Fantastically immersive beer & pretzel wargame.

Gold is an ancient game from 2011. It's a whopping 13 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price to try profit from abandonware.

As usual for Slytherine (I really can't wait until JK Rowling sues them, I mean, come on), they've gotten some old abandonware strategy game and slapped a ridiculous price on it. If you're wondering what the quality of this game is like, I guess the best way to describe it is to look at Paradox. Paradox are the kings of turn based strategy, but they overprice their stuff like crazy, because they know their market is niche and demand is inelastic... but their products usually work. Slytherine, on the other hand, is Paradox from Aliexpress.

Panzer Corps Gold is no exception to that rule, either... there's some "okayness" to the game, it's one of their better ones, but that's really not saying much. Even when this was new it was never a top seller in the marketplace and now it's dated, seriously.

The game doesn't correctly account for modern PC displays, UI scaling isn't handled correctly. As a result of this unfortunate decision, text and UI elements don't display at a reasonable size, it's too small to be legible on most modern gaming PCs, and there's no in-game controls or options to correct this. This can render the game unplayable for many. IF they're going to charge ridiculous AAA pricing for 13 year old games, they have a duty and responsibility to maintain those games so they look and work right on the computers of the people they're selling the game to.

The technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Panzer Corps Gold is stupidly expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $30 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. For comparison, the $30 asking price for this game could get you games like "Wolfenstein - The New Order", "Grand Theft Auto V" or "Prey", or any number of older AAA games for that matter. HOI4 is cheaper, just saying. Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Great