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Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is highly inspired by the works of Stanisław Lem and contains numerous references to his works.
Many 4X games award victory to the first player to master an advanced technology, accumulate a large amount of culture, or complete an awe-inspiring achievement. [33] Several 4X games award "diplomatic victory" to anyone who can win an election decided by their rival players, [36] [37] or maintain peace for a specified number of turns. [35]
It was the first game to be described as a 4X game, [58] and helped establish the conventions for the genre going forward. [59] The team behind Stellaris based their game partially on the Master of Orion series, [ 60 ] but also said it was important to "try new things and leave the old formulas from the 90s behind". [ 61 ]
Space Engineers was developed and published by the indie video game developer Keen Software House based in the Czech Republic. Implemented as a voxel-based sandbox game set in an asteroid field in space, built on their own game engine, VRAGE 2. [13] Its core feature is volumetricity of the environment.
The game development studio was one of the first video game developers to create games in the grand strategy genre, and most of the games the studio has developed fall into that category. Grand strategy games are strategy games that usually cover the entire world map and include elements such as economy, diplomacy and warfare.
Wormholes in video games Game Description Space Rogue: The science fiction computer game Space Rogue featured the use of technologically harnessed wormholes called "Malir gates" as mechanisms for interstellar travel. Navigation through the space within wormholes was a part of gameplay and had its own perils.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series.Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet Chiron ("Planet") in the Alpha Centauri star system.
In a Campaign game, the player can play through 24 scripted missions, 12 for each colony. These missions challenge the player to maintain population levels, collect resources, construct kits and vehicles, and perform research, all within a strict time limit, to keep moving the colony away from either the advancing blight or lava flows.