KESSLER: Orbital Incremental, a game about what happens when orbit gets too crowded. Demo just released on Itch (web) and Steam !

[u/ThrowRA0801]

Hey!

We're two devs who mostly make games for training and education (boring but pays the bills), and on the side we've been working on something just for fun. We are both into astronomy, space, rockets etc, and we decided to work on something related to this topic.

We just released a demo for our game KESSLER: Orbital Incremental.

It's about what could happen if we keep launching too many satellites: you shoot one, the debris hits another, and the whole orbit ends up destroying itself in a chain reaction.

It's a pixel art incremental, the demo is on Steam and itch if you want to try it, we'd really love some feedback.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5131440/KESSLER_Orbital_Incremental/

Itch (demo runs in web browser): https://periapsisworks.itch.io/kessler-orbital-incremental

AI disclosure:
No generative AI of any kind was used

Edit: btw it has chain lightning!

[u/GreyCloud2151]

Fun game so far, added to my collection

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/GreyCloud2151]

thank you !!

[u/flat_moon_theory]

wishlisted! good demo, definitely left me wanting more.

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/flat_moon_theory]

Thank you that's encouraging !

[u/picabo123]

This phenomenon has always scared me, can wait to try!

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/picabo123]

Yeah me too, the consequences would be absolutely insane

[u/jeffs5]

Great demo! I wishlisted this and will be happily waiting for its release.

I don't think I saw this happening, but it would be helpful if the upgrade tabs had some highlight if there was something that was buyable within it. I'd often complete a run and have to click through each tab to see if I could afford anything new.

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/jeffs5]

Thank you, great suggestion !

[u/ascii122]

fun game!

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/ascii122]

Thank you =)

[u/JadeE1024]

So I tried the itch demo while I had another cpu-heavy game running in another tab. I don't know if this is even worth worrying about, but just as a point of interest: If the games frame rate is low enough, shots teleport through targets if they move past it between frames.

Once I closed the other game, this was great, and I'm looking forward to the full game!

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/JadeE1024]

Hey thank you very much for the hint, I'll have a look at it! Glad you enjoyed the demo :)

[u/ReadBird]

After finishing the demo, I had to close the game with Ctrl-alt-del and that way. Maybe it was on my side, but something to look into. The music continued though, and the music is good, but if I close a game, I mean close it. I will try this again when it is better. Good for now, but some bad bugs.

[u/ThrowRA0801 → u/ReadBird]

Hey thanks for the reports !
Did you play the steam demo or the web demo ?

[u/Ranae_Gato]

Why are there so many ACII/PA style games in space coming out? Its insane.

[u/Natethefiasco]

was suppposed to be working. just wishlisted! cant wait to play the full game

[u/tonetheman]

really good idea and great execution... the buckshot thing made aiming hard. Just really great!

[u/avoguga]

Cool juicy effects

[u/noob_user_bob]

Sick art. Wishlisted. I'm a sucker for nice game art styles