Zenta Orbit

About this game

Play a free space survival roguelite online, no download. For fans of Vampire Survivors and idle incremental games: your planet has no weapon, so swing the ring of rocks around it. Hold to pull it in tight and white-hot, let go to fling it wide, smash comets, catch new rocks and grow your hits into the millions.

How to play Zenta Orbit

Zenta Orbit is an endless survival game where your planet has no weapon. The rocks orbiting it are your shield and your hammer: every comet that reaches the planet cracks its crust, and every comet your ring touches gets smashed.

Controls

Press and hold anywhere (or hold Space) to pull the ring in close: it spins fast, heats up and hits harder the longer you hold. Let go and it swings wide: it cools down, shoves enemies back and catches loose rocks that drift by, which join your ring. P pauses, 1-3 pick an upgrade.

Heat

The gauge around your planet shows the heat. Hot rocks hit up to twice as hard, but at full heat they crack one by one, so the rhythm of holding and letting go is the whole game.

Upgrades

Smashed enemies leave stardust. Fill the ring around your planet to draft an upgrade: denser rocks, a faster spin, burning trails, frost moons, lightning, a second orbit. Two upgrades at level 2 can evolve into one big skill, such as the Solar Wheel or Meteor Rain. Between runs, spend stardust in the observatory: the Forge turns your rocks into ice, magma, crystal and neutron matter, and your star system grows a new planet every few upgrades.

Tips

Hold five minutes in a system to open the next of six, each with something new: ion gusts, gunships you can only reach with a wide ring, a black hole that tears rocks away, and the Herald boss whose shell only cracks from an outward swing. Late in the game a Supernova trades your observatory for stars that multiply every hit.