Orbital Mechanics
Brock Billings · 2022 · Action, Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, 3D, Sci-fi
PC
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About Orbital Mechanics
In Orbital Mechanics you take the role of a small mining robot, tasked with mining the energy rich power-crystals found on nearby asteroids. However, you are set upon by crystal pirates with their sole goal of stealing the crystals. Use your weapons to combat the pirates!
The left mouse button operates your main weapon. A fast, low-power weapon which can be used to break crystals. The right mouse button utilises the EMP weapon. This is a much stronger, slower weapon which runs on the energy of blue power-crystals. Additionally, it has the ability to weaken the crystal pirates shield. You can also tether yourself to other nearby asteroids by looking at one and holding 'Tab' while floating in space.
The left mouse button operates your main weapon. A fast, low-power weapon which can be used to break crystals. The right mouse button utilises the EMP weapon. This is a much stronger, slower weapon which runs on the energy of blue power-crystals. Additionally, it has the ability to weaken the crystal pirates shield. You can also tether yourself to other nearby asteroids by looking at one and holding 'Tab' while floating in space.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Orbital Mechanics offers attractive visuals and an entertaining boss fight concept, but players find it feels like a bare-bones tech demo with minimal gameplay depth and content. While the graphics are polished and the core idea of rolling a tank around 3D planets has some appeal, most agree the experience is too simplistic and short to justify the time investment, lacking the substance needed to match its presentation.
"Orbital Mechanics" is basically Planetary Annihilation with almost all the gameplay removed... a simple tech demo scoped game, you roll a tank thing around little 3D planets, shoot stuff and jump between them. This could have been the foundation for a much bigger, richer game, but as it stands it's more of a bare bones proof of concept. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service …2 found this helpful
This whole game is a pretty fun boss fight in space. Even though it's simplistic, easy and short.1 found this helpful
[h1]Before I played Orbital Mechanics, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
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