Orbs
I SHOW YOU · 2017 · Massively Multiplayer, Indie, Action, Adventure, RPG
PC
Mostly Positive70% · 10
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About Orbs
Orbs is a truly unique science-fiction multiplayer online role playing game featuring an open world where players are sent to explore, control and rule futuristic and mysterious zones in order to discover their secrets.
Players are not only fighting their way through the world, but are also in a permanent conflict and competition against each other
Complete Feature List:
- Modules can be activated and used to combat foes or to support allies, ranging from effective over special modules to passive modules, getting stronger the more you collect
- Complex player progression system granting charge to everyone contributing in a destuction of an orb, no matter if you are a tank, a damage dealer or a supporter
- Various random events like anomalies, light cracks, security orbs, world stealer orbs or enigma holes bringing action to the battle field
- Battery stress system balancing the progress of hardcore and casual players by throttling progress by a fair amount
- Multiplayer features like operating systems, sociality or bundling aiding players who decide to play with others
- Overcharging system granting a massive boost to the one contributing the most in a destruction of a boss orb
- Intro scene showing the infiltration's beginning right before your orb starts it's journey into the unknown
- Combat text indicators displaying all kind of measurable effects, like damage, heal or cooling applied
- Module activation hotkey system giving you quick access to a wide range of abilities at the same time
- Tooltips helping you to understand every detail behind stats, modules and zones management
- Unique non player character behaviour. Aggressive, defensive, supportive or retiringly
- Home zone enabling you to organize all kinds of things and plan your next infiltration
- Loot drop system rewarding you with new and more powerful modules along your adventure
- Leaderboard showing off your achieved score gained by controlling and ruling the world
- Randomized spawning system making combat challenging and diversified at all time
- Safe zones saving your position and progression and heal you back up quickly
- Complex stats mechanics giving you the ability to focus on your play style
- Dropping instant aids to quickly get your orb ready for the next encounter
- Story telling system displaying communication between you and your command
- Transport instruments enabling you to cross the battle field very quickly
- Constructs to capture, rule and upgrade in order establish your own base
- Music fitting the atomsphere and theme of the zone you are currently in
- Store multiple orbs in your arsenal to be prepared for every challenge
- Auto-navigation system lets you travel to previously visited zones
- Drone system constructs computer controlled orbs fighting for you
- Hidden traps will surprise you in the most unsuitable situations
- Friend invitation system speeds up your first time in the world
- Achievements granting game changing benefits after each unlock
- Benefit system granting game changing effects for your account
- Upgradable modules amplifing their powers with variations
- Pick an affiliation to empower your prefered play style
- Sealing system enabling players to seal off their zones
- World map displaying all zones you have already visited
- Themed zones challenging player in many different ways
- Artifact modules empowering orbs in a very special way
- Triggerable events unleashing smart zone wide effects
- Chat system to locally communicate with other players
- Vocal combat announcements (Unreal Tournament Style)
- Futuristic environment to explore and interact with
- Inventory to store unused modules for later matters
- Hidden areas concealing extras for you to discover
- Help system introducing new aspects of the game
- Universal log displaying all major events
- Restarting game world
- First person view
Players are not only fighting their way through the world, but are also in a permanent conflict and competition against each other
Complete Feature List:
- Modules can be activated and used to combat foes or to support allies, ranging from effective over special modules to passive modules, getting stronger the more you collect
- Complex player progression system granting charge to everyone contributing in a destuction of an orb, no matter if you are a tank, a damage dealer or a supporter
- Various random events like anomalies, light cracks, security orbs, world stealer orbs or enigma holes bringing action to the battle field
- Battery stress system balancing the progress of hardcore and casual players by throttling progress by a fair amount
- Multiplayer features like operating systems, sociality or bundling aiding players who decide to play with others
- Overcharging system granting a massive boost to the one contributing the most in a destruction of a boss orb
- Intro scene showing the infiltration's beginning right before your orb starts it's journey into the unknown
