O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base

I played this game years ago and bought it now again. I was concered with technical problems mentionend here in a other comment but on my Win.10, I5 with 1050 I had no performance issues. The game is a little like the old Battle Star Galactica movies and I can only recommed it to everyone who like this kind of real time strategy and is able to ignore the older graphic stile.

Do not buy this game. The controls to selct your ship only make it harder to get to your ship, the game locks at 10 fps, way to low to be playable and very badly made. I would recommend this game if these two things were improved, but until then, do not buy it.

A little dated, but solid game. Good concepts and well executed.

A great game with harsh RTS elements. Searching for mineable asteroids, ferrying resources back, and figuring out how to best manage resources across large maps makes for a very, very difficult game. The maps are tiny compared to... well... space, but they give a lot of area to work with. They also have space as 3-dimensional. I know, that sounds like such a little thing, but so many games don't allow you to go up or down, and ORB does. Have an enemy on the other side of the map whose base you want to raid without being detected? Fly as high or low as possible within your "sector" of space and maybe bypass them... or draw them in to your "high" flying decoy while your real force flies "low". Learning how to move both attack craft and resource-gathering craft strategically especially with the long, slow distances involved gives it a solid space naval conflict feel. You set pieces in motion and watch things unfold, and it your decisions are right, you watch your plan come together... and if they're wrong, you get to watch your fleet get slaughtered while trying to come up with last-second tactical commands that might just maybe swing things back your way. Most of the complaints seem due to backwards compatibility issues, and there are a few, but it also may depend on finding tweaks that let it still run. Multiplayer is still possible, but it can be a headache depending on your level of computer networking skills. Singleplayer is still fun either way. The music is mellow new-agey space background stuff that works well and contributes to a subtle background sense of "space game awe", graphics are what they were for a game that came out years ago. I don't remember ever getting finished with the story, but it slowly works its way along with increasing mission difficulty. As of this writing, Steam has it for $4.99, which is roughly the same price I paid for it out of a bin at a discount store in 2003 or 2004. Even at full price, it's less than coffee a lot of places.

Classic game for a dollar on sale or something, got to love Steam. Still looks good enough too. Runs on my Win 7 machine np.

Strong homeworld influence. Interesting and varied fights. Entertaining and captivating story. And a nice study about perspectives. The Graphics are quite outdated, but the gameplay feels fresh and possessive. Definitive recommendation for this gem.

Old gamer very good game