Duskpunk

Fun game, gave me a bit of Blades in the Dark meets Citizen Sleeper.

I LOVED this game. Tense, beautifully written, gorgeous art, compelling characters, excellent writing. Totally exceeded my expectations, a best-in-genre option for leftist games with on-the-nose content about authoritarianism.

If you speed through it like i did you can finish it in a 5 hour sitting. It ends with a trotsky quote. 10/10 would subscribe to their newspaper

I do not remember your name, however I found this game at a convention in Vienna 2 or 3 years ago. I played the unfinished build for hours until the code literally began unravelling because there was no hard end to the demo. During that time I chatted with the person running the stand about the politics of the game. I recently remembered this and bought the game the moment I had time. Having now played through the game once, I must say my biggest complaint is that the writing can get a bit hamfisted at times, but those who fear being hamfisted are afraid of one thing: having their beliefs be understood. Thank you for making this. I hope to see more from you, be that a continuation of how the Republic survives its first bit of life, or a new story about the same or a totally different thing. Best of luck in any and all future endeavours.

This was a welcome surprise. I am a fan of Citizen Sleeper and I'm glad that game has influenced more to be made. Now I would say overall its not as good as CS1-2 in terms of art, characters, and especially sound/music, but it's still very effective and while I would give those two 9/10, Duskpunk is a solid 7-8/10. I did end up growing to really like the characters and the factions they represent. I ended up being won over to the world of the story after feeling meh on it the first few hour but I would say it gets better as you play. As a communist(specifically Trotskyist - Viva RCA/RCI) I very much appreciated the revolution path. I would say ultimately the game is made for that outcome and anything else is just slight variety on another playthrough, the game ends with a Trotsky quote so I would imagine the dev agrees. Pros - The world, characters, story, art are all great and really looks great even despite early hesitation. Cons - Music is nonexistent, if the dev does anything with this game then even royalty free music could possibly help. The gameplay is a negative in so far as I don't think it holds up to CS despite the similarity in mechanics. Just something about it didn…

I loved the game, the setting and the story telling. An absolute hidden gem.