Tesseract! vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tesseract!
Navigate a unique four-dimensional puzzle by rolling a golden sphere to every surface of a hypercube. Strategically pass through doors to rotate the tesseract and enter new rooms, aiming to reach all walls, floors, and ceilings.
- Four-dimensional puzzle gameplay
- Roll a golden sphere
- Navigate a hypercube
- Rotate the tesseract
- Reach all surfaces of rooms
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A unique four-dimensional puzzle, but please do not expect to solve it easily. The game consists of rolling a golden sphere to each surface of a hypercube. This is done by touching a door to pass through which in turn rotates the tesseract four dimensionally and brings the sphere into a new room. Passing through a series of rooms strategically will put the sphere on the walls and ceilings of rooms it has previously been in. The goal is to reach every wall, floor and ceiling of every room.
Orbit
This app is a meditative physics puzzler where you launch planets to create stable orbits around black holes. Explore a variety of levels, create your own challenges in a sandbox mode, and enjoy a visually artistic and relaxing experience.
- Gravity simulation puzzles
- Create stable orbits
- Sandbox mode for level creation
- Community-created levels
- Visual orbital mechanics
- Minimalist graphics and relaxing music
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ORBIT is a gravity simulator at the heart of a puzzle game. Launch planets with a flick of your finger, and try to get them into stable orbits around black holes. Can you make enough orbits to progress to the next level? New: ORBIT now features a Sandbox (paid) where you can create your own levels! Control time, disable collisions, and paint with gravity. Publish your creations to the world for everyone to play. • 45 free levels, with new mechanics are introduced over time — like repulsive black holes and planets with their own gravity that attract each other • Play community-created levels — virtually limitless content made by other players, all completely free • Launch as many planets as you like, and watch the mesmerizing orbital mechanics unfold • Planets leave colored traces, so that at the end of a level you will have created a beautiful piece of art • See the future trajectory of a planet before you launch it • Play in an environment of smooth, minimalist graphics while listening to relaxing classical piano Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/highkeygames Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highkeygames
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Orbit at 4.8 against Tesseract!'s 4.3. Orbit also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 66 months) and ratings volume (7.6K vs 4). Tesseract!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Orbit sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Tesseract! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbit has 7.6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Tesseract!'s written reviews are positive against 94% of Orbit's.
Tesseract! ships an update every 66 months, Orbit every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tesseract! | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 66 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anthony Grahn | HIGHKEY Games |
Customer experience
Tesseract!
Orbit
Bugs and requests
Tesseract!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Orbit
Reported bugs
3 issues- In app purchase not received
- Sandbox mode not working
- Game crashing and unable to open
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to zoom in and out
- Ability to rotate the game to landscape on iPad
- Ability to edit and move existing objects in sandbox mode
- Ability to name planets and add moons
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- More levels and game modes
In-app purchases
Tesseract!
No in-app purchases
Orbit
- $1 contribution$0.99
- Remove ads$0.99
- $2 contribution$1.99
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- $3 contribution$2.99
- Unlock Sandbox (and remove ads)$2.99
- $5 contribution$4.99
- $10 contribution$9.99









