Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Reviews

I thought this was some kind of meme game, but actually, this is the most in-depth city builder that currently exists. A mixture of Tropico, Transport Tycoon, and Factorio. Absolutely recommended.

Very nice, mechanically complex and actually challenging city builder. Though a bit crude when it comes to UI, controls etc.

if you like building cities with many micro management then this is for you (in realistic mode)

Comrade, if you like city building sims, you will LOVE this game. It is alot more complex than many others and the tutorial is really needed to know what the heck is even going on. Enjoy.

Excellent, BUT, you must learn the basics, repeat them, enjoy it and then expand. Don't do farms AND mining AND building products AND... Do one thing at a time, then try something else. Once you get into it, seeing how your city operates through various "view" following trains for example, it is an Awesome game! I started at 10PM, then was called to come have food at 11... 11AM the next morning!!! It's a great game! Love it. BUT, start small with minimal options and master it.

Lots of fun, but can get VERY complicated. Takes a lot of time to understand the game mechanics.

Welcome to the late 20th century comrade! You are tasked to build a city that would make Lenin shed a tear of joy, embark on a task to plan out every meticulous detail in the city. Power, water, sewage, waste, heating, services, industry and multiple statues of Lenin to make all citizens proud of living in the greatest Soviet Republic! The most intricate city-builder game I've played, by the time of writing this review I still have yet to tackle the pain that is realistic mode, however this game offers so many mechanics for you to learn and implement into the city that it can make a city feel really lived in and lively. Nothing beats the feeling of making a city fully self-sustainable and profitable, you can customise the citizen's allegiances and preferences to make them oddly pious in a communist society or go full Eastern European and make them all alcoholics. Honestly the only complaint I have of this game is the infrastructure placements like roads, pavements and rails, which can be very annoying to fiddle with and can make me spend most of my time just trying to make it look proper, but otherwise great game! 9.5/10

This game add way more complexity than your typical resources transport management (well if I don't compare it to mods from another open source game, but even then, they don't have the same gameplay). It has potential to be next to way bigger games in the same genre. Pro: - You can manage way more things than your typical transport management game (power consomption, garbage waste, snow on road, contruction materials, constructions trucks, ...) - You can also enable/disable major gameplay mechanics to fit more with your gameplay - Simple road signs (that does something) (but very limited) Con: - Many UX issues - including around building road/path. That become annoying and they definitively need to work on the layout building experience. - Somewhat limited on the load/unload conditions (while having some kind of unique conditions!) - If you enjoy managing traffic, it doesn't have a lot of stuff Other: - I wish it would use better graphics - If you are a campaign kind of person, there is basically none - Somewhat hard to manage worker ratio in factory at a city/world scale.

My expectation playing for the first time: [b] "Meh. I've played tons of city games. I'll just do some tutorials, then start a new custom game on the hardest mode and figure it out on my own. Easy." [/b] The reality of playing for the first time: [b]1 = cos2 (x) + sin2 (x) = (eix + e-ix )2 /4 + sin2 (x) = (e2ix + e-2ix )/4 + e2ln(sin(x)) + 1/2 [/b] 10/10 game. *After playing for another 70ish hours since my review, I'm gonna say this is probably the best city builder I have ever played.

A traffic jam prevented my workers from reaching the oil power plant that supplied electricity to the entire city. Without power, heating plants also stopped working. My entire city was left with no power and heat in the middle of the winter and everyone died. 11/10 I highly recommend