Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

I have only done a few of the tutorials. I can already tell this is the most detail specific city builder I have ever played. You almost need a background in engineering, logistics, and in city planning and management. Graphically, it looks like Sim City 4. so looks dated. I can understand why, there is so much in this game to unpack.

So immersive, so layered, a really deep simulation. I love the balance between detail but not micromanagement, between challenge but tangible progress. I've played a couple hundred hours and still only feel like I've scratched the surface. I'm really enjoying it and feel like this will be my go-to city builder for a long time.

Fantastically complex. Wish I was unemployed so I could give this game the time it demands (and deserves tbh).

This is the first game that I didn't like but will not be asking for a refund. Even though this game is not for me, I still appreciate the effort the creators put into it. I was born in the USSR and for the very limited time I could stand this game I enjoyed its quirkiness and soundtrack.

I couldn't even make it through the tutorial though because it's just too much. The game already started to look like a major chore. The weird road connections, conveyor mechanics, UI from the 90s (may be intentional?) and very odd English translation make it unbearable very fast. I'm off to play Cities Skylines, but someone will definitely enjoy this game. Thanks for the memories, developers!

This game really is a city builder on factori crack. This game is a real logistical Simulator combined with running a City and ontop of that you have to keep in mind you are building a Soviet Repubilc, where there is no space for luxury or privatisation. It‘s your task to get everything running and that well. One mistake can cost you your whole republic. The systhems in this game are comparable to a Cardhouse, if your base is weak, everything will collapses sooner or later. Just getting a running city is a hustle, as Tutorials only provide some guidance. However the Internet provides you with a lot of guides and as soon as you understood the core, you can easily build something great. So this game is hard to master and hard to start, but it has a lot to go for. I would recommend anyone to first look at some YouTube videos and then think about buying it. It‘s not for everyone but certainly is a good game for ceartain people. It reminds me on a sort of chaotic Factorio, but this is a far stretch.

A fantastic city builder with factory elements.

W&R has a really strong next turn/ task effect that will have you smoking cigars for the next 50 hours (or more). Do you get the reference? :)

One of the most interesting aspects is building, you can use Rubles, Western Dollars, or have your own construction teams and have industries to supply them.

If you like the Tropico series, this game is the next step up. (The only thing lacking is the politics).
If you like managing your cities, trucks, and industries with good detail, this game is for you comrade.
If you like Cities Skylines I or II, but want a more realistic experience look no further.

Most complete and amazing city builder out there! Also the theme is pretty original vs "regular" city builder. Really amaze by the quality of the details and deepness of the game!

There is no other city builder with this amount of in depth manager mechanics. I suggest to do the basic tutorial first, then the first campaign, after that, the advanced tutorials, and finally the second campaign.

Fellow Comrade
I urge you to turn away from the capitalist shithole that is CS2 to explore the realms of WRSR.
Here you make city planning decisions that have a real impact and play with non-bloated features designed around mindless capitalist expansion and the alienation of labour from our fellow workers. Together we can rise and break the shackles of commercialization to forge a new frontier for the people in a rejuvenated socialist republic.

This game is very complex, too much micromanagement. Time flows very slow, it is for somebody having at least 100++ hours a month, and I do not have that unfortunately.

Ladies and Gentlemen
I present to You the BEST City Country building simulator game
The level of gameplay detail, mechanics, economics in this Game is just something that blows Your mind

Gargantuan maps, with an great map editor gives You a chance to create Your own perfect Republic
Although the commie thematic might not be appealing to the eye, some community created content will fix that issue
Micromanage Your economy, build, expand, create
ENJOY!

I really wanted to like this, but I found the UI impossible to use and there were no significant accessibility features to make that experience better.

I'm sorry but this game has some of the worst road tools I've ever seen in a city builder which is a problem in a game like this where so much of it involves laying down new roads. My last straw was having to look up work arounds to get just a simple 90 degree turn which still ended up looking really janky

Needs some major rework since it is bit clunky at the times, but still is one of a kind hardcore mix of Cities: Skylines and Factorio that will test your planning and strategizing skills like no other game out there.

