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Orbitals
Team up as Maki and Omura, two inseparable explorers with a whole lot more determination than experience. You’ll brave the perils of space in search of help for their crumbling station home, now trapped within a supernatural cosmic storm.
Details
- Released
- September 2, 2026
- Developer
- Shapefarm
- Publisher
- Kepler Interactive
- Platforms
- Switch 2
How it plays
Up to 2 players
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Orbitals Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Orbitals is a visually spectacular co-op game that kept me smiling from start to finish, with loads of clever ideas for you and a friend to experience.
Developed by Shapefarm, which features former members of the Hazelight team, can Orbitals manage to carve out its own identity?
Orbitals | Switch 2 Review | The co-op adventure that pays homage to '80s anime and reminds us of all the beauty of gaming with friends.
Review: A co-op only experience in a similar vein to It Takes Two, Orbitals sets itself apart with its gorgeous anime visuals.
Orbitals takes the co-op splitscreen platforming that made games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two winners and applies it to a retro anime-style sci-fi adventure.
Orbitals delivers excellent two-player puzzles, constant teamwork, anime-inspired visuals, and charming characters in a short but rewarding co-op adventure.
The space-team continuum.If art direction alone decided the year's best game, we could skip game-of-the-year voting and crown Orbitals the [...]
Is the anime-infused cooperative adventure all we've been looking for?
Orbitals looks incredible and it's a great time to play with a friend, but can't quite match the sheer inventiveness of It Takes Two.
Immaculate anime stylings aside, Orbitals doesn't bring an awful lot to the post-It Takes Two co-op renaissance, but it's rarely a bad hang. Our review.
Orbitals is full of joy, wonder, and novel ideas from start to finish, which is why it's such a shame its runtime is so brief. J Simpson reviews.