For some time, Alpha Centauri was the undisputed greatest game of all time. It topped countless lists of the greats, and for many it is still unsurpassed, especially in the 4X genre.

As our own review indicates, Alpha Centauri is a game of exceptional depth, complexity, and challenge, one that is sure to please any discriminating strategy gamer.

Beyond Earth and Alpha Centauri have different names, but still share a lot in common. Three of Alpha Centauri’s developers talk about how these games compare.

Alpha Centauri meanwhile only provided one real path (multiple victories, yes, but that's not the same thing), but a better illusion. It's like dealing with a magician holding a pack of cards.

Alpha Centauri was just too good of a game. One of the victory conditions in every Civilization title is to send a colonizing space expedition to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri.

Civilization: Beyond Earth is the first Civilization game to focus on humanity’s expansion into the stars, but it stands very much in the shadow of Firaxis legendary sci-fi 4X, Alpha Centauri.

I’d heard of the game Alpha Centauri for some time now. It escaped my notice, much as social justice seems to have dodged the notice of the American government for many years.

If you’ve played 1999’s best 4X strategy game, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, that idea will sound familiar. (Fun fact: Alpha Centauri wasn’t called Civilization because Firaxis and publisher ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Alpha Centauri Space Force Execute intense space battle operations from side, and top view. Face tough enemies along your way, destroy guardians and ...

Alpha Centauri sought to write the next part of that story: the game aspired to tell “a history of the future.” The backstory: in the late 21st century the situation on Earth has become ...

The “Breakthrough Starshot” space mission to Alpha Centauri inpsired us to revisit the imagined trips to the star system in books, comics, TV, movies and video games.