One of the most complicated video games ever made attempts to simulate literally everything about a 500 year period of history, in which you get to shape the world however you want.

The PC is currently enjoying a new golden age as a popular video game format, but there are clear differences between now and its last period of pre-eminence in the 90s. Back then there was barely any such thing as indie gaming and console exclusive titles never appeared on PC, while the PC itself received many big budget exclusives, published by major publishers.

Times have changed, and largely for the better, but the one downside is that those exclusives have disappeared. There are plenty of smaller budget indie titles that remain PC only but the only other ones tend to be complex strategy games that only r

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