It's fairly unique though, in that you can fully automate every single part of the game if you like, and the AI will do a decent job of playing if you only want to concentrate on one or two things. Has appoximately a million details about everything, which initially sounds overwhelming. Infamous for having a sound system bug that can randomly dump you out of the game.Ī kind of weird hybrid of 4x/Grand Strat. Has a decent campaign, and an interesting approach to research. Recommend getting the "Rebellion" DLC at minimum as it adds a substantial amount of content.Īnother 4x/RTS hybrid but focusing on very small groups rather than huge armies.
Very good for sitting back and watching lots of ships pew each other, if you're so inclined. Not a huge amount of depth, but what there is is reasonably engaging. There is no campaign, just endless random matches. Hybrid 4x/RTS that is entirely MP/skirmish. 5 & 6 diverge a bit though (not in a bad way).Īlpha Centauri is one of the best games ever (imo), but holy hell is it not a good pick for your 1st 4x. They're just different flavours of the same thing. Attempt no landings there.Īll the civs are good. May or may not be useful.Īll the Master of Orions are good, except 3. Again, for a lot of the reasons I suggested for Stars in Shadow, but for the other genre.
That's important, since a lot of games in the genre really start to crawl as you play them longer.įor "grand strategy" games, the only one I've found myself able to play a whole game of without snoozing andor quitting is Evil Bank Manager ( ). But, more importantly: it's shorter than a lot of 4x games to go start to finish in a complete session. It's also not too "hard", but can get tricky. It's at that sweet spot of playability with enough complexity to how complex games can get.
Honestly, one of my favorite recommendation 4x to start with is currently Stars in Shadow. I always get bored with, and I usually suck at them from that boredom.Īge of Wonders 3 is a good start for a 4x game, except it skews heavily toward "plot" and "rush rush!" I find 4x and "Grand Strategy" games are very different.
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