Worbital

Worbital is real-time space warfare built on artillery and gravity. Each player commands a planet, raising support structures and ever more powerful weapons with one goal: be the last civilization standing in the solar system.

Gravity is the puzzle. Because it constantly shifts, you have to curve your shots through space to land maximum damage, slinging asteroids, opening black holes and calling down solar flares. The chaos compounds fast, since planets explode and can drag other planets down with them, and then the sun itself goes, which is when, the game suggests, the real fun begins.

Between the mayhem there is genuine tactics. You choose a loadout from dozens of unique weapons and defenses, including railguns, lasers, World Rammers, magnets, orbit boosters, shields, attack ships and colonizers, and time your attacks and counters. Modes cover a single-player campaign and skirmish, custom-rules matches, online multiplayer and split-screen play, with each split-screen player needing a gamepad.