how does this compare with cities skylines?

[Cornelius Edgerton]

better? worse? different?

[Silent_Shadow]

Depends on your tastes. Cities skylines is mostly a postcard painter with a decent traffic simulator, whereas this game is a logistics based, devils-in-the-details, city builder.

If you like making cool looking or pretty cities and don't care too much about the underlying systems, or can't be bothered with them, then Cities skylines is better.

If you like the challenge of managing and designing the systems that cities need to thrive, then W&R:SR is better overall, though there are a couple aspects that cities skylines does better.

[Oz]

You play normal mode ,its like kiddies game. You switch to full balls deep in aka Realistic mode and you will become a super chad, guaranty you will never look back at those "other" games.

[failsafe]

Cities Skylines is a city painter game. It is more focused on creating visually interesting cities than on anything else. Level of difficulty is relatively low - once the city is set and brings profits it will just keep working and growing.

Soviet Republic is more focused on creating very detailed chaines of supplies and production. While you can play on easy difficulty and play bit like a Cities Skylines it really shines in realistic mode where you have to do everything manually. For example: to build a road you need actual machines, like trucks that deliver sand, gravel and apshalt, then you need an asphalt layer and a roller. To connect you city to electric power grid you have to work on both high and low voltage, place substations ect. Same goes with water - you need to keep pressure in pipes and mind the height. You cant just transport water upwards - if situation needs this you need to build a pump station to make it happen. And so on, and so forth.

I've started this game on realistic mode and it took me like 30 hours to build my first small'ish town and actually bring first people to live there. It is way more immersive, but also way more difficult. If you are looking for a casual game than no, this is not for you. And I personally believe that this game on easy mode is just boring, so either aim on challenge or stay away.

[Titule]

Originally posted by Cornelia Edgerton:

better? worse? different?

all of it

[Grimnir]

Like others have said:
Cities Skylines is a game
Workers & Resources is a city building study simulator.

Be prepared to put in some hours if you want to get into this. It is not for everyone, but I find Workers & Resources immensly satisfying. There is nothing like gradually building up a functional soviet republic, to see the fruit of your labours.

Workers & Resounces is the city builder for MEN! It will make you strong, like bull!

I love it.

[DanieltheJew]

Cities Skylines is the only city builder game that I have outright lost. In fact, I have lost more often than I've 'won.' It's always been a preventable issue that could have been solved with a little foresight and each time I've lost, I've learned a little more. There are many settings, but with everything enabled it is a genuinely difficult game. It is hard to go back to other city builders after this one, because the simulations there are extremely forgiving. In this one there are many moving pieces that all must be managed and accounted for simultaneously, and failing to do so can quickly tank your economy and force you into a debt spiral.

It is the best city builder I've ever played, in spite of every bit of jank and frustration with the engine. It's all worth it because, knowing I can lose, I can finally win.

[🐺Blue Wolf]

Cities Skylines and CS2 are still my favourite games, but this game is honestly jumping right up there, especially playing realistic.

Tbh I feel this game is closer to a hybrid between Transport Fever and Factorio with some minor elements of CS added (imagine playing CS with only using the plopable mod to add buildings).

Economy 2.0 dropped today for CS2. I've been waiting a month for it, looking forward to jump back in with a new city...this game has been too interested and I can't stop playing it.

[Silent_Shadow]

I think you misspelled "Workers and Resoureces Soviet Republic."

[XGUNNARX]

i figured city skylines in about 30 minutes... well the basics.. i dont even know what im doing in this game yet.

[Starshine]

Wholly different genre, this is a simulation nuts and bolts, CS1 and W&R are my two favourite games but how to compare them?
This is more about the logistics and supply than the people, it's not taxes but exports and imports you're thinking about. Fish to duck

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by Oz:

You play normal mode ,its like kiddies game. You switch to full balls deep in aka Realistic mode and you will become a super chad, guaranty you will never look back at those "other" games.

you'll never .. look .. back ...

don't do it

you can't unsee what you see

if skylines is easy,
and w&r is hardcore,

then w&r realistic is dwarf-fortress-mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by 🐻 Veles:

Cities Skylines and CS2 are still my favourite games, but this game is honestly jumping right up there, especially playing realistic.

Tbh I feel this game is closer to a hybrid between Transport Fever and Factorio with some minor elements of CS added (imagine playing CS with only using the plopable mod to add buildings).

Economy 2.0 dropped today for CS2. I've been waiting a month for it, looking forward to jump back in with a new city...this game has been too interested and I can't stop playing it.

The main difference between this and factorio is the devs designed the modding community to appeal to the cs crowd as only buildings/vehicles aren't hardcoded and for that reason since you can't modify the gameplay, it doesn't play like factorio. in factorio over 90% of mods modify gameplay. here, I only know of one and that has to be manually installed, the devs intentionally didn't allow a category in steam workshop to account for non-buildings or non-vehicles and there's no big nexus page for this game. meaning it's impossible to find mods that modify gameplay.

i'd consider captain of industry to be closer to this game than transport fever or factorio. if you're just looking at the train feature in the 3 games, then 4 days ago captain of industry just announced trains are coming.

but if the devs cared about appealing to the factorio crowd, which I know is a ton of w&r players, i'd change my mind. until then, game is closer to captain of industry meets cities skylines.

EDIT:
transport fever is a poorly designed game, the devs literally prevent just anyone from getting an account to edit the wiki (to extend gameplay i guess) and they own the only wiki for the game and call it the manual, not a wiki. but that game does share a similarity with w&r in that only mods that change how the game looks are allowed.

what you find in games that only allow changing how a game looks to be allowed, that the players tend to focus more on how the game looks, not how it plays and i see that a lot in the discord. this you can see in nearly every transport fever player. where i enjoyed the campaign, over 90% of players never finished it or don't play it and instead play random maps. cities skylines for example, since the game allows changing looks and functionality i'd say is better than w&r for that reason alone and it also creates more diversity in the community where i could enjoy optimizing traffic and someone else could enjoy making it look pretty.

thinking about it now. you're right it is transport fever, but transport fever meets captain of industry. due to how modding is handled, this game is nothing like skylines

[John Moridin]

This game is a mixture of Cities Skylines, Transport Tycoon and... some other game I forget.

I like Cities Skylines because fixing traffic and building complex public transport system is fun. Traffic in this game is bad and public transport works in a nonsensical way.

The cool stuff in Workers and Resources is the more complex systems (e.g. electricity, waste, heating), a uniquely soviet union city design, big complicated industrial areas and in depth logistical networks.