Critter Orbit

Swap critters, merge matching ones and charge the towers before they escape!

A chain of lost critters is crawling out of a rift in space and spiralling towards the airlock of your station. Swap neighbours so that matching critters meet, and turn the chaos into chain reactions. Drag a critter onto its neighbour and the two trade places. Two of a kind merge into a bigger monster that grows and changes as it evolves. A monster of four bursts in a flash of sparks and charges the tower of its colour. Charge every tower to close the rift. Every critter that reaches the airlock gets away and costs your station a shield. When the track glows red near the exit and the critters start to panic, plan your swaps a step ahead and set off combos: each burst after the first in a chain reaction rolls the whole chain back. The puzzle plays fair. The rift sends out the same stream on every attempt, there is no countdown, and you can pause at any moment. Once you know the way, speed the game up as far as ×16. Charge the towers in the campaign, or chase your best score in the endless game, where new colours arrive and the rift keeps speeding up. Portrait, one hand, short sessions: a calm space puzzle for a short break. Critter Orbit is still growing. New levels are on the way, and what you tell us during testing shapes them.