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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 124.9 hrs on record (16.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 15 Mar, 2019 @ 11:53am
Updated: 1 Dec, 2020 @ 7:25am

Early Access Review
I can only recommend this one!

When first heard of it, I thought it was going to be a clone of Cities: Skylines with a commie theme slapped on it, but as it turns out, i was very wrong.
Where in CS you have 15 different kinds of streets which can build complex and highly efficient (or inefficient, in my case) road junctions, in Soviet Republic you have 3.
Where in CS you designate a region next to a road to be industrial, in W&R SR you individually place different factories in your world, connect them to your infrastructure using roads, railroads, pipelines or conveyors, plan efficient bus or train routes for your workers and individually decide on, purchase and assign vehicles which import/export/transport resources to and fro your factory.
Despite the current lack of a tutorial, the way the game is designed makes it easy to understand what you need to do once you figured out the UI; First, add a road, then residential blocks. But the people need food, so you build a grocery. But you don't want to import all the food, so you only import grain and produce the food locally, which requires complex infrastructure. But importing grain is costly still so you build a farm which produces grain and so on and so on...

This game is a perfect combination of the complex planned economy of Factorio and the careful city planning of Cities Skylines with a charming eastern european socialist flair. A must for any person with no regard for global warming and too much time on their hands!
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4 Comments
anubis 12 Apr, 2020 @ 3:37pm 
how does it compare to Tropico?
Czechoslovakia! 22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:46pm 
1st. Of all if it was a copy of CS With Communism it would still be really good
2nd. Of all MAY THE RED ARMY LIVE FOREVER LENIN LENIN LENIN
ds!! 22 Mar, 2019 @ 3:20pm 
Its far away from CSL. Only common element is - you built cities, Here eveything else ends.
black mesa security 21 Mar, 2019 @ 6:55pm 
asbestos and lack of food