Orcs
Creatures theme
Features Orcs or Orc-like creatures.
313
games
54platforms
MAC 1993
PS2 2001-12
WIN 2009-01-15
DOS 1993
WIN 2006-10-13
ANDR 2010-04-10
WIN 2010-08-12
OCS 1990-07
X360 2011-09
C64 1988
X360 2008-02
MAC 1988
Tolkien orcs vary is size from Hobbit sized to giant. With most being slightly shorter than humans. They come in shades of Sallow, Green, Brown, Grey, Olive, Blue, and Yellow. They are very likely bred from Elves by Melcor into their perverse form. What little art, religion, craft, and culture they have is based on cruelty and perversion of the crafts of there races. They marched into battle for Melcor as a powerful army but lived in fear of Sauron whom they hated. Yet have invented gods of war to worship (these may in fact be based on notable Orcs that lived and died in the past). They hate everything, including themselves. After being left to their own devices by Sauron in the first age, two independent settlements were founded by Orcs. Other settlements arose by invading and taking over the settlements of other races (but these were eventually retaken or taken by another race). After being draw into war for Sauron in the second age, they became much more independant and were never as useful to Sauron as they had once been. In the third age, many Orcs chose loyalties to the Witch-king of Angmar, Sauromon, Sauron, or (a minority) remained independent.
The first Orcs video game was released in 1975.
Parent groups
Fictional creatures, Goblinoids, Humanoids