Overseer Games, the developer by city-builder Patron and publisher of underwater city-builder Aquatico, is making a new game, also a city-builder. Kaiserpunk sees you build a city-state in an alternate 20th century world.
What makes Kaiserpunk more than just another city-builder is that it has grand strategy elements. You can conquer regions on a big map and interact with other key players on the global scen by forming alliances, trade deals or wage war against AI empires.
Back in the homefront, Kaiserpunk is a city-builder where production chains and logistics are important, as a particular resource can be further refined and be used for multiple products to serve the needs and wants of the different social classes that makes up the population of your city-state.
It’s a bit like Anno 1800 but instead of an RTS element on the side, you get the ability to commit bordergore on a map screen ala Hearts Of Iron 4.
Kaiserpunk was recently delayed to February 2025, as the independent team of 10 developers needed more time to get the game right. The team decided to not release this as an Early Access title, saying “we felt that it wouldn’t do justice to the full vision of Kaiserpunk.”
Over 130,000 players have placed Kaiserpunk in their wishlist, showing strong demand for this game. As they do- city-builders are immensely popular these days, look at the amount of attention Manor Lords gotten earlier this year.
The game had a limited-time demo as part of Steam Next Fest back in June and also held playtests in July.
In the meantime, the developers will be releasing a regular dev diary series to explain the gameplay of Kaiserpunk, starting off with this post on how morale and unemployment works (which also explains the four social classes of citizens).
Kaiserpunk is now set to release on February 27 on PC (Steam).