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So, Comrade Planner, open the Steam Workshop. Subscribe to that Ikarus bus. Download the Brezhnev-era apartment pack. And remember:

But even the most hardened nomenklatura planner eventually looks at the vanilla assets and thinks: “Where are the Trabants? Why are the apartment blocks so generic? Where is the authentic Brezhnev-era gloom?”

In the crowded genre of city builders and economic simulators, one title stands apart not for its polish, but for its punishing ideology: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (often abbreviated as WRSR). Developed by the small Slovak studio 3Divison, this game is less a spiritual successor to SimCity and more a love child of Factorio , Transport Tycoon , and a Soviet Central Planning Committee. Set in a fictional post-WWII Eastern Bloc nation, the game challenges you to build a self-sufficient communist state from the ground up—without the crutch of money (in realistic mode), relying instead on raw resources, logistics, and conveyor belts.