Player Preview - Orbitalis

Title: Orbitalis
Developer: Alan Zucconi
Release Date: 28th May, 2015

Official Site: http://bit.ly/1KNykY8
Steam Page: http://bit.ly/1IiBjXX

Hey what’s up, Serpentine here taking a look at the gravity based puzzle game, Orbitalis, developed by one man dev team Alan Zucconi. 

Orbitalis is a fairly simple game with only one control that fires your satellite to begin its orbit. The whole goal of the game is to get the satellite to stay in orbit for as long as possible avoiding the numerous obstacles and just flying into the outreaches of space. The early levels will only have you dealing with the pulling forces of gravity but later down the track you will be introduced to pushing forces and mini gravitational forces that can throw off your trajectory. To progress onto another level you will have to meet the minimum Orbit time, if you really want to test yourself though you can compete on global leaderboards for each level however there are already some crazy long times being set so you may struggle to even get into the top 10.

If you want to get a little bit more creative you can hop into the editor and create your own levels to put onto the Orbitalis’ Workshop or just to challenge yourself. There’s already a bunch of levels to play through in the core game but if you want more there are over 70 community made maps available to play via the workshop as well as a daily challenge. Unfortunately the playerbase has somewhat dropped off since release due to the very simplistic game mechanics so you may just be competing against 1 or 2 other players in the daily challenges.

Altogether, Orbitalis does feel like a small conceptual game that doesn’t really have much depth, however if you’re looking for a puzzle game that you can mess around in for a little while you may be interested. The puzzles in the game for most players will come down to trial and error but if you have some knowledge in physics you may be able to actually think through the problems. Basically Orbitalis comes down to “What you see is What you get”

Anyway, that’s been my player preview for Orbatalis, the game officially released on the 28th of May and is currently available on Steam. If you want to find out more about the game check out the links below. Thanks for watching, I’ll see you guys next time.