KAISERPUNK

This game unfortunately, is not worth your time. I love the idea, the city building itself is alright! It's nothing really crazy on it's own but where it is fun is - SCALE You need tons of materials and factories to create your war industry, while also producing consumer goods for ever increasing massive population to theoretically feed into the war machine. I love it, it's messy, it's BIG BIG BIG and if this was the game, it would be awesommmmee. But the combat part of the game, genuinely sucks. Now this doesn't mean war isn't just un fun, the two armies clashing part really isn't the appeal and it doesn't need to be fun nesscarily. But the game devs genuinely made the worst possible war system for this game. It should be you doing your best to plow as much resources into the war machine as fast as possible, right? That's what every single aspect of the game wants you to do. But nooooooo, the war systems works the completely opposite way!!!! You can only have small amounts of units, and they need to be the highest-end unit or you can't win any battlles. And by that I mean, you quite literally, physically cannot win a battle if you're a tier below. You also cannot do let's say, hordes and hordes of low tier units because of how the combat system works. If you are a tier behind, there is literally nothing, absolutely nothing you can do. Even if you are the same tier (which we'll get into) producing stuff doesn't matter, due to the weird caps and format of the war system. You can have one army per region. Your units move in an almost turn-based fashion but it is real time. You can only give an order every 12 or so hours. Your one army is made up of 8 units. Recruit a unit into an army, takes ages. So an army wiped means days and days of training up and then deploying a it again. Meaning you can never have a numerical advantage.... Meaning you can never deploy your entire army at once...... If you have 2 regions, you can deploy two armies. F-you Deploying a navy, even when you have all the equipment takes weeks. Due to navy using sea nodes instead of regions, it's the only place in the game where numbers can matter. But it takes YEARS to deploy. You can't hide shelter a fleet in port either, so let's say. You lose a battle (because you're a tier behind) and have damaged ships. YOU CANNOT let those sink, cause that'll mean needing to redeploy them which takes a few lifetimes. So you want to reinforce them instead, you will now need to sit on the map screen to micro running away from enemy ships. You can't shelter in port, anything can attack your navy, including random infantry from land regions. Awesome. You can also use naval convoy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to kinda, deploy more armies than you have regions. But it's silly, all it does is save you time to deploy if you lose an army. The AI, magically will be tiers ahead of you. Which means there's literally nothing you can do to win battles. Well then, priorities research in military. And I did. In fact I was running multiple trade deals (you can trade research which is very cool) to MAXIMSE my army research and it's taking real life HOURS to get to tier 4, while the AI has been there for years. I produce more stuff, I can produce higher tier units IF I COULD RESEARCH THEM. I thought about trading the AIs for high tier units instead, you can trade mountains of lower tier stuff for higher tier stuff but... you can't deploy units you haven't researched. I have never, in my life, seen a generational fumble. This game didn't even nesscarily need combat. I just want to funnel buckets and buckets of ♥♥♥♥ and see how what I produce and how fast, impact a front line moving backwards or forwards. Instead I'm stuck on mountains of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ equipment I can't use, to fight a war where only a tiny fraction of anything is being used with a literal statistical impossibility to win any battle. To make it super clear, how much of a GIGANTIC waste of time this game is designed to be: I will have to sit here, and wait for real life hours, to get to the tier 4 in military. Then I will have to re-do every aspect of my city, to match the new production requirements for the high tier units, which will take hours. Then I will have to literally delete my army and again... wait real life hours for my units to be trained and then deployed. Zero respect for the players time. I wish I could refund the game.

Ai keeps cheating and leapfrogs you in research and units created. Incredibly frustrating playing for several hours, only to find out that even the lowest difficulty AI is suddenly has units 2 tiers higher than yours, meaning there's no way to win a battle against them. Diplomacy is just awful and world map regions work terribly, since annexing territories is a net negative to your cash flow. Don't waste your time with this game.

I do very much like this game, and was not able to put it down for quite awhile. If you've played the Anno series or games like Farthest Frontier, etc. it is very similar and fits right in to that genre. The early 20th century does not get enough love in strategy games or sims, and the logistics and supply chains in this game feel very nice and orderly. It is easy to overextend yourself, but if you stay focused, keep your eyes on your numbers and think long-term, it's actually exceedingly easy to become quite powerful quickly. That being said, I do have a few minor complaints that get in the way of this being a perfect game for me. It's a little weird that the bulk of decorative buildings/pieces like gardens/parks etc. are locked until much much later in the game, but that's not the end of the world. My main gripe is the combat--you spend all this time building your supply chains and amassing technology, getting really neat military stuff, only for all the battles to take place on the world map in a flat and stale looking spectacle. I guess technically it's real time battles, but it feels more like turn-based, and it is quite zoomed out. It's a shame because there are really cool units, all of which have very neat models... Seeing a zeppelin you built actually hovering over your city, or tanks rolling down your roadways would be a chef kiss. But alas, this is not something you'll see. This part of the game feels more like looking at more number charts. There are also no buildable defensive buildings that you can place within your city, which is too bad. Would be cool if you could put WW1 style trench works, bunkers, or AA gun nests on the actual city made. Again I find it weird that you can't because all this stuff has been fully 3d modeled. Just seems like a missed opportunity. Overall through, a great game, if not perfect. 7.7/10.

