vampire Survivorsis someone else’s game and not affiliated with GamerX. It is named here because it is the clearest way to describe what Pulp Panic is.

Questions

How do I attack in Pulp Panic?: You do not have to. Your weapons fire on their own at the nearest pest. All you control is where your hero moves, and when to dash.
What happens when I level up?: Three reels spin and land on three upgrades, and you keep all three. Every few levels you also choose a spell, such as circling blades or an ice orb.
How do I beat the boss?: Survive five minutes and the boss arrives. Keep moving, keep your dash for its charges, and use the upgrades you stacked. Beat it to unlock the next stage.
Does it work on a phone?: Yes. It was built for phones first: drag anywhere to move, and the dash and drone buttons sit under your thumbs. It works with a keyboard too.
Can I play Pulp Panic on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?: Yes on a Chromebook. Pulp Panic draws to a plain 2D canvas, so it runs on just about anything with a browser. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It plays on a phone with touch controls, held upright, and on a keyboard if you have one.