Comparison

Tesseract! vs Orbit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Four-dimensional puzzle gameplay
  • Roll a golden sphere
  • Navigate a hypercube
  • Rotate the tesseract
  • Reach all surfaces of rooms
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Gravity simulation puzzles
  • Create stable orbits
  • Sandbox mode for level creation
  • Community-created levels
  • Visual orbital mechanics
  • Minimalist graphics and relaxing music
Features
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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

Screenshots

Tesseract!3 screens
Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbit sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Tesseract! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tesseract! versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTesseract!Orbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings)4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews94.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 66 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB130 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony GrahnHIGHKEY Games

Customer experience

Tesseract!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

Orbit

All ratings7,554 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews620 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative3.1%

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

None

Tesseract!

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Orbit

One-time7
  • $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

Questions

Is Tesseract! free?
Tesseract! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tesseract! or Orbit?
Orbit is rated higher. Tesseract! averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Orbit averages 4.8 from 7.6K ratings.
Do Tesseract! or Orbit have ads?
Neither Tesseract! nor Orbit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tesseract! or Orbit?
Tesseract! ships an update every 66 months, and Orbit every 2 months. Most recently, Tesseract! was updated on September 1, 2026 and Orbit on September 23, 2026.

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