The kind of super in-depth city/state simulation game I've been hungering for. This is nothing like cities skylines, you can't place the service building down and expect it to work, it needs 2-3 different forms of either pumps, switches, that connect to substations (that can get overloaded if there's too many buildings!), hell even your power plants need supply chains in order to actually make them function. And you won't even have cars yet (BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO MANUFACTURE YOUR OWN CARS) so pedestrians need to be close to your plants or else they just won't bother walking long distances.
It's so much, its so overwhelming, I enjoy it much.

I am really enjoying trying to make my new nation independent in all facets. The realistic mode is pretty intense though.

The game has major issues with its tutorial and overall execution, making it a frustrating experience for those expecting a city-building game with guidance and clear systems. The tutorial barely explains how things work and leaves players guessing about the functions of buildings and systems. Key features are often not explained, such as what certain buildings actually do or how specific systems function, requiring players to build things and figure it out themselves. There is no easy way to access helpful information about buildings; you have to build them to learn their purpose, which is tedious.

I got stuck on the coal part of the campaign as it does not explain things well. It half arse explains stuff. While the game has potential due to its detail and complexity, the lack of polish, poor execution, and frustrating systems lead to an overall negative experience. If you prefer games with more guidance and less frustration, it’s suggested to avoid this one, as it ultimately feels like a slow, boring management sim with too many technical issues. I am seeking a refund.

I once heard someone call this Dark Souls City Skylines and I feel that is an apt description.

Plenty of annoying bugs and restrictions I wish the'd fix but there's no game like it, and I love it dearly.

10/10

Very very close to almost being a very good complicated city builder. Walking distance needs a massive overhaul, seriously 300 meters is just shy of 1000 feet a distance you probably walk on a regular grocery trip in the store. Workers have a very hard time or are just unable to ride busses unless you tell them to work at the bus station because that makes sense. Having to have workers to get the resources is amazing but again the workers cant walk more than 250 meters sometimes and refuse to take the bus unless you force them to work at the station. everything else works fantastic with some odd limitations, but the biggest game killing crutch is the walking distance, yeah walking half a mile to work sucks but also its the 60s in a soviet country, suck it up or take the bus.

This game isn't just unforgiving it is tedious. they need to make placing of roads, bus lines, conveyor belts much much easier. setting up any building should just automatically come with a few trucks just so it works. i just spend 3 hours trying to get a coal mine and iron mine to feed into a steel mill and eventually just gave up. people wont take busses to work. you literally have to purchase individual trucks for EVERYTHING and then manually tell them to drive here then there and industries require dozens of vehicles each. if your people cant walk to something it doesnt work at all and the distance is only 300 meters.

Awful interface makes this game unplayable.

Logistics! Less pretty than Anno but more satisfying in a way. Barely scratched the surface and can't wait for more.

Cool game, although it doesn't tell you very well how to play it. Very pleasant experience after you watch some YouTube guides on how to do the basics

Had seen this game floating around on youtube every once in a while and finally decided to bite the bullet and buy it on sale. I'm now 40 hours in and completely addicted to constructing and optimizing industry flow
10/10 - will ruin your life

good storyline, okay graphics, terrible mechanics, non existent guidance.
if you do not micro-manage, you will silently and suddenly die.

needs serious work still.

Basically Russian Sim city/ Tropico. highly recommend if your a fan of city builders with lots of mico management.

I had my eye on this for years while it was in early access. I've really been looking for a follow up to the Tropico series but sadly this isn't it. More in line with something like City Skylines. Overly complicated systems, lack of any real information or tool tips, you'll be guessing for hours what buildings actually do. the tutorials are more guided examples than actual teaching tools and a few didn't work right, can't build outside of what the tutorial wants and the tutorial has you build things incorrectly, so the missions wont finish. Sure you can deactivate systems in the game set up but that severely limits what you can build. Don't want to worry about your education, turn it off, now you can't build kindergardens even for the roleplay or aesthetic. sure you can turn then on and off at will in game in sub menus but it's annoying none the less.

