--- title: "Starbase Orion - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: ""The best 4X game currently available for mobile" - PocketTactics.com "This one is geek heaven" - AppAdvice.com "Master of Orion in Your Pocket” - GamePro.com "Starbase Orion has an epic-feeling" - To" --- # Starbase Orion — United States ![Starbase Orion App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/02/f5/35/02f53570-f4ea-4cdc-8d55-c589cbc15e05/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Chimera Software](https://apptail.io/developer/chimera-software-Haw) **Category:** Games **Rating:** 4.7/5 (322 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.chimerasw.starbaseorion **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 1.3.3 (released 2025-12-15) **Original Release:** 2011-10-12 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id438375580) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/united-states) ## Starbase Orion Description "The best 4X game currently available for mobile" - PocketTactics.com "This one is geek heaven" - AppAdvice.com "Master of Orion in Your Pocket” - GamePro.com "Starbase Orion has an epic-feeling" - TouchArcade.com "Starbase Orion is here, and it's glorious." - TUAW.com Explore. Expand. Exterminate. Can you defeat your friends and become the ruler of the galaxy? Starbase Orion is an old-school 4X space strategy game that draws inspiration from titles such as Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. Lead your empire from the birth of its space age; colonize new worlds, explore new horizons, and discover other players attempting to do the same. It is a race to the stars where only one empire can declare victory over the galaxy. New to 4X Strategy Games? No Problem Starbase Orion includes a hand tailored tutorial mission perfect for those new to the genre. It features high-quality voice acting provided by the very talented Maurice Thomas. Aged like a Fine Wine With nearly a five year life span the dedicated community of Starbase Orion players and the developer have produced twenty-four fantastic updates. Each update has introduced new features and player suggested functionality to make the game better, more strategic, and more immersive. Strong Single-Player Experience Compete against a battle-tested artificial intelligence. Our AI was derived from our entry into to 2010 Google AI contest, where it placed in the top 15% of thousands of competing intelligences. Go head-to-head against a single AI opponent, or ramp up the carnage with a 4 way free-for-all. GameCenter Multiplayer Turn-Based Games Starbase Orion was designed to provide a fantastic multiplayer experience. Launch the game, sign into GameCenter, and start a new multiplayer game. No need to coordinate play times or seek out other players. Just go play, when you want and on your terms. Choose Your Race, Or Create Your Own There are five uniques races included; Human, Draske, Vass, Cyban, and Isather. You can also create your own custom race by picking and choosing between different race characteristics. Intense Space Combat Design your ships from a variety of weapons, hull, and systems. Send them into battle against the enemy. Give them orders, then watch the battle in unfold as they duke it out in the dark expanses of space. Diplomacy, Espionage, Free Agents Direct confrontations not your cup of tea? Negotiate your way to victory through diplomatic endeavors. Confound your enemies with an army of spies. Contract one of the many power and unique leaders to help you to victory. iCloud Support Starbase Orion is built from the ground up for iOS 5. It supports iCloud so that your saved games are instantly available on all of your devices. Start a game at home on your iPad, then pick it up again the next day on your iPhone. Simple, streamlined, fantastic. Universal - You Bought the Cool Gadgets, Go Play on Them Full support for iPad, iPhone, iPod, standard and Retina displays. Play when you want, where you want. Guaranteed Pricing While it is quite common for apps to become “free for a day”, Starbase Orion is not one of those apps. The standard price for Starbase Orion is $7.99 USD; it will never run a “free for a day” campaign. Tens of thousands of players have placed their confidence in us by purchasing Starbase Orion, and this is our guarantee to you. Guaranteed Free Updates We have a lot more planned for Starbase Orion. We plan to release all updates for free, without any hidden fees or In-App Purchases. ## Starbase Orion Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/ab/3c/6c/ab3c6cd8-38d6-c2d4-9e0a-afd50a01311a/mzl.iwwdhhyf.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/c4/28/85/c42885eb-554d-8694-bce2-7abe269efd6d/mzl.ohqwnqpk.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/4b/bd/ef/4bbdef93-0c35-8bc3-bb54-e5d1cfeea153/mzl.idbhurrh.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/fc/4f/82/fc4f8287-7d8d-414b-c1b6-55b536dc268f/mzl.hohmjqhk.