Orbatron Reviews

pretty solid game

Saw this on a frankly ridiculous sale and grabbed it. £1.13? Go on then. This game has you shooting orbs in various configurations and static or 'flying' scenarios. It's colourful, polished, has tons of levels (with secret orbs to find) and draws you in with its simplicity. It's a sort of weirdly compelling 'popping bubble wrap' feeling, high-score-chasing in a trippy environment.

More engaging than it looks. Nothing special though. I played it for a while,so it was good value for what I paid for it.

Surprisingly fun puzzle game. The challenge / puzzle mode feels good, as you are presented with a moving swarm of orbs you need to destroy, pairing shots from both controllers for combo bonuses when you destroy matching orbs, or just shooting them down individually to get to the end. Avoid shooting anything that's red, orbs, barriers, walls. Those are bad. I can't play the "flight" levels because the rails motion doesn't agree with my stomach, but there's a lot to explore here without those. Still having fun, and at the current sale price, it's worth it.

My usual policy is to write a review after I have 100% the game, but I decided to make an exception here because of how criminally under the radar this game is. I can understand that it's not ground-breaking, but for me it strikes the perfect balance between casual and engaging. In case the trailer didn't make it clear, you clear orbs. Clearing 2 orbs of the same color at the same time increases your multiplier and hitting a red orb ends your streak. The goal of each level is to shoot all the non-red orbs. The game has somewhere around 6 types of levels: Standard layout, a race layout where you move forward while orbs appear and a maze layout where you have an item that you can rotate with a thumbstick and it has orbs on all sides of it. The remaining modes I haven't yet tried. The game had no glitches, no bugs, no performance issues and actually looks slightly better than in the trailer. It has a menu with basic options and a level select. I haven't had any nausea while playing, not even in the racing nor the rotating mode. As a final note, I wish to mention that I bought this game at 80% off for a total of 2.49€, but I would've paid up to 5€. It's nothing that will blow your mind, but it's exactly what it says on the tin, doesn't have any issues whatsoever and is just a great little casual game (which you can play very seriously and competitively!).

This is a very polished game. Relaxing game play as well. I found zero bugs thus far, and it looks like they released this game at just the right time, without having to keep patching it up, like most VR Titles do. It may be a bit overpriced at $15, but I got it on sale for less than $10, and that is worth it in my opinion if you like relaxing type games like this one. There is plenty of good content as well.