O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base
Long ago a great empire spanned the stars until it collapsed. The worlds of this empire fell into an intergalactic dark age and forgot their past. In the Aldus solar system, spaceflight has been regained. Two…
O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base is a strategy, released 13 March 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.80 at GamersGate.
What O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base is
O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base was released in 2014. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Long ago a great empire spanned the stars until it collapsed. The worlds of this empire fell into an intergalactic dark age and forgot their past. In the Aldus solar system, spaceflight has been regained. Two different races, the Malus and the Alyssians, both venture out into space for the first time and encounter one another. Due to fragmented legends among both races, they soon grow distrustful of one another and declare war. However the Alyssians and Malus are weak in resources, having been confined to their planets for so long, and so it's important for both sides to establish Offworld Resource Bases. O.R.B. is a 3D real-time strategy game, similar in gameplay to Homeworld. The player…
How it plays
Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.80 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base launched on 13 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
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