Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall

База, 10 разорванных жеп за афган или Югославию из 10

The developers couldn't change the fact that the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed in real life, so they coded a miserable, gray spreadsheet where players can pretend that if they just banned rock music and rationed milk a little harder, the USSR would have conquered the world. It’ less of a political strategy game and more of a digital security blanket for guys who wish it was still 1985 in Moscow.- one may think after playing it. Positive side is that a small development indy team made a management game without own GUI management. However they achieved again a total historical Kremlin like accuracy, because playing Ostalgie perfectly mirrors living behind the Iron Curtain: it is stressful, bleak, visually depressing, and makes you want to escape to the West after twenty minutes. The user interface looks exactly like the control room of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4. It is a terrifying wall of gray buttons, flashing warning lights, and cryptic data columns that give you zero explanation Playing this game makes you realize exactly how a disaster happens under this kind of button layout. It just just doesnt explodes because of a bad test; but because of the exact systemic flaws Ostalgie forces you to play through. Ultimately, Ostalgie isnt a bad game - its a historically accurate simulation of a systemic panic attack. It shows you that when a government is entirely run via confusing, stress inducing spreadsheets and paranoia, only a matter of time before the core goes critical. Drifting a Wartburg on black ice with no winter tires, a broken steering rack, and a trunk full of stolen bricks is still a safer, more predictable, and infinitely more joyful experience in my oppinion. The strategy of the game is: as the leader of East Germany or Poland, you have no actual power. If you dont constantly kiss the boots of the Soviet leadership in Moscow and beg Gorbachev for rubles, your economy instantly implodes thats it. Have fu, set graphics to "good" 60FPS!