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A father and a son, and the rest of the sky Early build

Long Orbit

The last two people: a father and his eight-year-old son, crossing the stars in an ark built for 214 that is now their home. Somber, slow, and yours to walk.

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What it is

Long Orbit is a top-down pixel game about a father and his son, the last two, on the Tern — an ark built for two hundred and fourteen people that is now just their home. You are the father. He is eight; he wants to help and does not always know how, and he is not as good at hiding how afraid he is as he thinks.

It is an early build. You can fly Sol with Earth gone, walk the ship deck by deck, and land on Mercury, the Moon and Mars, where the ground is as hot or as cold as the real sun makes it and there is nothing alive, only what you can drill. The other systems come later. It plays with a keyboard, so it wants a computer.

At a glance

  • top-down pixel art, drawn in codeView
  • the father; the son is eightYou play
  • 6 sited, Sol open nowSystems
  • Mercury, the Moon and MarsLandings
  • keyboardControls
  • early build, played phase by phaseStatus

What is in it

The shape of it.

A father and his son

He names every world you pass and asks the questions you would rather not answer. Some of the answers you know, and are not saying.

A ship you live on

Walk the Tern's decks: a station at every console, a light switch in every doorway, a window you can look out of, an arcade cabinet in the lounge with her name still on the top score.

Sol, as it really is

Real worlds, with their real features and the sites people left. The lander refuses Mercury's noon and a cold-trap floor, suits are rated, and the ground's temperature comes from the sun's height.

Rivet

The ship's robot keeps its own rounds, takes the lift, and has an opinion about what you are doing. Walk up to it and ask for help.

Slow on purpose

No hunger, no meters, no timer. Silence is the default, and the two of them talk when they share a room.

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