4X is a genre of strategy video games in which players control an empire and "explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate". The term was first coined by videogame writer Alan Emrich in his September 1993 preview of Master of Orion for Computer Gaming World1. The formative era of 4X games was the 1990s, in which games like Civilization and Heroes of Might and Magic were released.
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