The best 4X games deliver some of the most satisfyingly in-depth strategy experiences that are built around four pillars: explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate. Essentially, many games in the ...

With Civilization 7, Firaxis is trying to cut out a lot of the micromanagement and the noise of the conventional 4X game. For that, the studio deserves credit - given the series' history, and the ...

Play as a space merchant selling and trading your wares across the galaxy in Stellar Trader, a new 4X space-trading sci-fi sim in development for PC. You'll build space stations, negotiate prices, ...

Imagine if you took the core top-down action of League of Legends or Dota 2 and transposed it into a vast, Civilization 7-style hex-grid map, where all your units were real players. It sounds ...

Stellar Reach is a 4X sci-fi strategy that puts you in control of one of eight factions vying for dominance across a hostile and dangerous galactic frontier. At the dawn of the interstellar era, ...

A sentient rock, an ancient hologram and an alien zealot are debating how we respond to the imminent arrival of a slumbering, long-forgotten god. Do we try to shackle them? Do we prostrate ourselves ...