KAISERPUNK

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.

Some years ago I’ve been engaged with a small dev team. I know something about process behind video games creation, and from that angle I applaude to what was attempted with Kaiserpunk. Playing it as demo a year ago, then again now, I think accomplished work is amazing. IMO game now does about 70% of features right. Remaining 30% is either too clunky or just doesn’t seem to work properly (like diplomacy, enemy AI, lacking tutorial, boring tunnels through mountains). My biggest concern is the difficulty. Sometimes enemy factions can suddenly spike in power and become super aggressive. That forces me to spend a lot of time on global map making strategy decisions and relocating forces. While I do that, my city is neglected and my military production complicates. I feel like we should have some semi-automatic advisor in later stages of the game because the amount of management and decisions you have to make in industry management as well as on the field of battle is so intense. Don’t get me wrong, innovative gameplay in this game is worth it alone, but I’m a bit more critical because the potential is so high if some of these details are better tuned in the future‍

The combat is very lack lustre.

The tutorial is an utter mess. It fails to direct the player properly and is also buggy. If the tutorial is the bad then the main game can't be better.

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

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.

So many crashes. They really need to fix their game.

I’ve been on a fence about Kaiserpunk for a while. Is a matter in fact, I still am. Game is nice, very playable and fun to experiment with but has some issues like high complexity with inadequate tutorials and lower performance on laptops (at least mine). I’ll still proceed with positive review if nothing else because game is solid with a lot of further potential, and as long as updates come as they do, it can only be better from here.‍

I play alot of wargames and this is not one. Not even economic war. The war is with your workers minds: Give them their quota of happy and you can slowly add pieces to your city progressing thru linear unlocks. Enemy AI is nonexistent, trading dynamics are nonexistent, and ultimately; fun/challenge is non existent. The city builder portion is just a linear slog if production chains you do until you unlock military gear. Keep worker morale strong or you will die in a fire (morale death-spiral). Thats it, yep, builder joy is non-existent. TLDR: City Morale Simulator, with a static war screen that compares you vs enemy strength to grab incremental territories. How it plays;\ The recursive loop: 1: check morale before you add anything (fix by adding what they need). 2: add structure & add workers to man it 3: if you hadn't built enough troops/ships, build and return to 1. 4: Build troops/equipment/ships till you outnumber your neighbor territory: if you need ammo/troop food .... build/stock pile and return to 1. 5: if you have a significant ball of troops, steamroll your continent all at once. You win, congrats, that's it.. Thats it: -no terrain, just a cutscreen -no dynamic market, just token trade slots. no pricing sliders to dump any of the 6k of oil thats been sitting idle as storage is maxed. -war is worse than I programmed in elementary school; when I learned BASIC and did a simple Steve Jackson OGRE-like. -warscreen is just a screen plus static timer, calculation could be done in 0.1 second its that simplistic. no dynamic flow of battle, nothing moves not even BS text scrolling Zork style... no wild boars will appear... nothing... till screen pops saying you've won. -occasional random event that doesn't affect anything that I've noticed in 3 run thru's -your materials just keep stacking up as trade is miniscule and ineff3ctual. -If you build too fast (2 structures at once, omg) you risk morale death-spiral Sadly, this is the worst game I have played on Steam, ratings were wildly overly optimistic as otherwise I'd never have bought it.