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/50/f2/eb/50f2eb51-6506-51e9-2eaa-a84f532aa350/mzl.kmexlvzp.png/960x640.png) ## Starbase Orion Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 272 (84%) - 4 stars: 21 (7%) - 3 stars: 16 (5%) - 2 stars: 4 (1%) - 1 stars: 9 (3%) ## Starbase Orion Reviews in United States ### ***** "Excellent" I remember playing this game a long time ago, I’m very glad it still works! Classic scifi 4x on mobile, can’t beat that! -- A Citizen of City 17, 2024-10-03 ### ***** "Old school fun" This really is a fun game if you are into old school, turn based, space simulation like Master of Orion. It has depth but is still accessible. Played for many hours. No adds. No upcharges. Good replay value. Well worth the game cost. -- SkipTrick, 2024-08-01 ### **--- "Love the Game but Constantly Crashes" I love the game but it's very unstable. On my previous iPad it would crash maybe every ten minutes or so, which I could deal with. On my new M2 Air, once you get towards the end game, it crashes every other time I hit Next Turn. It becomes unplayable. I really hope that the developers do something to fix this problem. It's sad that I can't play a game that I love. -- Jesse Donat, 2024-05-27 ### ***** "Such a great game!" Classic 4X galactic conquest game. The closest you can get to the old Master of Orion PC game on a mobile device. Best part of all: it isn’t some pay-to-play, micro transaction nightmare the way every other app out there is. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the developers. We need more games like this. -- 2drinks, 2024-03-06 ### ***** "Outstanding game that passes the test of time" This game is awesome! Highly customizable, great soundtrack, and so much replay value . I love it and hope support for it doesn’t end. -- Razorshock, 2023-09-21 ### ***** "Absolute Greatest Sim Game - NO ADS OR PURCHASES" Pick a race. Build a colony. Fight your neighbors. What’s better? Best part is no marketing whatsoever! Love the game and have played it countless hours over the last few years. Still my favorite game on iPad. Only suggestion would be to allow more than 1 human player. Smooth, no glitches, and always challenging. -- Kawboy69, 2023-05-06 ### ****- "Simple but fun" Great tablet game that feels like Masters of Orion or Stellaris. Simple. Maybe too simple, but easily replayable many times -- Ccwebb2, 2022-10-20 ### ***** "STILL A CLASSIC (July 2022)" BUY IT RIGHT NOW… LOOK at the ratings. This 4x classic is heavily inspired by a 90’s classic “Master of Orion” In my mind though, this is our Stellaris! A shame… no upcoming publishers or game investors have not looked at this game, and reached out to the developer (Rocco) He is amazing with his community, always engaging - would he had… had the backing, this would have been a large platform bringing profits, easily could had fit in an esports type setting as well, focusing on the battles and various tech setups for each players - play style. Excellent multiplayer (main feature) -- Lost in Tactics, 2022-07-30 ### ****- "Spying currently broken" Like the reviewer from February, the spying UI doesn’t work for me. Can’t move spies off an empire once placed there. iPad Air 2020 and iOS 15.5 -- OldSchoolDK, 2022-07-08 ### *---- "Don’t do it." This game spits on the memory of Master of Orion by claiming to be it. They’ve managed to make an uncanny valley recreation of MoO that comes close enough to remind you of the original while falling substantially short of it. The gameplay isn’t as good, the graphics aren’t as good, the AI is dumber in all respects (dumber than a game made in the mid-90’s mind you). Just go get the actual MoO II (or 1 if you prefer) on Steam. -- Hercamer Battle Wagon, 2022-04-02 ### ***** "Galaxy screen not sorting" Returned to the game and discovered that the Galaxy screen is not working. It’s sorted Alphabetically by default and can’t be changed. Please fix. -- Alex Post, 2022-04-01 ### ***-- "Love this game until last update" Latest update makes the build queue render incorrectly, with overlapping text pushed half way off the right of the display area. Queue management is not completely functional now, making the game too frustrating to play. Would be great if this would be fixed… -- scotthamilton77, 2022-02-13 ### ***-- "Problems since last update" Since the latest update I cannot move my spies once placed on a player they can’t be moved, also the build screen while on planet doesn’t show properly it runs off the right side of the screen, please fix my game, it’s one game I’ve played for over 3 years. I’ll go back to a 5 star if fixed! -- Jayjonesnwa, 2022-02-12 ### *---- "I love this game" It has a glitch. You assign a planet to build ships. It is all misaligned. You can’t make changes. The game in not playable like this. -- Mcdiode, 2022-02-12 ### **--- "Fantastic game but the recent update broke it" Love this app but the recent update broke the game for me. I still play this frequently so im sad :( -- Sample reviewer, 2022-02-11 ### *---- "All locked up" Starbase Orion is a rewrite a reach for the stars I hope rewrite reach for the stars and to Pascal and Adelphi back in the 90s one of the assisting people on development with a friend of mine, vander, And all of that was fine I’m loaded the game on my phone I try to play it and every time I try to purchase a leader or I try I have any other interaction with in the game