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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

Master of Orion 2 also known as MOO2 is considered the classic 4x turn based strategy game set in space. The game has a kind of cult status and even by to days standards is still only matched in game play by very few of its competitors.

Released: 22 November 1996
Developer: Simtex
Publisher: MacSoft Games
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Age rating: ESRB E
Steam recommendations: 1,642
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · DOS
Genres: Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Also known as: MOO2 · Master of Orion 2
Estimated owners: 100,000–200,000 (est.)

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Player rating: 70
Ratings counted: 96.4%
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System requirements 256 MB RAM Download size 0.2 GB Steam Deck Unsupported

Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

The story

Long before the time in which the game is set, two extremely powerful races, the Orions and the Antarans, fought a war that devastated most of the galaxy. The victorious Orions, rather than exterminate the Antarans, imprisoned them in a pocket dimension before departing the galaxy, leaving behind a very powerful robotic warship, the Guardian, to protect their homeworld. Some time after the game starts, the Antarans, having broken out of their prison dimension, begin to send increasingly powerful fleets against the players' colonies, to destroy them rather than to invade. The only way they can be stopped is to carry the battle to their home universe through a Dimensional Portal.

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