Early access to the city builder Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Update 11 adds several important new features to an already obsessively detailed game. The Soviet city builder has tram lines and underground metro systems that you can build in your city, customizable state borders, new map editor tools, and a realistic mode for players who really think carefully about their logistics systems.
Trams use lightweight street rails to move passengers between stops in your city—pretty simple, at least on paper. They now have their own dedicated roads and termini, as well as stops on new lines that can be built. Players can also build underground rails and subway stations and adjust the depth of tunnels using the Q and E keys.
Naturally, since this is Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, you can really get into the details and work out specific schedules and passenger permits for every train and subway you operate.
Update 11 also adds a new realistic borders feature, which for the first time allows you to edit republic borders and create non-square shapes. Combined with the new water erosion tool in the map editor, you can achieve some pretty convincing results. As a demonstration of the capabilities of the new tools, the developers have included a sample map of Slovakia.
Also in the map editor in update 11, a new Water Erosion tool has been added, which adds natural weathering effects to the area.
As you'd expect, the new Realistic mode makes everything more realistic. In the game this manifests itself in the fact that you will have to move everything you buy outside of your country from the border to the place where you want to use it. In other words, you can't just open an object, buy new equipment or a vehicle for it, and it will appear like magic - it all has to get there somehow, and now you have to do it yourself.
Realistic mode also disables the ability to auto-complete a building by throwing money at it.
Earlier this year, Slovak developer 3Division released a charity DLC to raise money to help people affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the package raised $28 in two months.
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