Worst of all if the lack of atmosphere and character to that game. Tropico was vibrant with great voice acting and life, this game just feels cold dead and lifeless, outside of a few Communist statues and some Soviet era car skins this game really does nothing to drive home the theme. There are no thematic laws or decrees to enact, no price/wage/rent modifiers so profitability comes down to supply chain efficacy and nothing more and given that the traffic AI is buggy your pretty much S.O.L. on that one. I was hoping for a fast fun city builder, what i got was a slow boring management sim. A little bit of voice acting and some personality would do wonders for this game, not to mention tool tips and descriptions.

If you prefer spreadsheets to fun it might be up your ally, otherwise avoid it, Just do a communist play through on Tropico and thank me later, it will be far more fun and immersive. I'm just sad I can't get my money or the day off I wasted trying to learn how to play this back.

Unbelievably addictive. At roughly 170 hours of playtime, I feel I have only scratched the surface of its mechanisms. It still has its rough edges, but coming off the Cities Skylines and Transport Fever franchises it is refreshing to have a simulation game that is not modelled after North American suburban sprawl + has a convincing economic simulation.

Absolutely amazing game.
Very realistic and fun to play. Lots of planning and mechanics and details. I thinks it needs a bit more work on the UX and then I will call it a perfect game and it already is pretty close to being perfect.

Love the attention to detail in this game. It takes a bit of effort to master but is well worth it.

This is one of the best City Builders I have ever played.

It's tough, but the Sandbox Mode is excellent and ever-forgiving.

Highly Recommended for City Builder fans!!!

This game is amazingly deep and incredibly fun. From graphics to the music, it feels like 60s in the soviet era. There are some bugs but devs work to squash them. Very, very difficult learning curve, I would suggest doing the first few tutorials and the first mission beginning to end. Frustratingly addictive, and a darned good soundtrack. Excellent game.

When people ask me, "What do you do for a living?" I say, "I own and operate a few businesses part time while overseeing a beautifully designed self sustaining, profitable soviet empire." 10/5 stars. Will never play another city or resource management game again.

Its a complex city builder with a soviet aesthetic. Looking forward to future updates. A game full of potential worth a buy.

I can't even get past the tutorial with how wonky and specific things need to be in this game. Found it extremely unintuitive

Fantastic game, so many variables and customizable things, it can be enfuriating at times but the game is lots of fum, some of the AI is dumb and annoying but the best way to plan a soviet style economy. 10/10

Schönes Spiel, aber sollte nur im Rabatt gekauft werden. Ist so seinen Preis nicht wert, sonst sehr schönes Spiel.
Man lernt das Spiel auch gut ohne Tutorial durch ausprobieren und selber Überlegen, was sehr lobenswert ist.
Die Straßenführung kann allerdings sein Eigenleben entwickeln...

The game mechanics is NOT complete. i have trains run out of gas next to the refueling station and the cascading effects from that make the game unusable.

Very good game, but definetly not for everyone.
My favourite mechanic is the construction from your own resources, which is very unique.
Overall I can only reccomend this game

You'll love this game if you've got hours to spend manually managing every inch of infrastructure and micromanaging each and every building and service, if that's your thing. But for anyone with a life, this game is overly tedious and you'll feel like tearing your hair out long before you've even achieved anything noteworthy.

The depth of this game is immense (probably the most detailed and in-depth city / society sim out there, and don't take that lightly!) - but that makes it even more important that this game should have a really solid tutorial - unfortunately, this game falls flat on that front as the in-game tutorial is terrible. You'll end up trying to find a decent YouTube tutorial, most of which are just as useless as the in-game tutorial, and by the time you just go "I give up! This isn't for me" you're well beyond the steam policy of 2 hours gameplay and not entitled to a refund.

