Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $39.99.
- Length
- 68h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7770 (2 GB), 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 64 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Empires of the Undergrowth ($29.99, scores 75) and Norland ($29.99, scores 53), are both worse buys on this math.
81 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 798 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 1,422 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 68 hours. Doing everything runs 518, 7.6 times as long.
The drop-off
70% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3,080 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Please please add some proper middle-20th Soviet music-not just bombastic COMRADES songs! For example, "Mr. Trololo" and things like that-the internet is full of great examples of Soviet music!
Workers & Resources: after 50 hours i can say, Soviet Republic is the most complex economy sim on the market! If you find Cities: Skylines too easy and crave the logistical depth of Factorio, you will sink hundreds of hours into this. However, casual players will quickly quit due to the brutal realism. Verdict: A masterful, addictive project for true logistics enthusiasts that rewards patience with the deepest...
Played this game for some time back in 2023 without any issues. But for the past couple of years, the game has been systematically crashing every couple of minutes, making it completely unplayable. (Yes, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it multiple times.) I know this is a labor of love for its creators, but from a user's perspective and based on my personal experience, anyone who buys this risks ending up...
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Cite this score
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/784150/workers-resources-soviet-republicReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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