Genre Explainers
Strategy and Sim Game Glossary: Key Terms Explained
Plain-English definitions of the terms strategy and sim players meet most, from APM and build orders to casus belli, ratios, IFR and VFR.
Genre Explainers
Genre Explainers
The Best Strategy Games for Beginners (and Why They Teach Well)
Strategy games that teach newcomers well across RTS, 4X, grand strategy, tactics and builders, why each works and what to play next.
Genre Explainers
How Total War Works: Turn-Based Campaigns and Real-Time Battles
How Creative Assembly's Total War blends a turn-based campaign map with real-time battles: settlements, armies, generals, morale, terrain and auto-resolve.
Genre Explainers
What Makes a Management or Tycoon Game? The Genre Explained
What defines management and tycoon games, from Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon to Two Point, Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution.
Genre Explainers
RTS vs 4X vs Grand Strategy: How the Strategy Subgenres Differ
A clear map of the strategy family: RTS, real-time and turn-based tactics, 4X, grand strategy and hybrids like Total War, compared side by side.
Genre Explainers
What Is a 4X Game? Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate Explained
What "4X" means, where the term came from, and how Civilization, Master of Orion, Stellaris and Endless Space turn four verbs into a genre.