04.11.2021

The Ethics in 4X Gaming

New blog article by Nikhil Murthy

The second half of 2021 has been a moment in the sun for the 4X genre. The normally very niche genre recently had a couple of high-profile releases in Old World and Humankind and it's always exciting to see new games in the genre. Unfortunately though, new games don't always mean new perspectives and the colonial underpinnings of the genre remain untouched. Therefore, I built Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation to try to bring a post-colonial viewpoint to the genre and in doing so hopefully demonstrate the truths that the genre tends to overlook and to show the space in it still left unexplored.

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