In-game capture
Work-in-progress trailer
Not just another trading game
Orbital Fortune is a single-player space trading game set in one living star system around an amber gas giant. Five rival companies are racing you to the first million credits of profit, and every cargo you buy, every run you fly and every job you take shapes the system they trade in.
Trade, mine, carry passengers or take the barman’s quieter work. How you make your fortune is up to you. A full race to the million takes about six hours.
Commercial hub
A bright ring station over the gas giant, with deep markets and cheap fuel.
Frontier port
A small, welcoming anchorage at the edge of mapped routes. Robo Barman keeps the bar.
Industrial refinery
A hot, noisy processing station serving miners and bulk haulers. It buys every ore.
Passenger port
A busy departure point for liners, couriers and long-haul travellers.
Flight
Fly the ship yourself, or engage the cruise drive and let it carry you across the system. The longest trips take about ten minutes.
Dock with the docking computer or land on the pad by hand. At Halcyon Exchange and Lantern’s Rest, step out of the ship and walk the station on foot.
Ways to make your fortune
Switch between them whenever you like, and follow the money as the system shifts.
Trade
Every station’s market holds real, finite stock. Buy where a good is made, carry it to a station that wants it, and sell before someone else does. Every unit bought or sold moves the price, whether you traded it or a rival did.
On the market now
Mine
Ore fields form around the system and move on after 8 to 15 minutes: mostly common, sometimes rare, now and then exotic. Send your mining drones out to the rocks and they drill ferrite, water ice, comet amber and echo crystal into your hold. Ore only comes from miners, so when nobody mines, the refineries run short.
Ore scanners
Passengers & missions
Every station posts a mission board, generated from the world’s real needs. Seat travellers and VIPs in your cabin, and they will mind the time. Deadlines run on active play time, so the clock stops when you do. Fail or abandon a job and your standing pays for it.
Trade radioThe Long Haul
The system reacts
The markets, the stations and your rivals all respond to what you do.
Every station’s market holds real stock, and prices move as goods change hands. Buy a station out and its price climbs. Flood it and the price falls. Shortages and surpluses are genuine, and the trade radio picks up the news.
Read from the report pictured above. Prices move.
The race
of profit. The first company there wins.
Name your company, then race five rival companies to the first million. They trade, mine and take work in the same economy you do, and you know them by what they leave behind: emptied markets, taken jobs and news on the radio.
The State of play shows the standings. A Rival Intel Module shows where each rival is heading and what it is doing.
Bring a station what it needs and your standing there rises. Fail or abandon a job there and it falls. At Halcyon Exchange, good standing brings cheaper fuel and scanners. At Lantern’s Rest, it opens the prospectors’ ore charts.
A run between stations is rarely quiet. A solar flare scrambles your sensors and radio. An engine flames out and has to be restarted. A suspicious ship demands a toll, and you can pay it or run for it. Some surprises pay, like a distress beacon answered or salvage scooped up along the way.
Gallery
Every image here is a real capture from the game as it is today. Select one to see it full size.
In development
Orbital Fortune is a work in progress. These are planned and being built. None of them is in the game yet, and the details may change.
Coming to the race for the first million.
Twenty planned, with eight chosen for each game.
Buy bigger ships as your fortune grows.
Goods you won’t find on the open market, and the risks that come with them.
Passenger and trading arcs from the barman, each ending with its own unique module.
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