Perihelion: Rogue Orbit

Perihelion: Rogue Orbit is a game about fitting a ship, flying it badly, realising the problem was you, and then flying it better. Build your ship, take it into hostile sectors, and fight through short combat encounters where every angle matters.

Your guns don't deal damage just because the fitting screen says they should; they need a clean firing solution. Range, angle, and transversal decide whether your high-alpha shot hits hard or grazes.

Burn straight at a target and you're easy to track. Cut across hostile guns and you reduce incoming damage. Widen your orbit and slow weapons start to apply. Change tack at the right moment, kill your transversal, and land the shot before the enemy does the same to you. That's the moment Perihelion: Rogue Orbit was built around.

Good flying means reading the fight quickly. Hold range when your guns need space. Cut across an approach when you're taking too much damage. Commit when the angle is right and the target is about to break.

Do you burn away before you get pinned?

Break across their path?

Stay on the kill and risk one more volley?

The right fit helps. The right position keeps you alive.

Runs are short, usually around 15 minutes, with reshuffled arenas and encounters each time. Fit, launch, make mistakes, learn the angles, and come back sharper on the next run.

Features

- Fit your ship with weapons, defenses, and utility modules

- Manage range, angle, and transversal in readable 2D combat

- Use movement to improve your own damage or break enemy tracking

- Fight through short 10–20 minute roguelite runs

- Learn why a build failed, adjust, and fly it better next time