Kaiserpunk News

We're thrilled today to open the very first Kaiserpunk Playtest! New game version will be available from today until Monday, July 22nd, and main goal is to gather new feedback from all sorts of players. Playtest game version is not the same as previously available demo, but it still a quite incomplete game version, so please keep that in mind - there will be bugs and errors as well as missing content.

To get the option to participate in this free Playtest, you'll need to first "Request access" on game store page. We're gathering interested people for a few days already, but will likely continue to grant access after Playtest already starts, at least during first day. So don't worry, if you're hearing this now for the first time, you're still not late!

Allow us a moment to explain the purpose of this Playtest: During initial demo availability we've encountered some hardware problems (too high drain on video memory and low frame on some machines). That prevented a number of players to try out the demo as they intended. We'd like to apologize once again for that, but we did take all reports very seriously. A few weeks have been dedicated fully to first optimization rounds primarily. During internal tests in recent days we've measured significant performance improvements, as well as drop off in video memory requirements. That means game should load up normally to many additional players that experienced memory peak and freeze moments before, and should overall work smoother.



During this work, a few more areas were found where more sizeable performance gains can be reached, so we'll absolutely pursue it too. But at the moment, we'd like to double check what were the results so far before we continue.

On the content side, Playtest version introduces second (out of several more) geographical biome - ARID and couple of new maps. In final game, these various biomes will cover different parts of the world, depending on what region you select to start your game in. In total you'll be able to play through several maps and two different biomes, but at the moment tutorial features are enabled only on map designated as "tutorial". This means that maps other the tutorial one will currently function as full sandbox. All currently available game features will work, as well as salvageable scenery, but you should already be familiar with how game mechanics work (basic hints will still be there). You can always try out tutorial map first, then switch to some of the other ones. Eventually, plan is to have tutorial linked to any available ingame map (but will have an option tu be turned off).

Playtest version has the same time limit set at 4 hours in a single session while number of different sessions isn't restricted.





Hopefully, you can enjoy the current game version, and you can provide us with your feedback once you're done. We'd be very grateful for every single piece of information you wish to provide us, because that will be the backbone of adjusting further development until game is completed.

You can share your opinions, suggestions, throw bugs at us or send helpful files for resolving technical issues. Everything helps and we'll do our best to listen and include what you say in further planning.

Depending on your preference, you can forward your feedback on any of these channels:


STEAM: directly on community forums
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/QYfASavwuK

X: https://x.com/Overseer_Games

REDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserpunk/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556840395234


If you have some files you'd like to send us, mail and instructions are here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2012190/discussions/1/4334231305372712363/


That's it from us, this has been too long announcement already. Have fun in building your city and good luck in your conquests!




P.S. be careful in anticipating local problems in your city, there are a few possible surprises...

Following overwhelming amounts of feedback during Next Fest a few weeks ago, we've now resumed regular activities on development front. Some of the issues most loudly raised on Next Fest were centered around specific hardware requirement. Our analysis confirmed this and few major changes were done in past weeks. Video memory draw was way to high in some instances, and that unfortunately prevented a good portion of players from even trying the game. We're now in the process of correcting this. Hopefully much more players will now get the chance to properly test out what's coming.



In any case, we plan to reopen access to Playtest version from July 20th through to July 22nd.
Main changes are optimization and hardware requirements that should allow much more people to test the game, plus there will be some ingame content additions and gameplay fixes. After this Playtest we'll again re-evaluate the results, see what improvements were done, as well as determine what else needs to be done before we continue pouring in the pure content (there are a lot of it currently missing from game build).

Please check out the Steam store page and hit the "Request access" button if you want to apply for this Playtest. We'll enable manual entrance to Playtest from July 20th.

Greetings Governors!

After a wild week of Next fest (at least for us), it's time to share some conclusions. First of all, we'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who wishlisted Kaiserpunk. You pushed our game over 100.000 wishlists at the moment, and that is an amazing moment for all of us. But that vote of confidence also means it's on us now to deliver, and that is exactly the plan!

Another awesome thing is that Kaiserpunk was among the most played demos during Next fest! We're positive that means most of you like the hybrid concept we're working on and most of you feel there is good potential here. Our job is to craft that potential into a fun and memorable experience.



