Orbit vs Cube Cut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Cube Cut
Test your 3D puzzle-solving skills by carving into cubes to match blueprints. Progress through increasing difficulty levels, customize your cube with unlockable colors, and discover potential career paths in manufacturing.
- 3D spatial reasoning puzzles
- Cube customization with colors
- Progressive difficulty levels
- 27 unique puzzles
- Career path discovery
- Skill-based gameplay
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Think you’re pretty good at solving 3D puzzles? Put that assumption to the test in Cube Cut, a 3D spatial reasoning puzzle game where you carve into cubes to try and match blueprints. Don’t mess up or else your cube gets scrapped and you have to start all over. Cube Cut starts out easy but gets more difficult as you rank up from trainee to apprentice and beyond. Customize your cube with crazy colors as you level up. Cube Cut features: -Challenging 3D spatial reasoning puzzles -Addicting gameplay -3 difficulty levels -27 unique puzzles -Customize your cube by unlocking crazy colors See if you have the spatial awareness needed to succeed in high demand jobs like machinist, CNC machine operator, welder, and technician. Play well enough in this game and you will be pointed to real life career opportunities in these fields. Cube Cut was developed by Catalyst Connection and Simcoach Games, thanks to generous funding from the Chevron Foundation and the Benedum Foundation, to build awareness of the career opportunities in manufacturing. Cube Cut is a Simcoach Skill Arcade game. Explore careers, practice basic job skills and earn badges to gain exposure to careers and training opportunities in your area. To learn more about the Skill Arcade check out www.simcoachgames.com. Privacy Policy: http://www.simcoachgames.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cube Cut at none against Orbit's 7. Cube Cut also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Orbit's advantage is ratings volume (7.6K vs 16) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price 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. Cube Cut asks for nothing beyond the download.
Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbit has 7.6K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 86% of Cube Cut's.
Orbit ships an update every 2 months, Cube Cut every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbit | Cube Cut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better | 4.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.6K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 277 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HIGHKEY Games | Simcoach Games |
Customer experience
Orbit
Cube Cut
Bugs and 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
Cube Cut
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Cube Cut
No in-app purchases