- Combat text indicators displaying all kind of measurable effects, like damage, heal or cooling applied
- Module activation hotkey system giving you quick access to a wide range of abilities at the same time
- Tooltips helping you to understand every detail behind stats, modules and zones management
- Unique non player character behaviour. Aggressive, defensive, supportive or retiringly
- Home zone enabling you to organize all kinds of things and plan your next infiltration
- Loot drop system rewarding you with new and more powerful modules along your adventure
- Leaderboard showing off your achieved score gained by controlling and ruling the world
- Randomized spawning system making combat challenging and diversified at all time
- Safe zones saving your position and progression and heal you back up quickly
- Complex stats mechanics giving you the ability to focus on your play style
- Dropping instant aids to quickly get your orb ready for the next encounter
- Story telling system displaying communication between you and your command
- Transport instruments enabling you to cross the battle field very quickly
- Constructs to capture, rule and upgrade in order establish your own base
- Music fitting the atomsphere and theme of the zone you are currently in
- Store multiple orbs in your arsenal to be prepared for every challenge
- Auto-navigation system lets you travel to previously visited zones
- Drone system constructs computer controlled orbs fighting for you
- Hidden traps will surprise you in the most unsuitable situations
- Friend invitation system speeds up your first time in the world
- Achievements granting game changing benefits after each unlock
- Benefit system granting game changing effects for your account
- Upgradable modules amplifing their powers with variations
- Pick an affiliation to empower your prefered play style
- Sealing system enabling players to seal off their zones
- World map displaying all zones you have already visited
- Themed zones challenging player in many different ways
- Artifact modules empowering orbs in a very special way
- Triggerable events unleashing smart zone wide effects
- Chat system to locally communicate with other players
- Vocal combat announcements (Unreal Tournament Style)
- Futuristic environment to explore and interact with
- Inventory to store unused modules for later matters
- Hidden areas concealing extras for you to discover
- Help system introducing new aspects of the game
- Universal log displaying all major events
- Restarting game world
- First person view
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews[/url][/h1] Orbs is an awful game. I give it credit for at least being unique, rather than a generic rip off of another game, but it is truly terrible. It's buggy, confusing and a chore to play. You have a bloated stats system that is poorly explained, along with some weird gameplay. It actually seems like there is a decent amount of depth to the game, but it is packaged in such a bizarre and unintuitive way that you can't make heads or tails of it. Which stats are useful for early in the game? You have no idea because you can't even tell what each stat does. They might give a general description, but you don't know how much effect it actually has. Another issue is the lack of players. This is pitched as an MMO, yet you will most likely be the only person in the world playing. This would be fine in any other genre, as you can just play singleplayer, but an MMO almost requires a player base in order to have content. As it stands, you simply roll around killing AI controlled orbs. There is nothing interesting going on, just endless combat that starts out boring and only gets worse. 1/…6 found this helpful
Orbs is a somewhat unusual 3D rendered 2D action brawler with an obtuse bit of depth/progression as you can upgrade your ball. Otherwise the game involves just rolling around, smashing into other balls, and wondering what the heck is going on and what you're supposed to actually do to have fun. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. Case in point, while the game works, the overall design is so obtuse, you can't really work out what's going on or what you're supposed to do. That means it's not fun. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features l…3 found this helpful
[strike]Currently unplayable. After clicking "Register" in the main menu, it only says "Registration failed." edit: Now registration no longer fails, but I get another error right after the cutscene ends.[/strike] edit(2): I just tried now, and i no longer got error after the cutscene, so I was able to play it. I didn't spend much time actually playing yet, but I'm pleasantly surprised by dev's response2 found this helpful
It's my own game :/2 found this helpful
HI... Liked the idea... But the game won't load past the first screen... Nothing I type in works... So... What to do :(2 found this helpful
Basically the Demon Souls of Roll the Ball games.1 found this helpful
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