Name: Orbital Racer
Brand: Fanatical
Price: 1.04 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Orbital Racer is currently 93% off on Fanatical — down to $1.04 from $14.99.

At 93% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Orbital Racer reaches on Fanatical — near its typical floor.

That works out to $13.95 off the Fanatical list price of $14.99.

This deal is for the PC version. Click View Deal to open the official Fanatical page — prices and regional availability are confirmed at checkout, not by GamesCreed.

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About this game

Orbital Racer is a single-player space racing sim from Polish developer Paweł Dywelski, and the hook is right there in the setup: instead of hovering cars or wings-and-thrust arcade ships, you’re flying with full six-degrees-of-freedom movement through courses built around real locations in our Solar System. It’s a small, focused game that picks a specific fantasy (racing in zero gravity) and builds its whole structure around making that feel good, or at least making it feel true to physics.

How it plays

The game splits into two modes that ask very different things of you. Action mode is the pick-up-and-go option: you strap into a ship, lean on your speed, and use powerups like missiles and mines to knock opponents around while you fight for position. It’s built for immediate, arcade-style satisfaction rather than precision flying. Simulation mode is the other half of the game, and it’s a much bigger commitment. Ships follow actual Newtonian physics, meaning momentum carries through turns, thrusters push you in ways you have to actively counter, and sliding sideways while still pointed somewhere else becomes a normal part of racing rather than a mistake. Because that style of flight isn’t intuitive, the game backs it up with a full flight school built specifically to teach Simulation mode’s handling before you’re expected to race with it. Outside the two modes, you’re working through eight locations and 24 tracks total, picking from three ship models (each with a few variants), and progressing through a career mode against AI opponents, with races you can customize to your liking.

Who it’s for

This is a game for people who like the idea of racing but want something stranger than another kart or rally sim. If you’ve ever wanted to see what podium fights look like when everyone’s still obeying inertia instead of tires and gravity, this scratches that itch. Simulation mode in particular will appeal to fans of space sims and flight sims who enjoy wrestling with a control scheme until it clicks. Action mode is there for anyone who just wants combat and speed without the physics homework. Skip it if you have no patience for a learning curve, or if you’re looking for a big multiplayer racing scene, since this is built as a single-player experience through and through.

Is it worth it?

For the audience it’s aimed at, namely players curious about a physics-driven take on racing with a real teaching structure behind it, this is a reasonable pickup, especially since indie racing sims with a genuinely different flight model don’t come along often. It’s not going to compete with big-budget racers on scope, and the single-player focus means you’re getting a personal challenge rather than a live community. That’s exactly the kind of profile that makes more sense as a sale purchase than a full-price impulse buy: go in knowing what you want (arcade thrills or a slower physics grind) and it delivers on both fronts without padding.