Real-time online action, accessible from day one.
Hear the arena: enemy footsteps, shots whizzing past, the rustle of bushes, a fountain in one corner and a campfire in another. All of Sonarush is played by ear, on headphones, in three dimensions, and a voice tells you what you need.
Play online with people from all over the world, together with your friends, or offline against bots. Free, with no ads: nothing you can buy gives an advantage in matches.
The zip downloads straight away, free and with no account; the files are hosted on itch.io, where you'll also find the guides. After the first download the game updates itself.
What Sonarush is
Sonarush is a real-time online action game with short matches, accessible from day one. We didn't adapt it afterwards, and accessibility isn't a separate mode: the whole game is played entirely by ear, with 3D audio, speech and braille, and it works with your screen reader. Anyone with a pair of headphones can play, and blind players play on equal terms.
Hear the arena
Everything has its own sound and its own place. Enemies pulse, allies don't; walls muffle whatever is behind them; four fixed landmarks tell you where you are. One key asks for your health, the radar, your range or what's ahead.
Fight by ear
23 characters in seven classes, each with a weapon, a super, a gadget and a Star Power. Aim is assisted: a beep tells you when an enemy is locked on and when you're in range.
Play with others
Online matches with players at your level, friends, squads, clubs of up to 30 people, global and national leaderboards. You can even listen to a friend's match, from their point of view.
Grow every day
Trophies and ranks, the Decibel Ladder up to 20,000 trophies, Sonar Rewards for your first wins of the day, missions and a new season every month. Coins, gems and Fragments are all earned by playing.
See how it plays · Meet the 23 characters
This month
The current season
Season 2
From 2 November 2026 to 6 December 2026: 35 days left.
Every month, from the first Monday, a new season of the Frequency begins, the free seasonal path:
- 70 steps, each with a reward: coins, Power Points, Fragments, gems, Sonar Rewards, sound skins and Echo Chests;
- you climb with daily and weekly missions;
- Frequency Plus, for 299 gems, doubles the rewards and its last step can give the season's exclusive skin;
- whatever you reach and don't collect is given to you at the end of the season.
Today in Sonarush
Modes rotate through three turns, the same for everyone. Times in UTC; the Sonarush day starts at 8:00 UTC.
- First turn: Duel, alternating with Survival at 8:00 UTC.
- Second turn: Heist, alternating with King of the Hill at 20:00 UTC.
- Third turn: SonarBall, alternating with Star Hunt at 8:00 UTC.
- Event of the day: SonarBall, with double coins and experience.
- Siege: opens on Friday at 8:00 UTC and stays open until Monday.
New players always find Duel; the other modes unlock as you earn trophies.
The modes
- Duel
- One against one, best of five rounds, in an arena that shrinks.
- Star Hunt
- Three against three: collect the stars that appear in the middle, reach ten and hold them for fifteen seconds.
- King of the Hill
- Three against three to hold the zone in the middle, following its hum.
- Heist
- Three against three: crack the enemy safe before they crack yours.
- SonarBall
- Three against three with a jingling ball: shoot, lob, and the first to two goals wins.
- Survival
- Ten players, everyone against everyone, while acid closes in on the arena.
- Siege
- At weekends, three of you defend the Core from ever stronger waves of enemies.
Modes unlock as you earn trophies, so your first matches are never too much. In the Rehearsal Room you can try any mode, map and character, even the ones you don't have yet.
Accessible from day one
- It speaks through NVDA or JAWS on Windows and VoiceOver on Mac, braille included; without a screen reader it uses the system voice.
- A guided tutorial teaches the controls one at a time, and F1 reads help for every screen.
- You choose how much the game speaks, what it announces and how loud each family of sounds is.
- The Audio glossary lets you hear every sound in the game with its explanation.
- Almost every key can be remapped.
Download and play
Sonarush is free on itch.io, for Windows and Mac. Download a zip, extract it and start the game: no installer and no account. From then on the game updates itself, without touching your progress.
The zip downloads straight away, free and with no account; the files are hosted on itch.io, where you'll also find the guides. After the first download the game updates itself.
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
- A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
- A pair of stereo headphones: speakers work too, but with headphones you hear much better where sounds come from.
- You only need internet to play online; without it, you play offline against bots.
The first time, Windows or your Mac may ask for confirmation: the quick guide explains what to do, step by step.
The community
Join the Sonarush Discord server to find teammates, ask questions and have your say on the game. You'll also find us on the AudioGames.net forum and on AppleVis.