Orbital Frontier
Download it.
It is early, it is free, and it changes most days. Your space program lives on the shared world, so it follows you from one of these to the next — build a rocket on the desk, fly it on the bus.
macOS
“A New Face”
Download orbital-frontier-0.349.4-83.dmg
Needs macOS 11 Big Sur or newer.
Signed and notarized by Apple. Open the disk image, drag Orbital Frontier into Applications, and double-click it.
SHA-256 a75ebb1ac8a82ea53ef4a4b876e67b6bc0fdc30277ba814f4992ff029f84a275
Windows
“A New Face”
Download orbital-frontier-0.349.4-83.zip
Needs Windows 10 (64-bit) or newer.
Windows has not been introduced to us by a certificate authority, so SmartScreen stops this the first time. It is two clicks:
- Unzip the folder anywhere — Downloads is fine — and double-click Orbital Frontier.exe.
- On the blue Windows protected your PC box, choose More info, then Run anyway. Windows remembers it from then on.
Keep the unzipped folder together: the game reads the files beside the .exe.
SHA-256 85ca0d151cbdaa7b3750872a52988c24806ebc9350e3041136cdaf4086e2f95a
Linux
“A New Face”
Download orbital-frontier-0.349.4-83.tar.gz
Needs a 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.31 (Ubuntu 20.04) or newer.
Unpack it and run the binary. Nothing to install:
tar -xzf orbital-frontier-*.tar.gz ./orbital-frontier/orbital-frontier.x86_64
The archive keeps the executable bit. If you unpacked it with a file manager that dropped it,
chmod +x the binary first. Needs a 64-bit system with working Vulkan drivers.
SHA-256 27e03f3671c8702c4b5615e46f73e88cc5afacfa388686f07b4657bbb59ff85f
On a phone
iPhone & iPad
iPhone and iPad builds go out through TestFlight while the App Store listing is being set up, and the invite is not public yet. The manual says how it works once you have one.
Android
One space program, every platform: the manual says what signing in carries between them.