Dark Orbit (2001)
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Shooter
Themes:Thriller, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Dark Orbit is an action/role-playing game where you pilot your mining ship through the wind-swept canyons of the tenth planet, Nibiru. An ancient alien species is awakening from deep inside the core, and their numbers are growing by the hour! Your primary goal is simple -- get off the planet alive.
To do this, you will need to use your brain as well as your brawn. There are wrecks out on the surface... hulks of technology that might help you in your grim journey. The planet is also littered with Malidium, a mysterious compound that can be formed into almost any molecular structure.
By collecting Malidium, and scanning in the patterns from salvaged ships, engines and weapons, you can build new items with the Matrix Formers back at your base. You will need every bit of help you can get to escape the Legion of Abaddon!Show more
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I remember playing this game as a kid, and it's always stuck with me.
The feeling of being alone in an alien world, trying to survive and accomplish your goals, somehow never really turned up that same way in any other game.
- For a long time I could not remember the name or anything that would help me find it. But thanks to a community that specializes in finding forgotten games, I found it again. - but unfortunately the original game is abandonware, and its copies are not necessarily safe to play either.
Would love to have a cleaned up working version up on GoG
I used to play this game at my grandparents house on Windows XP when I was just a little kid! It has an expansive customization and progression system and is a gem I hold near and dear to my heart. I would love to play it again someday.
In 2001 WildTangent Game Studios released what was easily one of my all-time favorite video games. The game was called Dark Orbit and it was a top down perspective game where you play as a mining pod pilot who is trying find a way off an alien planet swarming with hostel bug like aliens that are constantly trying to destroy your pod as you scavenge for the supplies needed to fight your way off the planet.
I’m not sure when, but at some point WildTangent made a deal with HP computers to put a free demo of Dark Orbit, along with several other games, on most new HP computers running windows XP back in the late 2000s, and as luck would have it, I ended up with one of those computers. Quickly hooked playing the demo I forked over the $20 necessary to buy the full version of the game, which at the time was a rather substantial sum of money for me. Though proving to be well worth every penny, Dark Orbit was a game I played often and always found enjoyable, that is until about 13+ years ago, in 2007, when I started attending college, and I stopped playing it all together.
Now I’d like to be able to claim that the reason I no longer played Dark Orbit when I started college was because I was such an astute student that I simply didn’t have time for video games or other such nonacademic distractions, but that would be a total lie. The truth of the matter was that I simply couldn’t play Dark Orbit, because when trying to install Dark Orbit on my new campus issued laptop, I found that WildTangent’s WebDriver Digital Rights Management, or DRM for short, it used to prevent unauthorized access had been blocked by the campus security software which had flagged WebDriver DRM as malware, correctly so I should note. I therefore was not able to install and play a game I legally owned, due to the parasitic DRM it came with.
Soon after WildTangent discontinued all its games that used the WebDriver DRM, and I have not played it since leaving for college over 18 years ago!
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