2026 · Incremental · Magic · Resource Management
How long isOrb of Creation?
by MarpleGames
34 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 12 hours and 81 hours
Long for an incremental game: 34 hours for the typical player, longer than 98 of 106 incremental games here.
91% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
87% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
86% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
83% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
84% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
Does Orb of Creation hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Orb of Creation tell you?
In the first two hours63%recommend it
After that85%recommend it
16 in 100 said no: 15 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 34 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 12 hours and 81 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,260 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 5–10 hours: 91% of them. Among players at 50–100 hours that falls to 83%.
4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 63% of those recommend it. After the window, 85% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 91% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 36 hours in.
When would you get there?
5weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 34 hours on Thursday, December 17.
Half of its reviewers had played between 12 and 81 hours: Nov 25 to Feb 2, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Orb of Creation worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Orb of Creation
- Steam list price, US
- $11.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 34 h
- incremental game rate
- $1.06/h
- 34 h at that rate
- $36
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Orb of Creation worth it? Mostly.
A steal
3× the hours of a typical incremental game, for the same money
Liked
85% recommend it after the refund windowmost incremental games: 91%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $11.99, the typical player's 34 hours come to 35¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 85% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 35¢ an hour, Orb of Creation is cheaper per hour than 91 of 106 incremental games here: the typical one of 106 incremental games here charges $1.06, so the same $11.99 buys 3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (incremental games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Orb of Creation today?
On PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2026
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Orb of Creation came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Orb of Creation?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Orb of Creation, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Orb of Creation would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
What did people here do with Orb of Creation?
All 4
Copies in the libraries here: launched it
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Orb of Creation: a kind of game it is that Orb of Creation is not, a feature its tags carry that Orb of Creation's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.