boysan98 t1_j10zca3 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 9:43 PM

I played CIV 3 as a kid and it sets you up for one of the most important parts of history without really thinking about it. Geography. Why are river cities OP in CIV, its becuase they're OP in real life. What does technology look like, how are some of these things related. Youre kid wont say these things aloud but the game does a really good job at giving a framework to think about history from a wholistic point of view.

Its a game that also shows a bunch of different cultures that arent super common in the western narrative. They also tend to have some interesting bios that are neat to read.

I was about 7-8 when I started playing. Just really fun engaging games that dont force history on you but deffinitly give a softer approach to many different parts of history.

Also Giant Death Robots are cool.

TheNumLocker OP t1_j12boct wrote on December 21, 2022 at 3:42 AM

Yes Civ of course! Civ4 was one of my favorite games growing up. Strategy games are uniquely situated to capture the underlying structural processes and relations. I’d say Paradox games are best at this (confirmed by historian Bred Devereaux”).