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4X Strategy: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate

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7.6

1. Sid Meier's Civilization IV - PC Games

Release: Oct. 2005

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159

7.9

2. Sid Meier's Civilization III - PC Games

Release: Nov. 2001

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7.8

3. Sid Meier's Civilization II - PC Games

Release: 1996

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7.8

4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - PC Games

Release: Jan. 1999

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8.1

5. Homeworld - PC Games

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

8.1

6. Homeworld 2 - PC Games

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

6.5

7. Civilization: Call To Power - PC Games

8. Sid Meier's Civilization - PC Games

9. Master of Orion 3 - PC Games

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

8.9

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

7.7

11. Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords - PC Games

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

9.3

12. Sins of a Solar Empire - PC Games

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

7.4

13. Call to Power II - PC Games

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14. Master of Orion - PC Games

15. Ascendancy - PC Games

8.7

16. Sid Meier's Colonization - PC Games

6.8

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

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6.7

18. Galactic Civilizations - PC Games

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

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19. Space Empires IV Deluxe - PC Games

20. Space Empires V - PC Games

21. Lost Empire: Immortals - PC Games

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

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

9.7

23. Dawn of Discovery / Anno 1404 - PC Games

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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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