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4X Strategy: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate

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1. Sid Meier's Civilization IV - PC Games

Release: Oct. 2005

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246

7.8

2. Sid Meier's Civilization III - PC Games

Release: Nov. 2001

Prelude's rating:

136

7.9

3. Sid Meier's Civilization II - PC Games

Release: 1996

Prelude's rating:

68

7.7

4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - PC Games

Release: Jan. 1999

Prelude's rating:

72

8

5. Homeworld - PC Games

Release: Sep. 1999 \\ Real-Time 4X Strategy

58

8

6. Homeworld 2 - PC Games

Release: Sep. 2003 \\ Real-Time 4X Strategy & Combat

39

6.6

7. Civilization: Call To Power - PC Games

54

9.2

8. Sid Meier's Civilization - PC Games

30

5.6

9. Master of Orion 3 - PC Games

Release: Mar. 2003 \\ Turn-based 4x Strategy / Real-Time Combat

37

8.6

10. Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares - PC Games

28

7.2

11. Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords - PC Games

Release: Feb. 2006 \\ Turn-Based 4x Strategy

37

7.6

12. Sins of a Solar Empire - PC Games

Release: Feb. 2008 // Real-time Online Strategy

11

8

13. Call to Power II - PC Games

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17

7.2

14. Master of Orion - PC Games

11

8.3

15. Ascendancy - PC Games

14

8.8

16. Sid Meier's Colonization - PC Games

22

7

17. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization - PC Games

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12

6.5

18. Galactic Civilizations - PC Games

Release: Mar. 2003 \\ Turn-Based 4x Strategy

Prelude's rating:

4

0

19. Space Empires IV Deluxe - PC Games

2

0

20. Space Empires V - PC Games

5

5.7

21. Lost Empire: Immortals - PC Games

Release: Mar. 2008 \\ Turn-Based 4x Strategy

4

10

22. Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebu... - PC Games

23

8.1

23. Dawn of Discovery / Anno 1404 - PC Games

4X refers to a video game genre with four primary goals, namely to "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate." The first 4X games were turn-based, but game developers have created real-time 4X games, as well.

The term "4X" was first used by Alan Emrich, in the September 1993 issue of Computer Gaming World, in the review of Master of Orion. Mainstream reviewers now use "4X" in articles about games which follow a similar pattern.

Many typical features of 4X games had appeared earlier, in board games and in 1970s computer games.

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Posted: 2 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 10:04

Masters of magic. Its better than Orion 1.
The HomeWorld series is probably an rts.

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