PRIVYET, COMRADES!!

Do you want to build glorious socialist republic for betterment of workers and advancement of great nation? Of course you do. Get in, comrade, we're restoring the Soviet Union.

This is easily my favorite city-builder game since SimCity 4. At first it seemed like a a SimCity clone with a fun twist in that it's communist instead of capitalist. You plop some residential builds, you plop some services, you plop an industrial building or two, then you set em to work and export your goods for great profit, since taxes and wages don't exist. But as challenges start to arise the depth of this game starts to become apparent. Power lines being overloaded, trucks running out of gas, roads filling with snow, people not getting to work because they're too stupid to figure out where to go, and of course a train system that stands amongst the best train builders in it's complexity.

And then you start to realize your little socialist utopia can be fully self sufficient. Instead of paying to plop your buildings you can make all the resources you need domestically. And instead of just magically appearing out of nowhere they have to be constructed with heavy equipment and of course, workers You can grow your own food and booze to supply your workers, hell you can make their clothes, radios, and CARS if you want! And that creates even new challenges, like setting up a construction hub, creating production chains for resources, managing the logistics of those resources, setting up a rail network that isn't just efficient from point A to Point B but that also ensures that every train can reach the fuel depots or that the train construction yard can reach each rail depot, or that the rail construction office can reach each rail line you want to construct. Yes you can lay your rail yourself! I've found fewer game experiences as satisfying as planning out an extensive railway and watching it be slowly built with resources from industries I've planned and built. If you're this kinda geek then you've gotta get this game.

At the moment it's early access but when I bought it almost a year ago it was already a full game. And the developers keep adding massive new systems that any other developer would just call a DLC and slap a $15 price tag on it. They're barely done with a massive content patch when they're previewing content for the next one that keeps me constantly excited to follow the games progress. Combine that with innovative systems and expanding on features inherent in the genre and WRSR feels like a throw back to the values of PC gaming in decades past.

I can't reccomend this game enough to anyone that likes city-builder games. Urá, comrades!