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Factsheet

Game

Almost in Orbit

Developer

Simple Ideas — one-person studio

Based in

İzmir, Türkiye

Release

July 2026

Platforms

iOS · Android

Price

$2.99 — premium, no ads, no IAP

Genre

Roguelite shoot-'em-up, portrait

Engine

Unity

Website

simpleideas.net

Press contact

salih@simpleideas.net

Description

Short. Almost in Orbit is a handcrafted roguelite space shooter for phones — one-thumb controls, branching sector maps, stackable elemental drones and three screen-filling bosses. $2.99, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Long.Almost in Orbit strips the roguelite run down to something you can play with one thumb on the bus, then layers real depth on top. Each climb generates a branching sector map: fight through choreographed swarm formations, gamble on elite encounters, mine meteor fields for boosts, or duck into a shop to reroll your build. Elemental drones — ice, fire, lightning and poison, three tiers each — stack into wildly different loadouts, and every sector ends in a multi-phase boss built to fill a phone screen. Death sends you home with currency for permanent upgrades, so every run makes the next one meaner. It's a premium game the old way: pay once, own everything, made start to finish by one person.

Key features

• Branching, regenerating sector maps — battles, elites, shops, meteor fields and rest stops
• Choreographed enemy swarms in eight formation patterns; full-clearing a wave drops a fire-rate boost
• Ice, fire, lightning and poison drones, three tiers each, for wildly different builds
• Three multi-phase bosses: a shielded capital ship, a carrier mothership, a beam-sweeping dreadnought
• Permanent upgrades persist between runs — the sector resets, your arsenal doesn't
• Premium: $2.99 once. No ads, no in-app purchases, no energy timers

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A full-resolution bundle (assets/presskit.zip) will be linked here with the launch build. Until then, any image above is fair game.

Videos & streaming

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About Simple Ideas

Simple Ideas is Salih — a one-person studio in İzmir, Türkiye. Five years of shipping mobile apps, a psychology degree, and a lifelong shmup habit that finally became a game. Almost in Orbit is the studio's first title: designed, coded, balanced and launched by the same pair of hands.