Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Masterfully crafted industrialization utopia offering high complexity and enormous freedom for players.

One of the best urban strategies comes from Slovakia, and in addition to its complexity, it also impresses with its setting in the period of socialism. This leitmotif will not bother you, even if this time does not mean anything to you, and when you have experienced it yourself for at least a moment, it will be all the more interesting for you.

A city-building strategy game that is dangerously addictive and captures its historical theme through its gameplay mechanics. In Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, you'll transform villages into sprawling concrete metropolises, coordinate complex production chains, and manage massive distribution networks. Most importantly, you'll have a great time doing it, even though the game occasionally throws a wrench in the works with its clunky elements.

Workers & Resources is a terrific builder. Very complicated, quite ugly, with a cluttered UI and an extremely complex network of mechanics and connections, that looks like something from a fever dream. But it drags you in and offers lots of satisfaction when something finally goes right.

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic is one of the most in-depth economic simulators on the market, offering an excellent experience for the management-enthused player. However, poor placement tech means that players interested in the game’s building side will surely miss out.

It's disappointing that there are only three maps (no random maps at present), and the new themed buildings are usable only when map editing. I imagine its thriving mod scene will fill in those gaps. Biomes is a nice bonus. A bit underwhelming if you want to go all in, but completely skippable if you're fine with the default setting. Thus: it's fine, with potential to become more appealing over time. [RPS Bestest Bests]

Glory belong to communist .All towns With standard mode is no harmful .shop, hospital, cinema, football ground, school ,**** the same .In the past 1960 Chinese communist had big project .But the people are impure .They create Wrong database for promotion .The government responsible for stupidly believing the database .The price is Starving and death . Soviet had more complex problem .The textbook from school is confusion .In game ,Development need lots of money , The game is very difficult even without Fiscal Deficit . But no tax too .Feels like raising those people with my own money. Why the hell i have so many money at beginning is questionable .My goal is stop losing money . Learning is necessary .You may mess up with train or water pump .For propaganda ,This honorable game is better than textbook .I must lead great soviet to paradise

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — это отличная экономическая стратегия, которая погружает игрока в строительство и управление социалистической республикой. Игра впечатляет своей глубокой экономической моделью, детальной симуляцией производства и транспорта, а также возможностью создания самодостаточной плановой экономики. Плюсы: Реалистичная экономика — управление рабочей силой, логистикой и производством ощущается живым и сложным. Гибкость в строительстве — можно проектировать дороги, железные дороги, энергосети и даже детально настраивать цепочки производства. Атмосфера Советского Союза — визуальный стиль, здания и музыка создают уникальную ретро-атмосферу. Постоянные обновления — разработчики активно развивают игру, добавляя новые механики и исправляя ошибки. Минусы: Крутая кривая обучения — новички могут столкнуться с трудностями при освоении сложных механик. Оптимизация — на больших картах с развитой инфраструктурой игра может тормозить. Интерфейс — иногда неудобный и перегруженный информацией. В целом, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — это настоящая находка для любителей глубоких градостроительных симуляторов и экономических стратегий. Если вас не пугает сложность и необходимость разбираться в механиках, то игра подарит массу увлекательных часов.

W&R:SR is as complex of a city-builder as it is rewarding, however in the same measure it was not ready for a full release. Foremost, it's really buggy. I was troubleshooting one issue for a whole hour, just to surrender, quit game, and I launched it the next day only to find everything working properly. Game makes you count resources so such delays are costly. I think a lot of issues stems from the lack of proper testing despite its being an early access title for some years. Basically, if you're having issues and bugs, you're playing "wrong" and developers didn't test that. Secondly, it's really slow. Loading times are tolerable, I'm speaking about in-game speed correlating to the time between events and construction completions. There is no really fast speed multiplier and when you switch from "build by money" mode to "build by construction offices" (meaning, your own construction "firms" and equipment and resources will be used) game turns into a screensaver. Thirdly, while it emphasizes complexities of several mechanics as logistics (trust me, don't use your main road for slow agricultural machinery) or such necesseties as electricity/water/sewers (their supply, transformation and generation is a game in itself) it underdelivers in its management and UI. With necesseties its a lot of guesswork and crisis-management instead of pre-planning. For logistics on each map/scenario you are limited initially to tedious micromanagement of each vehicle route but later you will be able to research a special building for simplification. Yet you still will have a situation of lorries driving between two points with full loads, if you didn't micromanage output and consumption on both ends of the supply chain. However, this (most likely overproduction or if you failed - a deficit) is actually quite characteristic of a soviet states and brings me to the next point. Fourthly, it is so good in showing and therefore bad in telling, tattering the game concept. Concept of a planned economy city builder is nothing new, basically world is yet to see a truly democratic and capitalistic city-builder focussed on policy-making, where you plan, list requirements, hire contractors and allow industries to emegre on themselves. The best competitors can offers - is you build all the infrastructure, supply needs, zone areas, make districts and tax. But it is more of a republic builder with tools to build only cities, and even more than that - soviet ones. So, as I said overproduction eating a hole in the budget - spot on. Nothing to research and little to do between 1970 and 1990 - yep, era of stagnation. You can't build a mine and transport workers from cities because they will run away if commute is too long? - Guess, what, living in nice city you will not want to break your back for coal, which delvil have put in the ground. You have to build inefficiently plethora of small cities with all basic needs taken care of, just like the soviet did to keep miners satisfied enough near mines. Don't want to go broke? No you can't use internal consumption, you have to export. But game doesn't tell you that, making it somewhat educational. And building new and new resource cities is tedious as your tools in building in bulk are quite constrained, like there are no game advisors suggestions or layouts for you, even for power or water lines/pipes. Also, I reiterate, no republican-wide state-influencing tools or game mechanics. Want to know why soviet economy have collapsed? - Try to build one. Fifthly and lastly some miscellaneous issues. There is lack of coherence in vision and UX especially in tutorials, as you basically have separate chapters divided between 3 main ideas and two campaigns, thus ragmenting the initial experience. Also, save files are too bloated, and you can have for better security granular 20 auto-saves every minute, each weighing almost 400 mb, thus combined suprassing the whole game. As of now, for real satisfaction the game provides I should have scored it at 4 or 5, but I do believe that due to the relative success of the game, developers will tap into its potential more with the future updates, troubleshooting and smoothing out a gaming experience, and due to educational value in addition to meaningful DLCs, with hopes for the better I rank it 7/10. Ultimately, my advice, if you are into city-builders is to buy (maybe on discount), play until bored, check a year later. If you are not - well, thank you for the reading, truly appreciated, truly yours, but that maybe is not the game to start, try more popular and widely known ones, even franchises, if I may say so. I wish developers all the best and anticapate their future enterprises, maybe: "A post-soviet republic: policies transformation & foreign investments"?

Игра однозначно крутая, глубокая. Один из лидеров жанра. Но весь этот вот советский сеттинг - не мое.