has potential, but unfortunately quite buggy got to the end, but couldnt unlock the last tier of the military line despite having more than double the required points- making military combat.. useless.. it is already weighted in combat toward higher teir units and then the computer appears to get a bonus to the extent of something like double(opponent has the last tier of planes, full squadron in last territory, but you cant push without your own and it can one shot all ground units)- also was getting constant riots at the end despite having 90+ morale and the prerequisite buildings designed to prevent that also trades with other empires "being cancelled by me" without input, constantly, which annoys the AI as youre going back on your deals you can also offer cash for a trade against their items, then hit negotiate and it will basically give you their items for what you offered minus the cash, so basically can trade for free agains the AI if you wanted to also something buggy with the game itself, it basically lagged out at one point- despite only using about 20% of my cpu and gpu

This game is pure strategy gold idea — deep, gritty, and insanely addictive. Most choices hits hard, and expanding your empire feels incredibly satisfying. Spend hours building up your logistics and production in silence, then suddenly let your armies speak loudly! Great fun!‍

Kaiserpunk is a city building game with a focus on strategic warfare. The city building aspect is fine, I've played a lot of them and what Kaiserpunk does in its implementation is fairly well done, with citizen tiers and needs you'll need to balance well what and where you'll produce the resources and keep an eye out for the well being of your citizens. Unfortunately the world-conquering part is really bad. You can only manage a small number of different units on the world map and creating new ones (or refitting old ones to the new technology) takes an excruciatingly long time. The combat works conceptually like a rock paper scissors game, with different attacts type that can contrast different armour type (and some sinergy between units) and you'll get the hang of it pretty soon. What I can't understand is how the whole defense system works. I'm fine with simplified combat (though for a city builder game this could have been the part where it stands out if well done) but I'm not fine with defensive strictures that can only be damaged by one unit type. During my playthroughs my momentum stopped pretty quickly when my troops had to attack a region with only air defenses, basically making me attack a lot of times with my troops an otherwise empty region to damage them because I had no air support. This mechanic makes no sense to me, when a region is not guarded it should be pretty easy to take out air defenses.

Score: 8.0/10. Kaiserpunk honestly surprised me. At first I expected a pretty standard city-builder, but after a few hours I realized there's a lot more going on. Managing your city is fun on its own, but the way industry, logistics, research, and world politics all connect makes most decisions feel important. Watching a small settlement grow into a massive industrial powerhouse is incredibly satisfying, especially when your production chains finally start running smoothly (not easy to achieve). The alternate-history setting gives the game a unique identity, and the visual style does a great job of capturing that gritty industrial atmosphere. The game still has some rough edges, and there are definitely areas that could use more polish and quality-of-life improvements. A few systems could be explained better, and late-game management can become a bit overwhelming. Still, the core gameplay loop is strong enough that I kept saying "just one more thing" before ending a session. Overall, Kaiserpunk is one of the most interesting city-building and strategy games I've played recently, at least idea-wise. If you're into building complex economies, optimizing supply chains, and watching your decisions shape an entire nation, it's absolutely worth checking out. 8.0/10 – a really promising strategy game with a great foundation and a lot of potential ahead. I'm cheering for the devs to grab the potential‍

Finally, after going bankrupt several times I figured out my finances. Great game, great graphics. I would say yes to anyone who wants to buy this game. take your time to learn the basics. This is my first post, as I progress in the game, I will post more. Enjoy it, like I do!

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What I love most is how the game ties military strength directly to production. It’s not just about building tanks or units—it’s about understanding the entire backbone behind them. That connection between industry and warfare makes every expansion feel meaningful, like you’re slowly building the war machine piece by piece. You can recognize this approach even visually: if you choose to go all-out in military conquest, your local map will eventually be endless stream of mining facilities, factories,heavy industries… all churning out countless tanks, airplanes and artillery shells that will be lost within weeks after reaching the frontline. I personally LOVE this depiction of world war, feels brutal and accurate.‍