The platform

Orbium Games is a platform for multiplayer games that run in a browser tab. There is nothing to install and no account to make: you pick a name, open a Hold and share its link with your crew.

What makes it different

• A Hold that stays. A Hold is your crew's place. It keeps its record, its settings and its link between matches, for as long as you keep playing in it. The matches, the Worlds and, as more games arrive, the games change inside it. Read how a Hold works.
• Full 3D in the page. Every World is drawn with WebGPU, the browser's modern graphics interface: a moving sea with surf and foam, a sky with clouds and weather, light that changes with the hour. See what it takes to play.
• Made for a crew. From 2 to 16 units in one Hold, on keyboard and mouse, a gamepad or a touch screen.
• Procedural Worlds. No model or texture files: the island, its rocks and every unit are generated from a seed, so a whole World arrives in a few megabytes.

Our goals

1. Games worth playing with friends, that start from a link in seconds.
2. A platform for many games. One Beam is the first; the next ones open in the same Hold, with the same crew. See the roadmap.
3. Open knowledge. The code is public, and these Docs explain how it works, from the rules of a game to the shaders that draw its sea. See open source and the developers' docs.
4. Free to play, backed by its players. Every player can open a Hold. Patrons and sponsors pay for the servers and the work: see the backers.

The words we use

Orbium speaks like a dock. These words appear across the games and these pages: