Kaiserpunk News

Today, for the first time ever, Steam is hosting „Games from Croatia“ event! Our country may be a small one, but some awesome games originated from here in recent years. For some of them you might already heard, but we're positive many of them are, as of yet, unknown to many of you or at least you might not be aware they are from Croatia.

Whatever the case, this croatian games event features a lot of games, covering multiple genres and styles. There is something for everyone, and majority of games are available with fantastically appealing high discounts. We invite you to browse around, get familiar with the work all studios have done, and perhaps you find something you want to try out!

There is also a special section of upcoming games featuring yet unreleased but promising titles that you can wishlist and follow!

Our past games are also available with hefty discounts, so we invite you to take up the opportunity and secure a lot of fresh gaming experience with little cost!

While you're awaiting for incoming news on Kaiserpunk, we can suggest you take a look at our previous medieval city builder Patron ːsteamhappyː

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1538570/Patron/

Prepare to reshape history. Kaiserpunk is charging into the Tiny Teams Steam festival from August 8th to 15th!

We’d like to thank the Tiny Teams for us, we’re thrilled to be a part of the event! This festival is all about showcasing smaller studios with massive ambitions in the games that they make, and that's exactly what we strive for at Overseer Games. Join us in celebrating the amazing indie games featured in this event.

You can go and check out Kaiserpunk, along with all of the other amazing games we are sharing the festival with over at https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TinyTeams2024.

After a full weekend of intense playtesting, first Kaiserpunk Playtest has now been closed.
Thousands of you requested access, and we received a ton of fantastic feedback. Fantastic in the sense of quality feedback, we don't mean everything with game was fantastic at this moment. But the purpose of Playtest was to identify what must be better. In that sense every sentence from you was immensly valuable.

We've already created lists of your reactions, from praises, to criticism, from bugs to suggestions on what can and should be improved. It will be integrated immediately with existing development plan and we're already certain it will result in a better game experience.



Big thanks to everyone participating. Thank you for the time devoted to game and thank you for sending us your honest thoughts and opinions. Future game versions will reflect many things you've said right now. Hopefully, you've also got a decent amount of fun, even from this incomplete version.

Our plan is to conduct more events of this type, so stay tuned ːsteamhappyː

One update was released during Playtest itself, and from what we gathered overall, we understand most of you feel there is much promise is this unique city builder/grand strategy hybrid. You also pointed out numerous technical bugs that need sorting out, as well as need for further performance gains. Happy to report planned optimizations go far beyond what was part of this Playtest, so it will be improved significantly. Many of you also suggested some specific improvements that could lift the game, so that was also a great read.

Once again, THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! Your time and effort will be rewarded with a ton of improvements!

To keep up with future news and playable versions, follow us and wishlist Kaiserpunk!

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...

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...