Gravity in Space

Gravity in Space is a spaceship game built around astrodynamics and combat. You navigate using Newton’s laws: you cannot steer directly, but change your velocity with acceleration impulses. With no air resistance or maximum speed, you use gravitational centers to reach targets while positioning yourself against enemies, avoiding mines, repelling attacks and firing back.

Ship controls

Your ship has six degrees of freedom: you can rotate along any axis and boost in any direction, regardless of your current speed or orientation. It is equipped with 16 rocket engines. Navigation assistance helps you avoid collisions and reach a desired orbit, including when flying backwards, but you must manage your resources to avoid losing control and crashing into a moon, planet or asteroid belt.

Challenges and levels

You can learn to handle astrodynamics and gravitational forces through 25 challenges across 14 levels. Objectives include collecting energy cores, reaching specific orbits, destroying hostile explosives and fighting enemies. A rank system indicates whether you are ready for multiplayer battles or more difficult challenges; improving your score on a challenge can raise your rank.

The levels include familiar planetary systems and surreal settings, such as the interiors of celestial objects, fields of hundreds of floating asteroids and thick nebulas. Many celestial bodies are dynamic, with objects moving around gravitational centers. The compact levels let you travel around a planet in seconds or cross a giant asteroid field in less than a minute.

Online battles

In 1-vs-1 online matches, you plan an orbit and try to outmaneuver your opponent before finding an opening to attack. Tactical movement and fast skirmishes alternate, and a match lasts up to ten minutes.