I played Realpolitiks 1 and its addon a lot. I have several hundred hours on my counter... so I eagerly looked forward to Part 2. Sadly it seems like the Developer has dropped the ball on this game, development is very very slow or stopped. People are asking in the steam discussion section already if the game is dead. If I would have seen this earlier I would not have bought the game. So whats in the game right now? 3 Scenarios... 2 are similiar where you have the world in 2020 before Covid or 2021 with Covid... the third scenario sounded interesting its basically a wasteland USA scenario after a WW3 with nukes. Sadly that third scenario is so poor done, for example you cant do ANY research, you just build warriors and hope to have more than other factions have and steamroll them... thats it, no big strategy involved as you cant do that much else. Better get Hearts of Iron 4 and play the Fallout Mod, for any Grand Strategy Wasteland itch you might have its a much better choice. Also institutions like the EU or NATO or CSTO are completly missing (I am talking about the 2020 and 2021 Scenarios here of course)... so the big nations can steamroll a lot before their warmonger score goes high enough before other nations would get their ass up and do something (if at all). By leaving out core Institutions of our real world, this game is even more unrealistic and sadly also dull as already big nations will steamroll all the time. There are quite some games out there that simulate the modern world better and you can do more as a player to influence that world in those games (which makes them more interesting). Take for example Hearts of Iron 4 with the Modern Day mod... you can do a lot more in that mod, than in this whole game. Or even take older Titles like all of the Supreme Ruler games, they are more interesting because you can do more interesting stuff. There is more wrong with the game, but I am reaching the lenght-limit of the review.
