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Master of Orion 2 cover art

Master of Orion 2

SimTex · Wargaming Labs · 2016-02-25

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 16, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 24, 1997 (Mac), Dec 16, 1996 (DOS)

Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.

130
playing now
96%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
92/100
IGDB user rating (70 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

130 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in space, designed by Steve Barcia and Ken Burd, and developed by Simtex, who developed its predecessor Master of Orion and Master of Magic. The PC version was published by MicroProse in 1996, and the Macintosh version a year later by MacSoft, in partnership with MicroProse. The game has retained a large fan base, and is still played online.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 23% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 44k–105k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,747 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

210942026-08-11 18:00 — 189 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 95 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 152 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 181 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 112 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 164 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 210 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 144 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 194 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 175 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 124 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 160 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 153 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 102 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 151 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 159 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 137 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 202 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 192 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 94 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 167 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 152 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 99 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 157 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 161 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 107 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 170 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 187 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 130 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$49.99$1.792016-08-262021-02-152016-08-26 — best price $42.492016-10-30 — best price $29.992016-11-23 — best price $29.992016-12-22 — best price $24.992017-02-20 — best price $24.992017-06-20 — best price $24.992018-05-29 — best price $5.992018-07-05 — best price $5.992018-11-01 — best price $5.992018-11-28 — best price $5.992019-01-03 — best price $5.992019-02-12 — best price $5.992019-07-09 — best price $5.992019-07-22 — best price $5.992019-11-01 — best price $5.992019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-01-02 — best price $5.992020-01-27 — best price $5.992020-07-09 — best price $5.992020-09-14 — best price $5.992020-11-02 — best price $5.992020-12-01 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $5.992021-02-15 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

69232026-06-01 — 49 pageviews2026-06-04 — 35 pageviews2026-06-07 — 57 pageviews2026-06-10 — 25 pageviews2026-06-13 — 43 pageviews2026-06-16 — 27 pageviews2026-06-19 — 41 pageviews2026-06-22 — 25 pageviews2026-06-25 — 28 pageviews2026-06-28 — 35 pageviews2026-07-01 — 29 pageviews2026-07-04 — 30 pageviews2026-07-07 — 47 pageviews2026-07-10 — 31 pageviews2026-07-13 — 51 pageviews2026-07-16 — 48 pageviews2026-07-19 — 27 pageviews2026-07-22 — 46 pageviews2026-07-25 — 33 pageviews2026-07-28 — 29 pageviews2026-07-31 — 28 pageviews2026-08-03 — 31 pageviews2026-08-06 — 46 pageviews2026-08-09 — 32 pageviews2026-08-12 — 37 pageviews2026-08-15 — 29 pageviews2026-08-18 — 32 pageviews2026-08-21 — 47 pageviews2026-08-24 — 48 pageviews2026-08-27 — 36 pageviews2026-08-29 — 45 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

4XRetroSpaceSci-fiClassicStrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayerGrand Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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