Five Minutes Before guide - How to rescue survivors and land properly

Five Minutes Before is a lunar-lander style game where players have to rescue as many people as possible before time is up and the Earth evaporates.

Here are some tips to make sure you can save as many people as possible from the apocalypse.

0% Energy doesn't mean empty

Don't be overly concerned with the battery meter in Five Minutes Before. When you reach 0% battery, your thrusters can actually work long enough to get you back to base in a pinch.

Of course, you don't want to overdo it. Flying on no fuel does not give you much lift, so be careful!

You don't have to land to pick up people

If you see a survivor in need of rescue on some weird geometry, it might be really tricky to land and pick them up without crashing.

Instead, if you bring your craft just high enough to touch a survivor, you can pick them up without actually having to land.

If you land near someone, they'll come to you

Don't worry too much about landing right on a survivor - you'll just be wasting precious fuel. If you land somewhat near a survivor, they run to your ship anyway.

Go up high for a good view of who needs saving

Although it can take up loads of fuel, there are a lot of benefits to flying high in Five Minutes Before, the most important of which is the ability to see survivors a good ways off.

Being high also makes it easy to drift down onto landing spots and make low energy descents onto the landing pad a lot less stressful.

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