Ogre
Ogre is a 2D turn-based strategy game, and a direct computer conversion of Steve Jackson's board game of supertanks going against conventional infantry with howitzers. It plays exactly like the board game - on…
Ogre is a card & board game developed by Origin, released 31 December 1986 on Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit and Atari ST/STE. It currently starts at $2.24 at Fanatical.
What Ogre is
Ogre is a card & board game game developed by Origin and released in 1986. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac and MSX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ogre is a 2D turn-based strategy game, and a direct computer conversion of Steve Jackson's board game of supertanks going against conventional infantry with howitzers. It plays exactly like the board game - on a hex-based board one player controls ordinary military units (soldiers, tanks etc.), and defends against the second player, who controls a supertank named "Ogre" - Ogre is very powerful, and can easily destroy normal weaponry and ground forces.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Ogre holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1986 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.24 at Fanatical, 91% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Ogre launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Rebelstar. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Rebelstar.
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