Recent reviews by pcrackenhead

Really enjoy the town building, farming, and dynasty parts of the game. The hunting and fishing parts aren't my favorite, but the nice thing is that you're able to kind of ignore or automate away the parts you don't like to participate in.

Haven't experienced any bugs with it, gameplay has felt smooth and intuitive. If you like open world survival games, this will be down your alley.

The setting, visuals, and voices of this game are really compelling, but it kind of feels like a mess to play. Certain gameplay aspects seem to always be buggy, the game sometimes crashes on start, and it just felt frustrating to play.

I really wanted to like it, but it just didn't do it for me.

Game looks and sounds really pretty. Addictive gameplay, immense replay value. It's not for everyone, you have to be able to set your own goals and enjoy a sandbox style gameplay, and enjoy a historical setting.

If you like survival/city building games, this is pretty fun. A different take on the genre, but gameplay is still familiar enough.

Devs have been very active, releasing new features all the time, and even though it's early access, it has been amazingly stable.

If you want an in depth city building/resource management game, this is great. There's a ton of depth in the construction element specifically - providing resources to your construction zones, workers to construct the buildings, etc, gives it a different spin than lots of other city builders that focus on more macro stuff.

In the end the game focuses more on resources, supply chains, and transportation than city design. The railroad system is key to this game, and while the signaling system is really complex, it's very satisfying once you understand it.

The only downsides I've had is that sometimes smoothing terrain can be very frustrating, and sometimes the controls can feel not as intuitive. It's also in early access, so there are some buildings that just don't do anything yet, and they haven't coded allowing vehicles correctly, so sometimes traffic jams crop up in buildings and construction sites.

In the several months I've played the game, though, the devs have already expanded out several new features to it, especially on the test branch. So there's a lot to look forward to here.

If you're really into city builder/tycoon type games, or you really love the Soviet aesthetic, you'll probably really enjoy this game.