As much as everyone loves firing birds from slingshots or making frogs bounce from cloud to cloud, sometimes you just have a craving for something a little more in depth and traditional.
Nothing could scratch that itch better than the classic empire building strategy genre, known as the 4X genre.
For those who are not familiar with that category, 4X is short for ‘explore, expand, exterminate, and exploit’ and while those core features appear in many strategy games, the 4X games generally max out the complexity & detail. These games saw a surge of popularity in the mid 90’s, with games like Master of Orion & Space Empires proving popular. One other title that came out during this time was Ascendancy, which was one of the better games to come out during that boom.
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