"Turn-based games are obsolete and a product of past gaming limitations"

[Silica Pathways]

Do PDX games count as RTS or are they their own category?

RTwP, i.e., Real Time with Pause. I would say it is a separate genre from RTS, since being able to pause game makes a rather huge difference. I've over 4,2k hours in CK2 and I do abuse pausing A LOT, so for me it plays almost like a TBS, for example I have game options set so the game autopauses on most of popup messages (with the exception of tech percentage spread messages that have little use), so every 'step' of game (i.e., units arriving, diplo messages received, construction being complete etc) game gets paused.

 

[Norzan]

Ended up getting the Dragon Quest 3 remake on Steam and i'm having a blast. I swear this franchise has some sort of voodoo magic that makes its turn based combat so fun even in the earlier games.