“races such as the Horatio, who consist of nothing but clones of a single eccentric hyperbillionaire” DEVELOPER AMPLITUDE STUDIOS
PUBLISHER SEGA
PRICE $39.99
AVAILABLE AT STEAM endless-space.com
The space-empire 4X turn-based strategy genre is, to my mind, one of the most prescriptive in gaming today. To the untrained eye, all 4X games appear the same - the galaxy map, the tech tree, the million billion buttons and icons, and the same basic progression. Start small and primitive, explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate.
From the time the genre appeared with Reach for the Stars in 1983, to maybe 2015, the pace of new 4X releases remained manageably steady. But for some reason, now we’re getting all the 4X games, all at once. The fine details are different but overall each of…