Orb Tower
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.4h 5.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
About the game
A Roguelike Bubble Puzzler! Choose your school of magic and reach the top of the tower! Chill pick up and play feel and nostalgic pixel art and music. Get your staff and prepare to shoot orbastical spells !
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 8 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is cheaper than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nova Drift ($17.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Be My Horde ($9.99, scores 58).
More about Orb Tower
HowLongToBeat players log 1.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 5, 3.8 times as much.
The drop-off
88% start to 22% rarestNo 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
Cool little bubble-shooter with roguelike elements. The game does a really good job of encapsulating this oldschool, arcade'y feeling. I was surprised how varied the characters ("schools of magic") are. You actually need to modify your approach to fit given wizard's effects. The music is an absolute banger. Got 100% achievements in under 7 hours, but the game is pretty cheap, so I'd say it is definitely worth the...
2 more reviews
Orb Tower, developed and published by Pierre Vandermaesen under VANDERMAESEN GAMES, is a cleverly designed hybrid that blends the familiar satisfaction of bubble-shooter puzzles with the layered progression of a roguelite. At first glance, it presents itself as a simple arcade experience-aim, fire, and match colors-but it quickly evolves into something more strategic, where each run becomes a sequence of meaningful...
My girlfriend and I really really love this game. It is the only game I come back to over and over and over again. I played the free trial somewhere for hours before seeing how affordable it is and I bought it and it is SO worth it, I've beat the game now but it's still something I play whenever I have some down time, trying to do a run with no damage or collecting gold. When my girlfriend gets an unlucky orb we say...
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Cite this score
Orb Tower scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3496500/orb-towerReviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.