Explore. Expand. Exploit. Exterminate. These are the four junctures 4X games make a stopover at in their full playthroughs. They may sway from that exact order....
4X games, or eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate games, have been around since the 1990s. They started off on PC consoles. Even now, most 4X games...
There's something about 4X games that just makes them so captivating. Maybe it's the mixture of strategic planning and epic world domination that gets our blood...