RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games

Published on July 21, 2011 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

RTSguru.com has published a list of the best space-based 4x strategy games, and has included Galactic Civilizations II and Sins of a Solar Empire in their list!

What do you think about the choices?

http://www.rtsguru.com/features/160/The-List-Best-Space-Based-4X-Strategy-Games.html

2) Sins of a Solar Empire – I’m including this one even if the developers didn’t/don’t really consider it strictly a 4X game, they prefer the tag of RT4X. Which, I guess I kinda get their point; it was a blend of RTS and 4X after all. Whatever you want to call it, Sins is a blast to play. While it didn’t have as many different races and other depth as most 4X games out there, that actually improved the multiplayer side of things. Most 4X games don’t really cater to multiplayer, since they make for some really long games. The fact that Sins was a RTS/4X hybrid, it was quite a bit faster to play and lead to some fun multiplayer games. Ironclad released 2 ‘micro-expansions’ and one full-fledged stand-alone expansion that greatly improved and expanded the game.

Comments (Page 3)

louist

on Aug 07, 2011

PeterStone

reply 28

I love the 4X games. One game that I think should be remade was the extremely underrated game Emperor of the Fading Suns. What impressed me most about that game was a distinct history and distinct setting. It took the gothic sci-fi to the extreme and when playing the game you felt that you were in a gothic sc-fi setting similar to warhammer 40k. It would be great if this game were updated because it would feel different then a lot of the current 4x games.

I'm with you here. EotFS was (and is) a great game. It still runs on modern machines, though the interface is a little slow and it suffers the odd graphical or sound glitch. I'd love to see it remade, or at least updated, but I don't think that's likely in this age of fast-paced gun-fests. Fading Suns simply takes too long to play a single turn to be seriously considered by most devs.

There is a fan-created spiritual successor, Echos of Imperium, in the works over here.

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