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4X Games

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Best reviewed blends the source score with rating volume. Release order is oldest first, and A–Z is title order. Unusually high scores with very small samples are treated as uncorroborated outliers until more players weigh in.

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Exploration 3 Gameplay facet Procedural Generation 3 Gameplay facet Community Building 2 Gameplay facet Grand Strategy 2 Subgenre Resource Management 2 Gameplay facet Simulation 2 Root Colony Sim 1 Subgenre Farming 1 Gameplay facet

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Empire-building strategy organized around exploration, expansion, exploitation of resources, and competition or extermination.

Include when

Assign 4X when empire-building strategy organized around exploration, expansion, exploitation of resources, and competition or extermination. This must be a sustained, defining part of play rather than an isolated mode or sequence.

Leave out when

Exclude strategy games that contain exploration or expansion incidentally but do not sustain the explore, expand, exploit, and compete cycle.