Orbex is a marble shooter of the old school. You shoot from the middle, match three or more of the same color, and clear the chain before it arrives. Ten seconds to understand. Forty levels later it is still teaching you things.

MORE THAN 80 LEVELS ACROSS TEN WORLDS

Dinosaurs, Egypt, Greece, Atlantis, Medieval, Nordic, Asia, Pirates, Modern Day and Space. Every world has its own art, its own soundtrack, its own collectibles and a boss whose powerful attacks will push your skill and your reflexes to the limit.

THREE WAYS TO PLAY

The campaign, an endless survival run on the levels you have already cleared, and a weekly challenge: the same level for everyone, no items allowed, and a prize just for taking part.

SEASONAL EVENTS

Every so often a limited-time event takes over: summer, Halloween, the winter holidays... Just play your normal games and you earn the event currency, then spend it on avatars, frames, orb skins and menu backgrounds made for that season and no other. When the event closes they go with it, and whatever you claimed stays yours forever.

YOUR SCORE IS YOURS

Nothing you can buy will move it. Not a power-up, not a skin, not a pack. Leaderboards per level, per world and worldwide, and the only way up is to play better.

NO FAKE WALLS

Nobody drops an impossible level at number 12 to make you reach for your wallet. A free chest every day. Three item slots for when a chain gets away from you: bomb, shield, slow, wildcard, pushback and more.

MADE BY ONE PERSON

Every level, every drawing, every line of code. Modest tools, a lot of stubbornness, and months spent on details you might only catch on your third run. There is no studio behind Orbex deciding how much a level should hurt before you pay. It is the game I wanted to play myself, and I put everything I had into it.

ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO

Daily and weekly quests, with an extra reward if you clear them all. Over 60 achievements. And you can add friends and see how you stack up against them.

MAKE IT YOURS

An orb skin for every world and plenty of menu backgrounds. Avatars and profile frames to collect and show off to other players. Daily rewards that get better the longer your streak survives, and more along the way.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE

English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese (Brazil), French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian. The game picks yours the first time you open it.

EASY ON YOU AND ON YOUR PHONE

Landscape, 60 FPS, works from Android 7.0. It loads fast and it will not cook your battery. And if green and red look the same to you, colorblind mode swaps the orb palette for one you can tell apart, and you can turn it on mid-game.

WHAT COMES NEXT

Orbex keeps growing. If you like it, tell me what you want to see next: I read every review and I use them to decide what gets built.