O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base

It does not launch for me. I bought it too long ago for steam to give me a refund, so it is my fault for not testing it when I bought it, but wanted people to have a warning that it may not run on your current systems.

ORB is an ancient game from 2002. It's a whopping 22 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. The game itself had huge potential, being somewhat of a ripoff of Homeworld, but this is a seriously starved gaming genre. This might even be a decent candidate for a remake. But as it is, it's Homeworlds very poor cousin, and nowhere near as good to play. The Homeworld 1+2 remasters would be a better choice for gamers. While you can set the game resolution, it only supports 4:3 aspect ratio, it's not really acceptable in this day and age and playing games pillarboxed is not something I could ever tell gamers they should do. It's enough to fail this for any positive recommendation. Also the UI and game assets are seriously dated. We sometimes take it for granted how nice UIs are on modern games. ORB will certainly a…

A high quality tutorial, well-design 3D tatics mechanism, but graphic is quite old-fashioned, you can hardly buy a game with such completeness in nowadays.

I really wish there were more levels to the game in terms of play time. It ends far too early. I would like a sequel. It's not too overly complex so you don't have to learn an entire universe before you can start really playing.

Something like Homeworld. Decent game for its time

O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base is a space-based real-time strategy game originally released in the early 2000s and later brought to Steam by Strategy First. Set in a distant solar system rich with valuable resources, the game centers on a conflict between two emerging interstellar civilizations, each vying for survival and dominance. Framed as a large-scale space opera, the narrative follows the militaristic Malus and the more idealistic Alyssians as they expand into contested territory, uncover ancient threats, and clash over ideology as much as territory. The story provides context for the campaign missions, but the true focus of O.R.B lies in its strategic systems and deliberate pacing. At the heart of the gameplay is resource acquisition and management. Unlike many faster-paced RTS titles, O.R.B places significant emphasis on scouting, scanning asteroid fields, and securing limited mineral deposits scattered across expansive maps. Players must build mining platforms, protect transport routes, and carefully allocate manpower to maintain a functioning economy. Crew members are not abstract numbers but are divided among research, piloting, and other operational roles, forcing pla…