The best Steam 4X Fest games for 2025 caught us all by surprise. Following some massive Steam sales this summer, our wallets thought they'd have time to recover ahead of several of the releases of the ...

4X games are a special breed. They give you a taste of godhood, granting you an all seeing eye and the ability to manage an entire planet — or even the cosmos itself. Today, I wanted to peer into this ...

Jason is a classic jack-of-all-trades writer who loves to cover most topics, though gaming has always been his strong suit. After spending the better part of the past decade freelancing for various ...

At its core, the best 4X games allow the player to do four things: eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, and eXplore. Many relish the turn-based focus as it allows players to think before each move, and yet ...

Strategy games and historical accuracy seem to go hand in hand. Europa Universalis is perhaps the best example, or maybe Age of Empires or Crusader Kings. But what if there was a middle ground, a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Developer Chimera Entertainment has revealed that 4X strategy game Songs of Silence will be released on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on November 13.

From Civilization to Stellaris, these are the 20 best 4X games to pick up and play today.

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Playing board games isn’t just a lot of fun — there’s evidence that the “cognitively stimulating” activity can bolster cognition and reduce your chances of developing dementia. If that’s true, then we ...