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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

SimTex's 1996 sequel, which many 4X fans still call the best space strategy game ever made.

Lead one of thirteen races, or design your own, and build a galactic empire. Beyond your rivals lies the ancient, hostile Antarans, waiting in their own dimension.

Sold on GOG together with the first Master of Orion.

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About the game

Custom races let you mix traits like telepathy, lithovores or great scientists to build your own play style.

Planets now have colonies to manage, leaders to hire and tactical space battles to fight.

History

Developed by SimTex and published by MicroProse in 1996.

Master of Orion III followed in 2003, and a reboot in 2016.

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Ways to play

GOG.com Master of Orion 1+2, ready to play on modern computers
Paid Open

Extras

Only official, legal extras. We never link to scanned manuals or unofficial downloads.

Official extras on GOG Buying the GOG version also gets you these extras, free to download from your GOG library:
Manuals (153 pages) Reference card MOO 2 soundtrack
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