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
“Room for Three”
Download orbital-frontier-0.303.1-65.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.
Earlier builds: 0.300.1 (64), 0.297.6 (63), 0.297.2 (62), 0.288.4 (61)
SHA-256 fd01751e95eb9a05282450aaf291dec1ce4964219402d9b35cfcc10f8b67b3e4
Windows
“Room for Three”
Download orbital-frontier-0.303.1-66.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 5cc58fede687ea13e8935b745a71186ad7a9cd2271b76c0ee1c75f5cfde36a3e
Linux
“Room for Three”
Download orbital-frontier-0.303.1-66.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 3eaf00d27ec556bdd09f32e7fe35f29a73c9dfe7a155a4a0940e1c03eb84ff54
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.