While many space strategy games focus on the space and resource management, Millenium: Return to Earth stands out like a diamond among quartz among the DOS games with some unusually high stakes, defense against the enemy, and an occasional random event.
This game puts you can charge of an isolated moonbase when life on Earth has been destroyed in a catastrophe and the only other intelligent life is actively hostile to you. Starting with some scarce resources and some limited tech, you gradually build you initial base, explore the solar system using probes, build up defenses against the mutant aggressors, and colonize the solar system before wiping out the enemy.
The gameplay is simple yet requires a decent amount of foresight to achieve a good ending. Though the graphics has only a handful of figures you can find, the style in the illustrations should be attractive to some modern gamers. The game prevents the gameplay from being to montonous by throwing in some emergencies, such as a plague outbreak and a rebellion in some of the colonies.
Millenium: Return to Earth has an inventive gameplay which should be preserved straying from the standard formula of other strategy games while maintaining the tension of a space survival story.