with diplomacy itlocked up I notified this as a problem with in the game got no response so I requested a refund and the game will not even give me a refund very poor -- Dennisdmcgill, 2022-01-05 ### ***** "Bugs in Latest OS" I’ve been playing for many years. Love this game. Wish there were more like it… But diplomacy has bugs with new OS15 patch: the game freezes if you try to create a pact. Still playable. Just not with that mechanic. -- AQK, 2021-11-11 ### ***-- "Desperately needs a new makeover" I would buy an updated version of this game today. It is very outdated in play, great in concept. -- Woody 2069a, 2021-09-04 ### ***-- "Tedious and repetitive" The UI and UX only marginally resemble MOO and the gameplay is slow and tedious. After a while, all you want to do is hit ‘next turn’ repeatedly because the actions to manage your planets are so repetitive and boring. Save your money. I regret spending the $8 on this game as I definitely got much less value and enjoyment out of it. -- Gazzyttt, 2021-06-09 ### ***** "Its like a mobile stellaris!" I don’t normally rate games, but ever since my gaming pc broke in late 2020 ive been looking for a game like Paradox’s Stellaris. People this is it. You can colonize planets like stellaris, make fleets and have tech like stellaris, its just great. I remeber playing an older game like this but idk what its called, but this is a must have for stellaris fans -- Deeznuts rock, 2021-03-03 [View all Starbase Orion reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Starbase Orion Discovered Keywords - turn based strategy - starbase orion ## Starbase Orion Available In - [United States](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/united-states) - [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/canada) - [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/united-kingdom) - [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/australia) - [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/russia) - [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/singapore) - [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/norway) - [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/switzerland) - [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/japan) - [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/israel) - [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/turkey) - [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/south-korea) - [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/brazil) - [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/hong-kong) - [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/new-zealand) - [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/mexico) - [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/united-arab-emirates) - [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/argentina) - [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/chile) - [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/colombia) - [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/egypt) - [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/indonesia) - [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/kazakhstan) - [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/malaysia) - [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/peru) - [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/philippines) - [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/thailand) - [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/taiwan) - [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/south-africa) - [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/algeria) - [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/dominican-republic) - [Panama](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/panama) - [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/ukraine) - [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/azerbaijan) - [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/pakistan) - [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/belarus) - [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/saudi-arabia) - [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/brunei) - [Uzbekistan](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/uzbekistan) - [Tunisia](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/tunisia) - [India](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/india) - [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/kuwait) - [Bahrain](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/bahrain) - [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/lebanon) - [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/ecuador) - [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/vietnam) - [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/starbase-orion-PnBe/nigeria) --- ## About AppTail [AppTail](https://apptail.io) is a mobile app intelligence platform providing app analytics, ASO (App Store Optimization) tools, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, revenue estimates, and review monitoring for iOS App Store apps. 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