Orbital Gear
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 1,805
- Critics
- 59 players 24 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 26% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Time and effort
- To 100%
- 7.7h
- Achievements
- 12
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Better reviewed
- 62% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
50% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 26 percent. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, AirMech (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Vox Machinae ($29.99, scores 51).
More about Orbital Gear
59 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 640 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Orbital Gear is a fast paced sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give you momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of the twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce 8800GT, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Orbital Gear scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/298520/orbital-gearReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.