Frankly, to classify Nuclear Dawn without going “it’s a bit like X” would take a paragraph. Instead, I’m going to propose a simple classification system, to do away with the frankly amazing bollocks that are the arbitrary genres we impose now, in favour of a more rational, long-winded bollocks. On the basis of my revolutionary & hubristic system, Nuclear Dawn is as follows:

Science-fiction*Multiplayer*((topdown*strategy)xor(first-person*shooter))

or, shorter:

SF*MP*((TD*ST)xor(FP*SH))(more…)