Orch Star
Orch Star Studios · 2018 · Action, Indie, Strategy, VR, Sci-fi
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About Orch Star
Orch Star is a real-time strategy game set in an immersive space universe where orchs and elves fight for domination. Control your fleet of orch ships using either a traditional desktop setup or VR gear as you conquer the planets necessary to seize control of strategic systems.
Perform quick, cunning maneuvers to crush your opponents as you lead a rebellion through the 15 increasingly difficult scenarios of the campaign. Challenge other players in online battles as you show the world the great warlord you’ve become, or explore the Level Editor and create beautiful scenarios to share with the world.
Orch Star can be played in either Desktop or Virtual Reality (VR) mode. The traditional desktop mode is played on a monitor using mouse and keyboard, while the VR mode is played using a supported VR headset and handheld controllers.
There is no difference in content between the two modes; they are simply two different interfaces for playing the game. Throughout its development, Orch Star has been designed to be fun and challenging for both modes. Purchasing a copy of the game will allow you to play in either mode at any time, provided you have the necessary equipment.
Lead a rebellion against the vast Mevorian Empire as you play through the 15 carefully designed scenarios of the single-player campaign. Take the role of the great warchief Orca Wartusk, who started a revolution among the scattered orch clans after almost 600 years of Mevorian oppression. Rally the remaining orch clans by proving your superiority as warchief, then venture into the elven starseas to conquer their ancient systems and foreign technology. Discover new ships, technologies and spells to further enhance your capabilities.
“My homeworld was burning. My clan, friends and family were burning. It was the end of our world. The Mevorian Empire crushed our last strongholds in a devastating series of blows. The combined 7th and 12th fleet of the Mevorian deep space command left almost no survivors after their first strike. The second strike took out our fleets’ starbases. We had lost long before the battle begun. Bound to give up, or lose what was left of our families, children and elders, our leaders gave in to the Mevorians. A bloody defeat. Hence we became part of the vast Mevorian Star Empire. We lost our ways and our freedom.”
– Orca Wartusk
Challenge your friends or other online commanders in Multiplayer battles for up to 6 players, regardless of their gaming platform. Play as orchs or elves in deathmatch scenarios in customizable team compositions or custom scenarios with scripted events and victory conditions. Just like in the Skirmish game mode, you can always add AI opponents if you need more players.
Use the Skirmish game mode to play one of the bundled or user-created single-player scenarios with or against AI opponents of customizable difficulty. You can also open Multiplayer scenarios in Skirmish and replace other player teams with AI-controlled ones.
The extensive Level Editor is a powerful tool developed alongside the game, which has been used to create all scenarios seen in the campaign and Skirmish scenarios. Use it to build and share your own scenarios of varying complexity. Edit planets, asteroids, stars and skybox to create the scenery, then determine ship production and team configurations to add gameplay to the scene. You can even customize your scenario further by adding dialogue, planet statistics and descriptions, and powerful custom functions which allow you to script game events such as reinforcements, planet explosions and victory.
Both the Level Editor and scenario selection in the game feature integration with Steam’s platform for user-created content, the Workshop. This makes it easier for you to both share your own scenarios and find others’ scenarios to play in the Skirmish or Multiplayer game modes. The Workshop also allows you to quickly find good scenarios with specific tags, rate and leave feedback on scenarios, and subscribe to your favourites for automatic updates.
Perform quick, cunning maneuvers to crush your opponents as you lead a rebellion through the 15 increasingly difficult scenarios of the campaign. Challenge other players in online battles as you show the world the great warlord you’ve become, or explore the Level Editor and create beautiful scenarios to share with the world.
Desktop / Virtual Reality
Orch Star can be played in either Desktop or Virtual Reality (VR) mode. The traditional desktop mode is played on a monitor using mouse and keyboard, while the VR mode is played using a supported VR headset and handheld controllers.
There is no difference in content between the two modes; they are simply two different interfaces for playing the game. Throughout its development, Orch Star has been designed to be fun and challenging for both modes. Purchasing a copy of the game will allow you to play in either mode at any time, provided you have the necessary equipment.
Lead a Rebellion
Lead a rebellion against the vast Mevorian Empire as you play through the 15 carefully designed scenarios of the single-player campaign. Take the role of the great warchief Orca Wartusk, who started a revolution among the scattered orch clans after almost 600 years of Mevorian oppression. Rally the remaining orch clans by proving your superiority as warchief, then venture into the elven starseas to conquer their ancient systems and foreign technology. Discover new ships, technologies and spells to further enhance your capabilities.
