I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with Kaiserpunk. The name alone doesn’t really give you a clear idea of what it’s about, and I can’t help but feel like some people just put the word “punk” on the end of anything to make it sound cooler. But thankfully, my foray into the 4X genre had primed me to dive straight into the world of Kaiserpunk, and I was pretty pleased with the excursion.
If anything, I’d argue that Kaiserpunk is a little less than punk since it doesn’t really circumvent the rules of the 4X genre, but it does possess enough of its own individual identity to stand out amongst other well-known entries. It manages to create an experience that balances strategy with a certain level of creativity that can get pretty engaging.
Like many of these types of games, Kaiserpunk doesn’t have a narrative per se, but it does have something of a story to form the underlying basis for the gameplay. Players take on the role of a former Military commander in the early 1900s,... Read more