It's been a decade since Endless Legend, the 4X genre's most inventive weirdo and the closest thing we've got to a modern Alpha Centauri, launched—we're long overdue another one

The mighty 4X genre is my forever obsession. Even while massive RPGs and life-consuming MMOs steal me away, I'm never too far away from conducting another conquest of a fantasy realm or an entire galaxy, rallying my armies or pretending I'm down for diplomacy when I'm really just planning to pinch some new technology. But for the last decade, every conquest, every deal, every new city plonked down has hammered home one sorrowful fact: this doesn't feel quite as good as it did in Endless Legend... Read more.