Dangerous Orbit

Okay, this looks and feels like something someone would make in about an hour following a "How to make an Asteroids game" Youtube tutorial... The resolution is locked, and worse yet is locked into a super old 4 x 3 square resolution for the old 90s monitors before widescreen monitors became mainstream. Why you'd make a game in 2019 with this resolution is mind boggling, but why you'd sell such a game for any amount of money is even more mind boggling. The game itself is okay, but way too simple and again terrible design choices were made by the developer of this. He makes you use the "Right CTRL" to fire and "Space Bar" for special attacks, but this would have been 100 timers better if he tied them to the left and right mouse button. This should be on itch or gamejolt for FREE as a persons first game to allow other people to play and critique his first ever game, not here on Steam with an actual price tag. NOT RECOMMENDED. Even playing this as a free game from Gamejolt would typically only be done if you wanted to help the kid who made it out or were his friend, family member etc. It's just not nearly enough to be a "complete" game.

Dangerous Orbit is a badly made, unabashed ripoff of Asteroids (copyright Atari, 1979, although they have not taken any legal action against the developer at this stage). Gameplay is exactly like Asteroids, although there's some pickups added. This looks and feels like someone's game development homework. Everything in the game is asset flipped, but there's nothing unethical going on with this one, as, remarkably, the developer has properly credited the people who actually did the work to make this "game". Kudos for that. Unfortunately doing one thing right doesn't make one a talented game developer. There's a lot of problems with this Asteroids ripoff. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game only ever reached a peak player count of only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is remarkable, but also to be expected. This complete and utter rejection of the game from gamers should be a keen information point for anyone considering buying shovelware like this. Gamers just didn't take this seriously, and for good reason. Dangerous Orbit is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. If you really want to play Asteroids, Atari have released a fully modernised version of the game on Steam, or you can play it for free in a web browser (so there's just zero reason anyone should pay for this).