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Art Style: Orbient

In Orbient, players control a white star. The game starts with the white star able to take 5 hits before it is destroyed. To make it grow, the player must collide his/her star with a similar-sized, blue star…

80 29 September 2008

Art Style: Orbient is a puzzle developed by Skip Ltd., released 29 September 2008 on Wii.

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What Art Style: Orbient is

Art Style: Orbient is a puzzle game developed by Skip Ltd. and released in 2008. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Orbient, players control a white star. The game starts with the white star able to take 5 hits before it is destroyed. To make it grow, the player must collide his/her star with a similar-sized, blue star. Stars smaller than the player's star are gray-colored. Colliding with these stars will not change the white star's size, but if the player positions the white star just right, the gray star will orbit the white and become a satellite. Red stars are bigger than the white. The white star is able to orbit red stars to help travel through space. Whenever the white star grows large enough, the target star glows orange, and is able to be a satellite; as soon as that happens, a small crescent…
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Art Style: Orbient holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Art Style: Orbient launched on 29 September 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, World of Goo.

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When did Art Style: Orbient come out?
Art Style: Orbient was released on 29 September 2008 for Wii.

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