0RBITALIS

0RBITALIS

Skip · Strategy · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
2.6h 13h to 100%
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
72% of 307 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1019 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~13h to replay
Steam Workshop mods and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 2.6h main story
Holding it back
Value$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 71% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 22 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

0RBITALIS is a satellite launching simulator with a retro-puzzle style. Launch your satellite into orbit and go head to head with the dominant force that formed the entire universe: Gravity.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics (512MB), 123 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 29 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 146 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 44 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tin Can ($19.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21).

More about 0RBITALIS

The main story runs 2.6 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 5.0 times as long.

The drop-off

34% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 3.5hMay 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
2D orbital mechanics! Note: the viewport and game itself seem TO ME to work by far the best in windowed mode, with the window pulled down to be almost full-screen vertically. That allows me to line up trickier shots. This is a great idle game which started as a game compo entry quite a few years ago. If the daily levels ever stop coming, it'll be a sad event. When you're working through the main campaign, some...
Potentiality12Recommendedafter 74hAug 2023Read on Steam
Real gravity doesnt work like that (but real gravity would be a boring game mechanic, too stable). Too much dumb luck for my taste (and too many gaussian distributed highscores to actually be about skill). For best results, play blindfolded. That'll teach me to buy Early Access.
KaldoshNot recommendedafter 1.3h17 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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0RBITALIS scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278440/0rbitalis
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics73
Players72
Metacritic critics · 307 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlan Zucconi
PublisherMastertronic
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements38