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Out Of Orbit

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79%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
79% User Score Based on 126 reviews

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About Out Of Orbit

Out Of Orbit is a single player open world role playing shooter game. It was developed by OutOfOrbit and was released on October 20, 2023. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Design, build and manage your very own spacecraft. Explore unlimited amounts of randomly generated universes, travel through wormholes, do missions, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, win epic bossfights and many, many more things to do. The sky is the limit. Literally.

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79%Audience ScoreBased on 126 reviews
gameplay5 positive mentions
stability8 negative mentions
  • Deep ship and base building mechanics allowing for high creativity and customization.
  • Engaging core gameplay loop with exploration, mining, trading, combat, and crew management.
  • Highly active and responsive solo developer who frequently updates and fixes bugs, listens to community feedback.
  • Numerous bugs including crashes, save corruption, and NPC/faction issues leading to frustrating gameplay moments.
  • Clunky and unintuitive UI/UX with poor inventory management, awkward controls especially for pod and character movement.
  • Repetitive enemy encounters especially with the aggressive Sputniks that can disrupt gameplay flow and become tedious.

  • gameplay

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    36% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a fun and engaging core loop centered around asteroid harvesting, shipbuilding, and exploration, with a strong emphasis on creativity and survival mechanics. While some features are well-developed and enjoyable, others feel unfinished or buggy, though active development and balancing by the dev show promise for future improvements. Overall, the gameplay is entertaining, especially for short bursts, with a lot of potential due to its multifaceted mechanics.

    • “There's an excellent and very entertaining core gameplay loop inside this pixel-based survival/crafting space simulation, and it's a lot of fun overall, letting you build and pilot whatever you'd like in the process.”
    • “Multifaceted asteroid harvesting mechanics.”
    • “The game is worth the price because it has a lot of great mechanics like building and upgrading your spaceship, doing missions, and mining for resources.”
    • “Crashes a lot and gameplay is weird, not really even worth the time.”
    • “I love the shipbuilder mechanic, however the game lacks in many ways, but it's still fun.”
    • “And I spent over half of my gameplay time just flying.”

  • stability

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences frequent bugs and stability issues, including crashes, buggy NPC behavior, and problems with autosave and quests. Despite these technical flaws, players find it enjoyable and appreciate ongoing updates, suggesting a fun experience if one can tolerate occasional glitches.

    • “NPCs get super buggy, constant crashes, autosave doesn't save, factions can't decide if they are hostile or friendly, crew unassigns from rooms randomly, side quests vanish or don't finish when completed.”
    • “Played for a while, not a bad game just really buggy. Was okay in the beginning, but after I jumped to a new sector everything went to hell.”
    • “Pressing ESC to see the menu freezes the game for a second or two - not that important, but annoying.”

  • story

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    29% positive mentions, 28% neutral mentions, 43% negative mentions

    The story aspect is heavily criticized for lacking a main narrative and offering only a few, buggy side missions that often fail to complete properly. Technical issues such as NPC bugs, faction inconsistencies, and crashes further disrupt the story experience. Overall, the game relies more on gameplay mechanics than a coherent or engaging story.

    • “Kill 16 enemies and you will have another two or more quests before you can unlock meds.”
    • “The game is worth the price because it has a lot of great mechanics like building and upgrading your spaceship, doing missions, and mining for resources.”
    • “There isn't even a real main story at the moment and there are only really two side missions you can play.”
    • “NPCs get super buggy, constant crashes, autosave doesn't save, factions can't decide if they are hostile or friendly, crew unassigns from rooms randomly, side quests vanish, side quests don't finish when completed.”
    • “Either you run cargo or you do bounties, and the bounty missions are buggy so there is really just cargo runs.”

  • grinding

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the grinding in the game excessively tedious and mind-numbing, particularly criticizing the lengthy and slow ore collection during the tutorial, which hampers early engagement.

    • “It was one of the most mind-numbing and tedious things imaginable.”
    • “After teaching me the basics, the game should have just handed me some materials to fill out the rest of the spaceship, but no, I had to sit there and slowly, tediously grind ores for 80 minutes in the tutorial.”
    • “But the tutorial at least made it evident immediately how mind-numbingly grindy the game was before I got too invested.”

  • graphics

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features complex and appealing graphics that enhance its fun gameplay, but lacks basic customization options like adjustable graphics settings. Some technical issues, such as mouse movement inconsistencies within the rendered area, detract from the experience. Overall, the visuals show promise but could use refinement.

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users suggest that optimization could benefit from features like extensive zoom-out options seen in other games, which maintain detail without heavily impacting performance. However, the exact performance implications remain uncertain.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game delivers strong emotional moments that resonate deeply with players, capable of evoking genuine tears through its impactful dialogue and heartfelt scenes.

    • “I cried real tears when he said 'it's orbitin' time!' and orbited out of control.”

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers a variety of activities that provide moderate replayability, though there is significant room for improvement to enhance long-term engagement.

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Play Times

2h Median play time
2h Average play time
2-3h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 3 analyzed playthroughs
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Out Of Orbit is a open world role playing shooter game. Common tags for Out Of Orbit include indie, colony sim, exploration, pixel graphics, early access and others.

Out Of Orbit is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Out Of Orbit.

Out Of Orbit was released on October 20, 2023.

Out Of Orbit was developed by OutOfOrbit.

Out Of Orbit has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Out Of Orbit for its gameplay but disliked it for its stability.

Out Of Orbit is a single player game.

Similar games include SpaceBourne 2, Ostranauts, HumanitZ, Echoes of Elysium, The Last Starship and others.