In Cities Skylines 2, you start with a promising new world - a lush, empty peninsula where everything is possible. In Frostpunk 2, it's the opposite. The environment has been destroyed and even the simplest resources are scarce. Kaiserpunk, an ambitious new strategy game that has finally just arrived on Steam, takes place somewhere in the middle. This is an alternative history where the end of WW1 has fractured the entirety of Europe into tiny, dysfunctional city states. You can still dream big and build even bigger, but the existential threat of being invaded and conquered looms large. Mixing grand strategy with detailed production-line creation, this one has promise.
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