This Next fest was our first opportunity to present the game and get genuine reactions to the concept and the current alpha game itself. We were excited and scared at the same time, but looks like many of you would like to play something like this. The road we have ahead is a steep one, but on our end, challenge accepted!

We're especially thankful to everyone who played and sent their feedback, either on Steam community forums, Discord or in any other way. This alpha is not perfect, not by a long shot. Apologies to everyone who couldn't properly playtest Kaiserpunk due to technical issues or bugs. We're sorry you didn't get the proper chance this time.

Regarding feedback and the first impressions themselves: YOU'RE BEING HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR! Every bug is noted, every suggestion written down. We've pushed 5 updates to the demo during Next Fest and we tried to mend everything possible as quickly as possible, in order to allow as many as possible of you to play. Unfortunately we couldn't get to everything in time (or the fix itself needed more extensive interventions), but we will address everything you've raised as issues.

At this time, hardware requirements and optimization looks to be the culprit that prevented many of you to properly test the game. We are fully aware of that and for that reason, this is put to the highest priority. We already started several parallel steps to reduce hardware demands and expand the amount of configurations where the game will run nicely.

The next step is to iron out all the bugs and weird gameplay details you've reported. Every single log you've provided us will be hugely helpful here.

Lastly, we'll continue to work on the remaining content that needs to be added (and there is a fair amount of that as you've probably noticed). Important to note here is that this plan will now, as a result of your feedback, be amended and expanded. You told us what you'd like to see in the game, which parts you find great and which should be improved. All of that will be on the table now, and whatever matches the concept of the game, can help the game and/or is feasible for us to create, will be discussed seriously.

Once again a big thanks to everyone participating in first live playsessions of Kaiserpunk. Every minute you've spent in it will help us create an experience you'll hopefully be happy to try again and again as it matures.

Overseer Games

After a wild week of Next fest (at least for us), it's time to share some conclusions. First of all, we'd like to say a big THANK YOU for everyone that wishlisted Kaiserpunk. You pushed our game over 100.000 wishlists at the moment, and that is an amazing moment for all of us. But that vote of confidence also means it's on us now to deliver, and that is exactly the plan!

Another awesome thing is that Kaiserpunk was among most played demos during Next fest! We're positive that means most of you like the hybrid concept we're working on and most of you feel there is good potential here. Our job is to craft that potential into fun and memorable experience.



This Next fest was our first opportunity to present the game and get genuine reactions to concept and current alpha game itself. We were excited and scared at the same time, but looks like many of you would like to play something like this. Road we have ahead is a steep one, but on our end challenge accepted!

We're specially thankful to everyone that played and send their feedback, either on Steam community foums, Discord or any other way. This alpha is not perfect, not by a long shot. Apologies to everyone that couldn't properly playtest Kaiserpunk due to technical issues or bugs. We're sorry you didn't get the proper chance this time.

Regarding feedback and first impressions themselves: YOU'RE BEING HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR! Every bug is noted, every suggestion written down. We've pushed 5 updates to demo during Next Fest and we tried to mend everything possible at a short timeline, in order to allow as many of you to play as possible. Unfortunately we couldn't get to everything in time (or fix itself needed more extensive interventions), but we will address everything you've raised as issues.

At this time, hardware requirements and optimization looks to be the culprit that prevented many of you to properly test the game. We are fully aware of that and for that reason, this is put to the highest priority. We already started several parallel steps to reduce hardware demands and expand the amount of configurations where game will run nicely.

Next step is to iron out all the bugs and weird gameplay details you've reported. Every single log you've provided us will be hugely helpful here.

Lastly, we'll continue to work on remaining content that needs to be added (and there is fair amount of that as you've probably noticed). Important to note here is that this plan will now, as a result of your feedback, be amended and expanded. You told us what you'd like to see in the game, which parts you find great and which should be improved. All of that will be on the table now, and whatever matches concept of the game, can help the game and/or is feasible for us to create, will be discussed seriously.

Once again big thanks to everyone participating in first live playsessions of Kaiserpunk. Every minute you've spend in it will help us create an experience you'll hopefully be happy to try again and again as it matures.