Orbital Gear on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Orbital Gear is a fast paced sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give you momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of the twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies.

Orbital Gear is a action, indie and mechs game developed and published by Night Node.
Released on August 07th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 1,788 reviews of which 1,483 were positive and 305 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is free to play on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista
  • Processor: Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVidia GeForce 8800GT
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X: 10.5
  • Processor: Dual Core Processor
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Additional Notes: Two button mouse recommended
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 10.10
  • Processor: Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVidia GeForce 8800GT
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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Dec. 2024
July 2024
>puts game up for free in order to preserve it absolutely based behavior hope the former devs are still doin good
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Orbital Gear
8.0
1,483
305
Online players
0
Developer
Night Node
Publisher
Night Node
Release 07 Aug 2014
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