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Today’s Spotlight is Worbital, a new interplanetary artillery game by Team Jolly Roger and Advanced Interactive Games.
Build up your arsenal of planet-killing weaponry and defensive technology and wage an apocalyptic war where only one civilization will be left standing. Use gravity and orbital patterns to sling projectiles across the solar system at your enemies. Deploy energy shields or perform well-timed dodges to avoid enemy attacks. You can check out the launch trailer above.
Worbital was built with multiplayer in mind, and supports online and split screen, but it does feature a single player campaign and AI skirmish matches.
Worbital is now available on Windows PC and Mac via Steam for $19.99. It will be coming to PS4, Switch, and Xbox One sometime later this year.
Here’s a rundown of the game:
With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
Break the Space!
Worbital is space war in real-time with tension-filled gameplay and gravitational destruction. Each player commandeers a planet, building support structures and increasingly powerful weapons. Use your weaponry to destroy enemy planets and wreak total havoc to the solar system. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
Key Features:
- INTERPLANETARY ARTILLERY WARFARE – Exploit the shifting gravity by maneuvering your shots across space to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. Sling asteroids, create black holes, make it rain with solar flares!
- COSMIC CHAOS – Planets blow up. They might take other planets with them. Then the sun explodes. Then the real fun begins.
- PREPARATION, BUILDING, TACTICS – Railguns, Lasers, World Rammers, Magnets, Orbit Boosters, Shield Defenses, Attack Ships, Colonizers… Pick your loadout from dozens of unique weapons!
- 100% PSEUDO-SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE – Or: How we learned to stop worrying about realism and love the mayhem.
- HYPE-FILLED OBLITERATION OF YOUR CLOSE AND DISTANT FRIENDS – Make your opponents scream with perfectly-timed attacks and defenses, and hope they’re still your friends the next day.
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