Master of Orion

Space 4X with asymmetric races and researched ship design; the genre's naming benchmark.

Released 1993 Developer Simtex Publisher MicroProse Platform DOS Genre 4X Strategy Era 8- and 16-bit Website masteroforion.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Master of Orion inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Seeded Procedural Universe ~~1984~~Turn-Based 4X Empire ~~1991~~Fog of War ~~1992~~

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