Orbit-X
Different Gravity Games · 2021 · Space, Flight, Economy, Science, Space Sim
PC
3 user reviews67% · 3 📈 Making a comeback 80%
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →
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About Orbit-X
Launch Rockets, Make money.
Your Uncle, Alon Munk, the famous rocket/satellite entrepreneur, has died and left you his fortune, and his new satellite internet company.
Your goal is simple. Launch Rockets, Make money. Create the worlds first Global Satellite Internet Service... I guess you might call it a link in the stars? Or maybe some sort of Star Link? Not sure yet, obviously the name needs work.
Your job as CEO will involve many challenges. Every satellite you launch enables more customers to choose your internet service, but bad latency will drive them away, so don't make your orbits too large... but also, don't put them so close that they crash into each other... its a real balancing act.
Space is dangerous, rockets crash, Asteroids are big, Fuel is expensive, and the EPA will fine you for polluting the atmosphere with Rocket debris.
Luckily for you, Your Uncle was also a little eccentric so has designed the rocket/satellites to be mounted with Point Defence Cannons in order to shoot down anything that might cause a disruption to your internet service. Whether that's Asteroids, Aliens or even your own Rockets.
Orbit-X simulates a tiny little planet that provides a simple entry into rocket physics, with no need to study rocket science to play
Within seconds of starting you will be flying rockets and putting them in orbit. Once you enable the Antenna on a rocket it will start connecting people to the Interwebs and you start making money! But be careful not to charge too much for slow internet.You might lose a rocket or two if an asteroid comes along, but once you upgrade your facilities you can load up your rockets with Ammo and start shooting them down. Let's be honest if anyone was going to put Machine Guns on Rockets, it was going to be your Uncle, Alon.
When you see your rocket fleet dancing around the planet, making beautiful shapes with their trails, you will smile... Then when two of them collide and three more get taken out by an asteroid, you will cry... But if you have managed your funds well, you can just launch more!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀10 found this helpful
"Orbit-X" is a bit like Kerbal Space Program from Temu. Although much worse in all respects and with more of a focus on operating all the satellites you throw into orbit. What do you do in the game? This is more like a tycoon game than anything else and you'll spend your time on the economics of the launches as well as sometimes defending your rockets from asteroids, but that's not a huge part of the game. Think spreadsheets, menus, and zero fun. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. The graphics aren't great, a few static screens, a lot of bland menus, and a nice graphic of the planet and satellites, but nothing at all remarkable or of decent quality. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual m…1 found this helpful
this game is hard but fun i really like space btw
Can't get into orbit at all.
not so pro as KSP but still challenging for me, I can only run my rockets on elliptic orbits, how to run on round orbits?
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