Fit check
Is Out of Orbit worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want spacecraft construction alongside crew administration
- Space adventure fans who want exploration and resource collection
- Players who enjoy piracy, faction choices, and managing survival needs
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a short, tightly directed campaign rather than open-ended exploration and base management
- Players who prefer minimal micromanagement instead of assigning crew duties and monitoring several survival systems
- Players looking for a conventional character-focused RPG rather than a ship, crew, and habitat management game
Our take on Out of Orbit
Rather than centering on a single hero’s progression, the game puts the spacecraft and its crew at the center of play. Construction, crew schedules, survival meters, factions, piracy, and randomly generated universes replace the more fixed party-and-quest structure common in many space RPGs.
What is Out of Orbit?
Out of Orbit combines spacecraft construction, resource management, exploration, and combat across randomly generated universes.
Players design ships, stations, and planetary bases, assign rooms, and manage power, fuel, oxygen, thirst, hunger, and radiation. Crew members can receive roles, jobs, and schedules, while happiness, loyalty, mental health, illnesses, and diseases are part of crew management. Exploration includes asteroids, comets, landable planets, wormholes, and distinct sectors. Players can collect raw materials, trade, recruit crew, raid or infiltrate enemy vessels, and encounter factions and bosses. Ships are destructible, and the game includes an editor with Steam Workshop support and more than 500 items.
How Out of Orbit plays
- 01Ship Construction
- Players can create spacecraft, stations, and planetary bases while choosing from a selection of rooms, stations, and objects.
- 02Crew Management
- Crew members receive jobs and schedules, with happiness, loyalty, mental health, illnesses, and diseases included in their management.
- 03Survival Systems
- The game tracks power, fuel, oxygen, thirst, hunger, and radiation alongside a health system.
- 04Randomized Exploration
- Wormholes lead to randomly generated universes containing different sectors, asteroids, comets, and planets that can be landed on.
- 05Ship Raiding
- Players can raid, infiltrate, destroy, or steal rival spacecraft and recruit crew members to join raids.
- 06Workshop Editor
- An in-game editor supports Steam Workshop.
Out of Orbit compared to similar games
SpaceBourne 2 is described as a single-player open-universe RPG and third-person shooter with mining, trading, piracy, crafting, and empire-building, while Out of Orbit focuses on constructing ships and bases and managing crew needs. Out of Orbit also features destructible ships, planetary bases, and randomly generated universes; SpaceBourne 2’s description highlights shooting and building an empire.
Out of Orbit: platforms & release
Is Out of Orbit worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want spacecraft construction alongside crew administration. Skip it if: players seeking a short, tightly directed campaign rather than open-ended exploration and base management.
Where can I download Out of Orbit?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Out of Orbit's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Out of Orbit on?
Windows only.
