Orbitect

Wasn't really that fun. It's an interesting concept but the user interface is frustrating and the usual die-but-get-stronger roguelike mechanic falls apart because early runs aren't enjoyable enough to make you want to stick around to grind upgrades... as opposed to playing some other game instead.

Not only is the itself game rough to play, there's numerous very frustrating issues with gameplay. From repair costs being much higher than they should be, not caring about how much health is missing, to build mode being very prone to accidentally building instead of selecting, and the keybinds not being adjustable. And that's not even mentioning that over half the type of things you can build are locked behind the random drops for per-run bonuses. So absolutely a big fat "don't buy it, even on a massive discount".

I found the game to be both fun and challenging, making it a great way to pass the time. The game is well-polished and bug-free in my experience, which is always a plus. It can be quite addicting as you try different combinations and strategies for "taking out the trash". I also love the slight humor sprinkled throughout the game. Overall, Orbitect is challenging, well-polished, controls well, and has a unique premise. It’s a fun game to play!

Fun game but with issues. Generally i would recommend, the game play and concept is fun and novel enough to get you through the first few attempts. The narrator is a delight. TLDR: Fun game and would recommend but some major UX changes are needed to elevate the game. About worth the price and if you get used to it you'll be playing for hours. If nothing changed about this game I'd say it was about worth the price i payed for it (about £5-6) but i can easily see the concept being worth triple that with a little refining and customisation. My biggest issues come from the horrid UX design. Most things require you to go through a menu making it all a bit awkward to use. The low health, flashing red, indicator is the same as the being hit indicator, it its hard to tell if a block has just been hit or is super low hp and you need ti quickly repair it. Since I've mentioned repairing I'd be remiss to not mention that it makes no sense to repair the basic block. At the base values, it has 100HP costing 1 gold per HP healed (so up to 100 gold), but it only costs 20 to build it in the first place. So its must more economical to just destroy it (getting a 75% refund) and replacing it. …

This is a fun (and amusingly topical) twist on tower defence with a clean, chunky visual style. It's pretty tough during early runs when there's not much room to manoeuvre but after unlocking a few permanent upgrades you're awarded more opportunity to get creative with different blocks/setups.

It's fine if its on sale - not too complex, sadly most weapons not very useful.