Comparison

Orbit vs Water Box

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

Head to head
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

About

Water Box

Explore realistic fluid dynamics and ragdoll physics in this sandbox playground. Sink ships, experiment with various liquids, and unleash destruction with a wide array of tools and elements. Build and test your creations in a detailed simulation environment.

Highlights
  • Realistic water and powder simulation
  • Ragdoll people playground experiments
  • Ship sinking and floating simulator
  • Gore and destruction simulator
  • Alchemy, fire, and chemical reactions
  • Build and share creations
Features
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People playground meets a floating sandbox games in this realistic water physics simulation! This water physics sandbox games lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people playground built to simulate destruction. Features: Water Simulation & Powder Game - Simulate liquids like lava, petrol, oil, nitro, viruses, fireworks, and more – each with unique behaviors. - Enjoy a beautiful underwater sandbox games with up to 200,000 water particles. Ragdoll & People Playground - Discover the many unpredictable outcomes of ragdoll experiments! - Use virus liquids to infect them or make them go crazy with chemicals & mods. - Realistic gore ragdoll playground: they can walk, drown, burn, or react to your experiments. Ship Sinking Simulator & Floating Sandbox - Build ships from scratch or choose from pre-built ones like cargo ships, submarines, and even the Titanic. - Test their strength against waves, bombs, stormworks, floods, or tsunamis. - Watch ships float, sink, burn, or explode in realistic fashion. - The inbuilt ship sinking simulator is very sophisticated - Includes 50+ pre-built experiments and machines to explore. - Build and test your own ships, vehicles, titanic clones, tanks rockets and share mods in the new online workshop. - Construct using different materials like wood, rubber or stone. Gore Sandboxels & Destruction Simulator - Use explosives like nukes, grenades, and rockets to smash anything. - Unleash god-powers like airstrikes, tsunamis, stormworks, floods or firestorms. - Choose among an arsenal of weapons to wreak havoc against your subjects! Alchemy, Fire & Physics Sandbox - Experiment with different elements - like lava with nitro, or fire with petrol and watch how they react with water, like freezing or evaporating - Realistic temperature, fire, and chemical reactions. - Set things on fire and watch it spread; extinguish it with water or freeze it into ice. - All materials react uniquely – from flammable boats to explosive bombs. - A deep and detailed destruction simulator game. - the game includes many cool firework effects. Now have fun and relax while playing in this underwater powder game: build complex boats, machines or simulate chain reactions in this sandboxel. Players say this sanbox game has everything you would expect from an mobile algodoo alternative. Have ideas or issues? Send me an email! Note: A strong phone is recommended for the best experience. Download the sanbox game now, build something wild, and let the chaos begin! By Gaming-Apps.com (2025)

Screenshots

Orbit4 screens
Water Box4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Water Box at every 9 days against Orbit's every 2 months. Orbit's advantage is ratings volume (7.7K vs 1.8K). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 and Water Box sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Orbit against 4.8 for Water Box. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7.7K and 1.8K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 92% of Water Box's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbit ships an update every 2 months, Water Box every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Orbit versus Water Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitWater Box
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.7K ratings) — better4.8 (1.8K ratings)
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews — better92.1% of reviews
Number of ratings7.7K — better1.8K
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB87 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHIGHKEY GamesLukas Oertel

Customer experience

Orbit

All ratings7,627 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews628 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.0%

Water Box

All ratings1,741 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews597 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.7%

User reviews

Orbit

From 7.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fire game
  • 👍 Relaxing and Enjoyable
  • 👍 Calming, fun, stimulating, humble
  • 👍 Simple and yet complicated
  • 👍 Elegant and easy

Room to improve

  • 🐛 In app purchased not reicevied
  • 🐛 Purchase didn't work for sandbox & ad removal but it's fun.
  • 🔒 Be ware of your data
  • 🐛 Love-hate

Water Box

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Good game
  • 👍 Awesome game
  • 👍 Fun and good game
  • 👍 Great game
  • 👍 Satisfying and fun

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 💡 Increase water capacity

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

Water Box

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Crashes frequently

Requested features

1 request
  • Make ships sink like in Floating Sandbox

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
  • Orbit Pro$2.99
  • $5 contribution$4.99
  • $10 contribution$9.99
10 purchases

Water Box

One-time10
  • Increase max water by 10000$2.99
  • 250 Coins$4.99
  • Creative Package 50% Discount$4.99
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  • Increase max water by 20000$4.99
  • 550 Coins$7.99
  • Creative Package$9.99
  • Increase max water by 50000$9.99
  • 1200 Coins$14.99
  • Increase max water by 100000$17.99
  • 2300 Coins$24.99

Questions

Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Water Box free?
Water Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Orbit or Water Box?
Orbit is rated higher. Orbit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.7K ratings, while Water Box averages 4.8 from 1.8K ratings.
Do Orbit or Water Box have ads?
Both Orbit and Water Box show ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit or Water Box?
Orbit ships an update every 2 months, and Water Box every 9 days. Most recently, Orbit was updated on November 7, 2026 and Water Box on November 4, 2026.

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