Good Game, but please add more content like more Upgrades for the Defense towers, balance a little bit the Mobs and let us destroy the Spawnpoints of the Aliens.(add some little Houses etc.)
This is not a $15 game. No tutorial or help, nothing is explained. Limited minimap, limited tech tree, no story. Random generation can put the enemy spawner right next to the ship and you can not destroy it.
Starcraft Remastered is $15. That game has 3 faction with their own units and tech trees, a story, and a lot more. If you are looking for a RTS buy that instead or some other game.
Dude, this is one developer putting in a lot of time and effort. While I agree the price isn't the best, you can't compare a billion dollar company to a indie developer. They can afford to price it relatively cheap.
Even compared to other indie / small developers this is low content. Thee are a ton of free web games that have more content: Epic Battle Fantasy series of games. GemCraft series of games. Cookie Clicker. Cursed Treasure series of games. Stellar Squad, Kingdom Rush series of games. Rebuild. Creeper World series. Also there are many small / indie developers who have made paid games with more content: Terraria. Stardew Valley. Night in the Woods. Oxenfree. FTL: Faster Than Light. The Binding of Isaac. Deeponia series of games. Celeste.
You can go down the list then: there are literally thousands of games out there that charge as much as or higher than From Orbit that don't even have half as much content. Go rail on them.
You should also only be referencing games that were made by one person. Deponia was made by a 90-employee company. Not all devs can be one-hit wonders like ConcernedApe behind Stardew Valley, nor should they be expected to.
That said, I agree that From Orbit is overpriced for its content. I thought the black hole at the end of the system map was just one segment of eight, but that was the end of the game. So, I'm glad I was able to play it at no cost, but I'm also not complaining.
This game is sort of a hybrid of tower defense + real-time strategy. Have you played any of these types of games?
You have four workers who can morph between different roles, whose descriptions show when you hover your mouse over them in the top-left. Type 1 is the Defender, the only one who can attack enemies, for example.
Use the workers to harvest as many resources as possible across the planet. Have them attack enemies, heal each other, and build turrets/repair the ship as needed. Don't lose your ship and try to not let anyone die. Build one turret next to your ship per (threat level - 1). Then at the system map, use the resources you gathered to upgrade your stuff.
The graphics and music are beautiful but it desperately needs a tutorial. You can't just throw players into the deep end and expect them to know what to do!
I love how movement commands are retained across role transformations!
I wish there was Shift-queuing of waypoints, like to harvest this and then harvest that and/or pick up multiple little minerals off of the ground. But I suppose part of the intensity of the game is the micromanagement; I'm not sure of whether this was done intentionally.
It's a bit weird how enemies keep moving in place once the rocket takes off (although this doesn't seem to happen if there is a lot of turrets pecking at them).
Some kind of indicator that tells us whether a robot is busy or idling would be helpful, as opposed to having to manually monitor each one.
A massive explosion graphic when the space ship is destroyed instead of just disappearing would be nice, which feels like a letdown. Same with the robots; I want to emotionally witness my failure spectacularly, haha!
Demolishing doesn't seem to do anything; I select a building, click it, and nothing happens.
Robots can get stuck running in place, especially in tight spots around the spaceship if turrets are built around it and it lands in an area surrounded by canyons. I also saw 3 area-patrolling enemies eternally trying to move into the same hex from three perfectly triangular angles, too, which was awkward to witness.
It'd be nice to be able to pick default roles that robots will land on planets as, as opposed to the current issue of having to remember to decide on them before leaving the previous planet.
Currently we are unable to press Escape to pause the game while the ship is landing on a planet.
There is no indicator to indicate to us already-explored planets without clicking on them; a border highlight would be nice.
Depending on the position of a harvester robot, the brightness of the mining laser itself can mask the mineral-count number. It would be nice if the number had a black outline.
Enemy graphics can perfectly overlap each other, sometimes. It's a bit weird to see an enemy suddenly split into two.
At first I didn't understand that the spaceship was self-armed as I couldn't differentiate the graphics well. It would be nice if there was a small laser cannon on its central black strip that spins around like the turrets' heads do, so it can be more easily noticed.
Absolutely. If a good game goes on a giveaway, and I still can't afford to tip, then a thorough review is the bare minimum with which I should reciprocate. Further thoughts now that I beat it:
Just a tiny thing: it would be interesting to see the new rescued robot be a random type instead of always a Defender.
I realized that that movement bug can be reproduced if you select multiple robots and try to run them into a wall, so this could help with debugging. Also, if you have an Engineer on one side of a mineral deposit, and have it construct an extractor on the exact opposite side, it will run forever into the mineral deposit instead of around it to get to working on the extractor (at least, it did that for me most recently).
Shift+clicking other robots to add to your current selection would be nice. Currently Shift does nothing in that regard. As for this, I think the Shift prerequisite to select units is the biggest issue that I had with FO's keyboard shortcuts, when it compares to other RTSs (I've played the gamut... StarCraft, TA, WC3, Homeworld, Red Alert): considering how the max amount of special abilities per class is only two anyways, those could be mapped out to, say, R and T (or, at best, be user-defined), and have unit selection be maintained in the classic numerical way of other games – without needing Shift.
