Punk Wars

 PC
Metascore
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  1. Softpedia
    Dec 16, 2021
    75
    Punk Wars offers a very classic take on the turn-based strategy space. The four corporations have personality and their own deranged charm but there’s not enough here to make the setting truly compelling. The tactical combat is solid but favors the defensive so much that battles never feel exciting, with too little space to execute complex plans. There’s pleasure in methodically moving forward, expanding the base slowly, putting more units in the field, chocking the adversary, gaining a tech edge that helps with the final assault. But the developers at Strategy Forge need to be a little more adventurous with their mechanics if they want to make Punk Wars an actually exciting game to play.

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

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  1. iseeall
    Mar 15, 2023
    5
    A simplistic steampunk / dieselpunk 4x game somewhat close to Civ 6 or Endless Legends.

    Good: - gfx, especially the UI art, are pretty    A simplistic steampunk / dieselpunk 4x game somewhat close to Civ 6 or Endless Legends.

    Good:
    - gfx, especially the UI art, are pretty good
    - music is generally good

    So-so:
    - the combat system isn't like in Civ games: when units attack something, the target won't retaliate. No bonuses from attacking from different sides etc. So it's a rather simple combat system, far simpler than in Civ games, with no defensive bonuses from tiles, no move cost multipliers on tiles etc.

    Bad:
    - to place new buildings, you need to produce a "Builder" unit first, which you then need to move to the desired location and convert into the building (the builder is consumed). That's too tedious.
    - the terrain is all done in shades of brown. It's very hard to tell what objects are on the tiles, so you have to click on each tile to get an info dialog slide from the left - that's too tedious as well. Guess what, steampunk units are brown, too!
    - the game is pretty resource intensive. Even on the lowest graphical settings I had very low FPS on my gaming laptop with GTX1050. I never had such lags with Civ 6 for example

    If you're a fan of steam- or dieselpunk, you may be willing to tolerate the brown-ish mess this game is. But anyone else, even a Civ fan has nothing to see here.    … Full Review »
  2. ekodiesel
    Nov 13, 2021
    10
    This 4X - strategy game is very good. Nice graphic and really interesting gameplay mechanics.
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