What is "orbient"

Orbient, known in Japan as Orbital, is a puzzle video game developed by skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii's WiiWare digital distribution service. It is one of twelve games in the Art Style series of video games available for WiiWare and DSiWare. It is a remake of a Japan-only Game Boy Advance video game titled Orbital, released for the bit Generations series of video games.

The objective of Orbient is to control a white star which grows larger by absorbing blue stars and collecting smaller gray stars to form orbiting satellites.

While the original bit Generations version was met with mixed reactions, The WiiWare version of Orbient was very well received, holding an average score of 82.3% and 82/100 from Game Rankings and Metacritic respectively.