I was a bit upset that defeating the boss instantly triggers the ship to leave, which made me get caught off-guard by the abrupt ending. I was upset because it felt like my valuable robots which fought so hard against the boss were simply left behind as meaningless tools; I wasn't given a chance to return them to the ship. Speaking of that stage: about the EMP effect on the ship, it would have been very interesting if its laser was disabled, to force the player to rely on turrets alone. It felt a bit too easy once I got into the groove of four turrets + one engineer for constant self-repair while the 3 others crawled across the map as one solid group.
Despite these little matters, it is a cool game and a very interesting take on the tower defense genre! The closest thing I can think of that I've also played is Infested Planet (in which the focus is to destroy those enemy spawn points outright, before they overwhelm you!).
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Good Game, but please add more content like more Upgrades for the Defense towers, balance a little bit the Mobs and let us destroy the Spawnpoints of the Aliens.(add some little Houses etc.)
This is not a $15 game. No tutorial or help, nothing is explained. Limited minimap, limited tech tree, no story. Random generation can put the enemy spawner right next to the ship and you can not destroy it.
Starcraft Remastered is $15. That game has 3 faction with their own units and tech trees, a story, and a lot more. If you are looking for a RTS buy that instead or some other game.
Dude its free
It's on sale now. The regular price is $15. There are games with far more content and polish for that price.
Dude, this is one developer putting in a lot of time and effort. While I agree the price isn't the best, you can't compare a billion dollar company to a indie developer. They can afford to price it relatively cheap.
Even compared to other indie / small developers this is low content. Thee are a ton of free web games that have more content: Epic Battle Fantasy series of games. GemCraft series of games. Cookie Clicker. Cursed Treasure series of games. Stellar Squad, Kingdom Rush series of games. Rebuild. Creeper World series. Also there are many small / indie developers who have made paid games with more content: Terraria. Stardew Valley. Night in the Woods. Oxenfree. FTL: Faster Than Light. The Binding of Isaac. Deeponia series of games. Celeste.
You can go down the list then: there are literally thousands of games out there that charge as much as or higher than From Orbit that don't even have half as much content. Go rail on them.
You should also only be referencing games that were made by one person. Deponia was made by a 90-employee company. Not all devs can be one-hit wonders like ConcernedApe behind Stardew Valley, nor should they be expected to.
That said, I agree that From Orbit is overpriced for its content. I thought the black hole at the end of the system map was just one segment of eight, but that was the end of the game. So, I'm glad I was able to play it at no cost, but I'm also not complaining.
Is there any tutorial? I feel completely lost.
This game is sort of a hybrid of tower defense + real-time strategy. Have you played any of these types of games?
You have four workers who can morph between different roles, whose descriptions show when you hover your mouse over them in the top-left. Type 1 is the Defender, the only one who can attack enemies, for example.
Use the workers to harvest as many resources as possible across the planet. Have them attack enemies, heal each other, and build turrets/repair the ship as needed. Don't lose your ship and try to not let anyone die. Build one turret next to your ship per (threat level - 1). Then at the system map, use the resources you gathered to upgrade your stuff.
I would prefer a sandbox mode but really good
Honestly a great RTS, Could use some polishing in my regard
The graphics and music are beautiful but it desperately needs a tutorial. You can't just throw players into the deep end and expect them to know what to do!
I completely agree, home some tutorial will help to get started
is it mp?
From Orbit is a single player game
A solid game that I've reviewed in my latest video!
Jump to 3:24 for the review!
Link:
Great game, love to see its made in unity. Kinda wish there was a tutorial level, but its not to hard to grasp
Incredibly fun!
Hey I bought the game on Steam sale but want a copy for my linux laptop. Hope you don't mind me not paying here. Love the art style.
I use linux too, but im having problem running the game, can you help?
May install the itch.io installer.
Nice game, great job ! Can you take off with more than 4 crew members ?
Nope. It's mentioned somewhere in the game that the spacecraft can only hold four (if you mouse over the bottom-left buttons while on a planet).
Thx !
Really like the look and feel of the game, but I can't seem to get any sound. Playing on Linux through the itch store.
this games looks realy cool but how do you play it and what are the controls
WASD, number keys, and the mouse. You should already be familiar with real-time strategy and tower defense games for the most optimal experience.
Muy buen juego. Very good Game. Lo amo. I Love From Orbit
Very cool FTL-like!
Thank you for the detailed feedback!
Absolutely. If a good game goes on a giveaway, and I still can't afford to tip, then a thorough review is the bare minimum with which I should reciprocate. Further thoughts now that I beat it:
Speaking of that stage: about the EMP effect on the ship, it would have been very interesting if its laser was disabled, to force the player to rely on turrets alone. It felt a bit too easy once I got into the groove of four turrets + one engineer for constant self-repair while the 3 others crawled across the map as one solid group.
Despite these little matters, it is a cool game and a very interesting take on the tower defense genre! The closest thing I can think of that I've also played is Infested Planet (in which the focus is to destroy those enemy spawn points outright, before they overwhelm you!).
Nice looking game ,thanks !
I don't know the game , but the shader is amazing
Very fun game. I highly recommend it. Here is my let's play of a prerelease version: