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Orbit - Playing with Gravity

A meditative physics puzzler

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Simulation

Languages

English

Orbit is a gravity simulator at the heart of a puzzle game. Launch planets to see if they can survive the pull of black holes. The game features 45 hand-crafted levels with increasing complexity, plus a sandbox mode where you can create your own systems. The minimalist visuals and soothing trails make it a highly meditative experience.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

92/100

Orbit is a rare gem that manages to be both a challenging physics puzzle and a deeply meditative experience. The core loop of flicking a planet and watching its trail form a complex, geometric pattern around black holes is hypnotizing. It feels less like a game and more like a collaboration with gravity itself.

The community levels are the real star here. After finishing the 45 base levels, the sandbox and user-created content offer practically infinite gameplay. The minimalist aesthetic—bright colors against a deep black void—makes it one of the most visually pleasing games on the App Store. It’s a perfect example of 'less is more' in game design.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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45 free levels with unique mechanics

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Sandbox mode for custom level creation

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Infinite community-created levels

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Mesmerizing physics-based visuals

5

Dark Mode and minimalist aesthetic

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Unlike standard black holes, repulsive ones push planets away, requiring different launch strategies to maintain orbit.

Ratings & Reviews

Holy Jesus
Thu Feb 02 2017 MayahMouse

This is a really freaking great game. There are no words for how ingenious it is. It runs pretty smoothly for me. The simplistic design is very appealing, and I love making massive clusters of planets and have their trails just go crazy. The puzzles are challenging enough to not be unentertaining, not hard enough to be (very) frustrating, and creative enough to make you think. The mechanics are pretty great, and my friends and I had a good time puzzling over the solutions. (*obligatory uncomfortable silence after pun*) One thing I must note, however, is that you can solve a bunch of the levels by just spamming planets. Maybe add a limit to the planets per level? The user-created levels were a great idea, and I fully support the idea of having to pay for them- and I would buy them if I wasn't poor- but I mostly see the same or similar things in the user-made levels. You can only do so much with what's given, I guess. I don't know what there is, I'm still poor. The only problem I can see is that there isn't very many levels, and after I got sick of the same user-made levels over and over again I didn't play as much. I don't think it's fair to ask for more levels, as I know how much effort can go into thinking of a good puzzle, but I did all the levels in around 2 weeks, playing during lunch breaks.

If you’re autistic or ND this was MADE FOR YOU
Thu Mar 09 2023 bunnybuggsuwu

I’m autistic and I’ve been having an extremely hard time coping lately. In turn, I’ve been trying absolutely anything and everything to ease what felt like “spiraling into the abyss” for weeks. I’m not even being dramatic when I tell you playing this game caused me to ✨CRY TEARS OF JOY✨ because of how i was calmed almost instantaneously. The music sets a mood of tranquility and the “booping” audio choice of the planets is consistent, not sharp at all- it’s usually irregularities in things like this that can cause irritability so this was quite refreshing. Ps I really appreciate the messages the developer sprinkles in as you level up. Their genuine and endearing. I look forward to seeing what else they come out with.

Great game... if you can get it to open
Thu Jul 26 2018 AwesomeAlex1234

I downloaded the game and I played it. It was a good game, watching the planets orbit black holes is really satisfying, and getting to interact with it is even better! But, of course, not everything is perfect. So, I was playing the game and then 10 minutes into playing it the game just crashed. Why? Could be something on my end, but I doubt it, being that this has never happened to me before with other apps. So I tried to open the game again but it wouldn’t let me. Every time I tried I’d see a gray screen for about five seconds and then the game would automatically close. I deleted the game and reinstalled it and it worked for another 10 minutes and crashed again. As I said, could be something on my end, but I doubt it. Overall great game, but what’s the point of a game if you can’t play it?

WOW
Sun Jan 21 2024 GavsterO8

honestly, this is one of the best games i have on my phone (especially after buying sandbox mode + no ads). though i would really love to see a dark mode implemented and some of the later levels with moving black holes fixed, as well as the ability to add a border in sandbox mode and to be able to chose which bodies to have collision turned off individually, this is an incredible game. being able to adjust the camera would be nice however i understand that creating these games takes a lot of time and effort and i would like to acknowledge the amount of work that the creator put into this brilliant app. well done, this is a really awesome game and i can’t wait to see what it becomes in the future.

So relaxing
Thu Jul 20 2023 Tree Slayer 86

I found this game on a day I really needed it. I had a very hard long stressful day at work. I have a crew of 30 guys doing tree work and it’s super stressful at times and on this day I was feeling so hopeless and defeated and came across this game while looking for a good constellation map app….started playing it and the mixture between the beautiful music and just being able to focus on letting the little planets go at the right time is just like a breath of fresh air….we as people think we are so big but we are like a spec of dust in a lot bigger picture….I bought the extras in the app to support the creator bc small business count more to me then corporations….very glad I found this….thank you Chetan

Crazy good
Mon Dec 24 2018 aeouaoeu

This is super cool. Simple but packed deep and is very engaging while also somehow being incredibly relaxing at the same time. Playground is definitely worth buying. Only requests are for the game to be full screen on iPhone X, and for improvements to the playground editor. Editor needs more intuitive way of interacting with existing objects on the screen. I’ve only occasionally been able to edit an object; not sure what conditions must exist to do that. I usually have to clear all on screen when I make any mistake. I’d like to be able to put an object on screen, interact with it and edit the parameters as needed. The editor controls are very tiny on phone (maybe increase size, show all at same time to avoid all the sub menu clicking and searching for the control I want) and the overlay pop up text on the control just gets in the way (simple labels on controls would avoid need to describe what the icon does). Accidentally adding objects under the control menu is frustrating. Selective edit and remove item may help with that, or allow edit/move item. Thanks. It’s a great app with tons of potential!

Oh my god!
Fri Jul 31 2020 Brad975385477

This game is amazing it’s so relaxing and runs smoothly, there is nothing I would change. This game is amazing but there is a limited amount of levels created for the “story mode”, I do understand that you have to take a long time to make each level. The levels are also easy beatable if you just spam planets. I do understand why there is a price on the “sandbox mode” but I do thing that the should be a free trial so you can experiment with the physics. Other than those things I would highly recommend this game to anyone, I have also tried playing other games like this and nothing even comes close to this game. Once again this is an amazing game, props to you creators.

Nice idea, but laws of physics seem off
Thu Nov 12 2020 I100min

Liked the app very much and it is the most entertaining app I have, even bought the full pack. But laws of physics seem to not be enforced. In couple examples of repulsive black hole traps a single planet can cease to move over time, which contradicts to momentum conservation. If you create just a single black hole And let a planet revolve around, the orbit presses. That can only happen in non spherical gravity field. If you create two black holes without motion, disable collisions and let them fall to one another, they eventually fly to infinity after a single interaction. That all can be explained by movement computation done on time interval basis, not every length certain step in space being calculated. I think, author needs to pay more attention to realism i on f the game

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