“My homeworld was burning. My clan, friends and family were burning. It was the end of our world. The Mevorian Empire crushed our last strongholds in a devastating series of blows. The combined 7th and 12th fleet of the Mevorian deep space command left almost no survivors after their first strike. The second strike took out our fleets’ starbases. We had lost long before the battle begun. Bound to give up, or lose what was left of our families, children and elders, our leaders gave in to the Mevorians. A bloody defeat. Hence we became part of the vast Mevorian Star Empire. We lost our ways and our freedom.”
– Orca Wartusk
Battle Online
Challenge your friends or other online commanders in Multiplayer battles for up to 6 players, regardless of their gaming platform. Play as orchs or elves in deathmatch scenarios in customizable team compositions or custom scenarios with scripted events and victory conditions. Just like in the Skirmish game mode, you can always add AI opponents if you need more players.
Local Skirmishes
Use the Skirmish game mode to play one of the bundled or user-created single-player scenarios with or against AI opponents of customizable difficulty. You can also open Multiplayer scenarios in Skirmish and replace other player teams with AI-controlled ones.
Create Your Own Scenarios
The extensive Level Editor is a powerful tool developed alongside the game, which has been used to create all scenarios seen in the campaign and Skirmish scenarios. Use it to build and share your own scenarios of varying complexity. Edit planets, asteroids, stars and skybox to create the scenery, then determine ship production and team configurations to add gameplay to the scene. You can even customize your scenario further by adding dialogue, planet statistics and descriptions, and powerful custom functions which allow you to script game events such as reinforcements, planet explosions and victory.
Steam Workshop Integration
Both the Level Editor and scenario selection in the game feature integration with Steam’s platform for user-created content, the Workshop. This makes it easier for you to both share your own scenarios and find others’ scenarios to play in the Skirmish or Multiplayer game modes. The Workshop also allows you to quickly find good scenarios with specific tags, rate and leave feedback on scenarios, and subscribe to your favourites for automatic updates.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Love this. Very difficult strategy masterpiece. Well recommended.5 found this helpful
So i really wanted to like this game but it just isn't enough of a game for me. The visuals and overall presentation are great, also controls are easy to use and intuitive. Where it really lacks is in the actual gameplay department. Basically this is a "capture the flag" style game. You command your units to move to a position and capture it. Once you capture a point it starts producing more units for you. Then you send those units to capture the next point. It is basically the same gameplay as Eufloria or Auralux just with a lot better visuals and in VR obviously. I only played the first few levels because sending units from one planet to the other gets old really fast, no matter the visuals and story. There is no progression, you cannot seem to upgrade units and even though there are different types of units the game does not explain at all what their strengths and weaknesses are and in the end it doesn't really matter anyways because you just send in the big horde to capture the next flag. It's really a shame that so much work into doing all the outstanding visual design but so little work went into actual game design. So unless you really like your strategy as simple as w…3 found this helpful
This game has got it's charm but in the end I can't really get over how simplistic it is while still being crushingly hard towards the end. I got the game for free so it was worth playing but I can't say I would have felt happy buying it at the current price.3 found this helpful
Neat little game with a classic virus mechanic. Cool story about orch clans duking it out in space. Haven't tried the VR version myself, but I've seen others play it and it looks so awesome! Wish the game would offer a speed button for faster gameplay, and controls take some time to get used to. Otherwise a really fun game!2 found this helpful
I have really enjoyed the simplicity and fun of other similar style games (e.g., Astraeus). So I went into this game knowing that I would like the genre of game that this is. While I knew this title wouldn't be super complex from other reviews - it does refresh the gameplay a bit and makes for a little more involved play than Astraeus. So, the base of the game is solid and can be quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, the controls on this game are very frustrating and non-intuitive. The in-game tutorials are incomplete, and leave a lot of menus unexplained and there is jargon that you just kinda are on your own to figure out. It took me hours of button mashing to try to figure out some of the more complex commands that you can give - mostly just because the controls were that frustrating and not well explained (for instance, how to break off a group of one type of fighters from the other ships they are associated with). Unfortunately, the use of these sort of advanced orders seems absolutely necessary in the later levels - which meant that there were hours of frustration knowing what I wanted to do, but unable to figure out how to make the command. Even once the right sequence of buttons…1 found this helpful
This review is based on playing it on a monitor and is definitely not as immersive as playing it in VR. So mechanics wise, the game is pretty simple and straightforward; you click on your planet, percentage up your ships that you want to send into battle, and click and drag an arrow to where they will attack. Your ships will fly in formation and then attack the enemy ships, there will be a number representing how many ships are lost. You can use the WASD to focus your monitor view on the battle and then zoom in/out. Overall, there doesn't feel to be any depth to it. The game is a good time-waster and probably an even better time waster in VR. It's not a complicated game without much of a curve. The graphics are nice and it runs smooth. Is it worth its current price? Probably not. If you're interested, get it while it's on sale.
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