Orbital purgatory

An endless purgatory. Can you escape?

Orbital Purgatory is a one-tap arcade game you play in your browser, on your phone or your computer. You circle a planet. Tap, and you fly off in a straight line towards the next one. Catch its orbit and keep climbing. Miss, and the purgatory keeps you.

Easy to learn, hard to master, and every sector is faster than the last. You're not climbing alone, either: something guards the ascent… and something else is watching.

HOW TO PLAY

• Tap, click or press Space. That's the only control.
• A guide line shows where you'll go if you tap now. Cyan: you'll make it into orbit. Gold: you'll skim the planet's surface for a PERFECT. Red: wait, you'd crash. Further up, the line keeps only its warnings: red if you'd crash, grey if you'd get lost.
• PERFECTs raise your multiplier, up to x10. A normal landing sends it back to x1.
• Jump the moment you enter an orbit and your ship zigzags from planet to planet. Five zigzags in a row add +1 to your multiplier; land a PERFECT within the next five to keep it and earn another.
• Every ten planets, a new sector: new colours, new music, more speed.
• The first time you play, a short tutorial walks you through it. You can't lose there.

THE CLIMB

• In sector 4, something awakens. You unlock gifts: talents you choose to help you climb further, like a meteor shield or a laser cannon.
• From then on, every sector you reach becomes a ledge: start your next run from there. (Runs from a ledge earn experience but don't count for the leaderboard.)
• A Guardian watches over the ascent. Very few have reached sector 8.

COMPETE

• Daily challenge: a new map every day, the same for everyone, with a different twist each day: clock, pull, meteor shower, zigzag or classic. Three scored tries, and your best one counts. No gifts, no revives: pure skill. Share your result when you're done.
• Weekly prize: top the weekly league (your best score from each day's challenge, added up) and the Judge of Purgatory set is yours.
• Season 1, until November 8: the top 3 win the Lord of Purgatory set, crowned in gold, silver or bronze. Never sold. Only earned.
• Fair play: every ranked run is replayed on the server, tap by tap, to check the score is real.

UNLOCK

• Spaceships, trails, auras and effects, all earned by playing. Nothing is sold for real money.
• 44 achievements.

FREE, NO ADS

There are no ads in this version, and everything is free. If you enjoy the game and want to support it, the "Support this game" button is right here on the page. If not, just play: it's free either way.

COMING NEXT

• Accounts, to keep your progress across devices.
• Season 2.
• Google Play.
• And whatever lies above sector 8…

Made by one person in Spain. Feedback, bug reports and high scores are very welcome in the comments.

English and Spanish (change it in Settings).

Website: orbitalpurgatory.com