Orbital Gear
Night Node · 2014 · Action, Indie, Mechs, Multiplayer, Simulation
PC
Very Positive83% · 1,18859Metacritic
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About Orbital Gear
✦ AI summary
Pilot your mech through gravity-warped space in this sidescroller shooter, bouncing between celestial bodies while wielding devastating weapons that manipulate orbital physics itself. Battle in classic deathmatch or team-based Orbital Warfare with up to 4 players split-screen, combining skill-based combat with strategic use of gravity to outmaneuver opponents.
Orbital Gear is a sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give your mech momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies. Orbital Gear features classic multiplayer gameplay with new mechanics and 3D graphics.
Orbital Gear has classic deathmatch as the basis for multiplayer pandemonium but it also have a special game mode called Orbital Warfare, a mode where you battle the opposing team with the goal to destroy the opponents base. Victory is ensured either with your mechs weapons or by charging your doomsday weapon with energy cores, collected from fallen enemies.
Orbital Gear has classic deathmatch as the basis for multiplayer pandemonium but it also have a special game mode called Orbital Warfare, a mode where you battle the opposing team with the goal to destroy the opponents base. Victory is ensured either with your mechs weapons or by charging your doomsday weapon with energy cores, collected from fallen enemies.
Features
- Hone your skills in Orbital Trials, a single-player mode where you must complete a series of timed trials against enemies!
- Fast paced multiplayer experience, inspired by classic multiplayer games!
- The gravitation gives Orbital Gear a unique gameplay. Movement are affected as well as many of the weapons are either affected or affect the gravity, giving the gameplay new challenges!
- Twelve different weapons, all with different effects. Scorch planets with the Kasainami to force your opponent to move, or run them down in close combat with the Gauntlet to name but two!
- Four different utilities. Set up Turrets and Shields or use the Booster to navigate between planets!
- Four different looks for your mech!
- Classic deathmatch and Orbital Warfare where your team fighting against an opposing team with the goal to destroy their home planet!
- 4-player split screen multiplayer.
- Get ammunition and health from energy cores, spawned from every opponent destroyed. In Orbital Warfare you can also save them to charge your planets super weapon to destroy the opponents planet once and for all!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Orbital Gear, developed and published by Night Node, is a multiplayer arena shooter that builds its entire identity around a single, standout idea: combat governed by shifting gravity. Instead of traditional flat arenas, matches take place across clusters of small planets and structures, each with its own gravitational pull. This transforms movement into the defining skill, forcing players to constantly reorient themselves as they run along curved surfaces, leap between celestial bodies, and fight from angles that would be impossible in a standard shooter. It’s a concept that immediately distinguishes the game, offering a fresh and disorienting take on both platforming and competitive combat. Movement is the heart of the experience, and mastering it is essential. Players control mech-like units that can traverse planetary surfaces, jump between gravity fields, and use momentum to sling themselves across space. This creates a fluid, almost acrobatic style of navigation where positioning is constantly in flux. Learning how to maintain control while transitioning between different gravitational pulls is both the game’s greatest strength and its biggest challenge. At its best, movemen…4 found this helpful
Originally a $9.99 game that went Free. The online elements no longer connect leaving the local end stuff. I tried the time trials a little and just wasn't feeling it.1 found this helpful
Great game!
good party game but has degenerate circle camping in 1v1s
Orbital Gear is a fast-paced 2D sidescrolling shooter focused on gravity-based combat, where players navigate using momentum between celestial bodies. While offering a unique and often frantic experience, it suffers from a nearly empty player base and feels best enjoyed with friends.
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