Civilization gets its first real competition in 30 years, but can this new pretender really beat the king of 4X strategy? Sometimes things are exactly what they seem to be. The second you see a ...

Amplitude's big play for the historical grand strategy crown is ambitious and considered, but it's missing a little magic. Ideology's always been a part of grand, 4X strategy games. It's there in the ...

Humankind, like most of the 4X games – that’s Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate, to save you the Google – it takes inspiration from, is a game about building empires. The difference is, ...

For a long time, Sid Meier’s Civilization reigned as the king of the turn-based, society-building genre. Civilization's take on 4X strategy games, with its focus on empires, cities, and territorial ...

HUMANKIND is the next big historical strategy game. That’s both a statement of its aims and my feelings about it. Honestly, if you’re into strategy games and history in the slightest, that’ll probably ...