Orion Conspiracy, The

MS-DOS · 1995 · WOR

Also known as: The Orion Conspiracy (US)

Publisher: Domark · Developer: Divide By Zero · Genre: Adventure

The Orion Conspiracy is a futuristic adventure game set in the year 2160, when space travel is a common thing. The player controls the Irish man Devlin McCormack as he arrives at the deep space station Cerberus following the death of his son Danny. Initially he only intends to stay for a short time, but when it is discovered he was murdered, he decides to stay and investigate the circumstances of the death. The game starts immediately after McCormack's arrival on the ship and the funeral. As the story progresses he has deal with his son's homosexuality, but there is also another major plotline that involves the Kobayashi Corporation, a secret research project, a black hole, an aliens that are trained to be slaves, which leads to an invasion. He also has his own skeletons however, shell-shocked from a war and accused of having driven his wife to suicide.