I love in-depth micromanagement games, but I'd argue this game is way too tedious, and with such a terrible tutorial, the learning curve is too steep for me to personally be any fun.

So if you have time to kill, a load of patience, and a love of "the grind" in games, then I'd recommend this game - but if you don't have a lot of time and prefer keeping your blood pressure low, I'd steer clear of this because you will end up wasting your money.

Is gud. Does a bit of everything; city building, logistics, Lenin statues. I'd say it does most of it pretty competently. Some features can be pretty jank, and the tutorials don't really help much. The campaigns are kind of an extended tutorial but you're really expected to work most things out yourself. Anything you can think of needs micromanaging, so if you're more of an idle player this game isn't really for you. Overall though pretty cool so far. Any problems in the game can be fixed by simply plopping down hundreds of Lenin statues and ignoring your citizens. 10/10

Looked very promising, but sadly cannot recommend it. The tutorials surrounding industry are hilariously insufficient, and the AI for cargo trains is infuriatingly bad. Also it seems they went full realism with this one, which without adequate tutorials will give you hours of head scratching. It's one of those games. Can be your dream, can also be your nightmare, depends on who you are.

This game ticks every single ADHD box in my brain. 154 hours in six weeks? Wish I could have done 250. You were warned.

This game is difficult just because of what it is - Sim City/Cities:Skylines with as much of the nitty-gritty micromanaging s#!t turned on as you want. The tutorials suck but the community is helpful - even so there are definite holes in the knowledge of the game's inner workings (DO/RDO priority anyone?) You want to manage exactly how many workers are churning out food? Done. Want to set exactly how much food you keep in your shopping center warehouse? Sorry, too low - your citizens are starving so they didnt show up for work to make more food and your republic just died. Better luck next time.

The level that you can zoom in to and watch things happening and the detail of the simulation are phenomenal. It is SUCH a good game and will only get better with community input and development. I can't recommend this game highly enough!

Road and path system is so annoying, made me want to play tropico or city skylines.

There's a lot to love here. Its a really immersive experience. But the UI is so bad it ruins all the fun. The process of building roads and railroads is absolutely abysmal and the whole transportation thing is half the game.

Devs never bothered to fix sewage discharge building. Any game that relies on mods to fix core functionality of the game is not worth a positive rating, no matter how well other game loops are implemented.

This game is living proof communism always end in collapse (I am an incompetent planner).

Jokes aside, I love it. I love every aspect of it. I love how stuff is set in stone, how workers won't travel to far away workplaces as they are not starvation motivated, I love how building your automobile industry is the paragon of your society, how it captures the essence of socialism I knew in Yugoslavia, where the state just wanted to build a self sufficient economy and trade with both blocks. The game is getting better with every update and there is tons of mods.

A great game with of elements of Sim city, A-train, Railroad tycoon, and Settlers resource management amongst others. Initial learning curve is quite high, but once you get the concepts its good fun.

It is probably the best city building game, and I have played almost all of them out there. I like it being in modern era and not starting from prehistoric age as found in many games. Its complexity is well thought. It is not easy to get the grasp of how to play but you should give it some time. Once you get to know how things work it is immensely satisfying. It has everythning, from agriculture to complex trasnportation af raw materilas, combinations and production of higher end products like airplanes. It has trasportation for citizens for work, leisure or school, it has plumbing, heating, electricity infrastructure, it has light and heavy industry, trading with soviet and western nations, tourism and much much more. I have bought this game because the developers deserve it. They have done an excellent work.

Things I would like to see in the future:
-Better graphics- They are not that bad but they surely could be better.
-Better tutorials- They are very poor and some have bugs.

Overall it is a great game, support the developers and buy it. It is a refreshing change from all the popular games that are copy paste of old ideas. You will not regret it.

this is the best game i have ever played its better than cities skylines 1 & 2 and its better than all city building games. its very realistic. it has mods. and its just the best.