Elda Leisure and Overseer Video games introduced that Kaiserpunk, a grand metropolis constructing and world conquest recreation, is marching towards a launch on March 21.
Elda Leisure is a model new writer with a imaginative and prescient to ship the most effective administration video games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Video games on the mission.
Mixing production-focused metropolis constructing with the world conquest of technique video games, Kaiserpunk can be accessible on Steam for $30. Elda Leisure is co-publishing the sport alongside Overseer Video games.
I interviewed Mario and Danijel Mihokovic about their enterprise, which began in 2006, in addition to Sandra Neudinger, CEO of Elda Leisure, which began in 2023.
“We’ve been working primarily behind the scenes to this point. This was our first announcement along with Overseer Video games to the general public. We’re working with fairly a number of indie builders which might be operating reside video games,” Neudinger stated.
She Elda operates in a different way from different publishers. They do white label publishing and conventional publishing. Neudinger described Overseer’s Kaiserpunk as a “excellent match that fits our portfolio.”
Danijel Mihokovic, lead designer, stated the corporate has bootstrapped itself thus far and is now able to ally itself with Elda to get the sport out the door. The corporate thought of early entry however discovered it was making good progress.
“We had to ensure we had a small quantity devoted to exterior advertising and marketing spend,” stated Danijel Mihokovic. “Elda understood the sport from the very first time we confirmed it. I used to be actually impressed. I actually do really feel the identical. It’s a ardour for me.”
Set in an alternate Interbellum Period (1918-1945), Kaiserpunk challenges gamers to construct their very own city-state, gas industrial enlargement, and wage strategic warfare throughout land, sea, and air to forge an empire. With deep manufacturing chains, grand-scale metropolis constructing, and international conquest at its core, Kaiserpunk blurs the traces between metropolis administration and international warfare.
“We dipped our toes in metropolis builder waters with our earlier video games, and Kaiserpunk is our subsequent massive step, combining metropolis constructing, administration, technique and an enormous, open world able to be conquered. It’s been daunting and superior in equal measure, very similar to our collaboration with Elda, whose data and expertise is strictly what we would have liked. It’s been a blast already and we stay up for working with them for years to return,” stated Danijel Mihokovic, lead designer on Kaiserpunk and co-founder of Overseer Video games.
“For us, Kaiserpunk is the proper first step, we’re not right here to publish simply any recreation—we’re right here to champion a few of the finest administration video games, guaranteeing they attain their full potential,” stated Sandra Neudinger, CEO and Founding father of Elda Leisure. “Kaiserpunk embodies every little thing we love in regards to the style: deep mechanics, creativity, and a world that reacts to the participant’s selections—letting them form historical past in their very own method. We couldn’t have requested for a greater title and developer to launch with.”
Elda Leisure was based with the aim of prioritizing the distinctive wants of administration recreation builders and their communities, providing a bespoke publishing method that mixes experience, flexibility, community-building, and a long-term imaginative and prescient for the video games and their companions.
I interviewed Mario and Danijel Mihokovic about their enterprise, which began in 2006, in addition to Sandra Neudinger, CEO of Elda Leisure, which began in 2023.
“We’ve been working primarily behind the scenes to this point. This was our first announcement along with Overseer Video games to the general public. We’re working with fairly a number of indie builders which might be operating reside video games,” Neudinger stated.
She Elda operates in a different way from different publishers. They do white label publishing and conventional publishing. Neudinger described Overseer’s Kaiserpunk as a “excellent match that fits our portfolio.”
Danijel Mihokovic, lead designer, stated the corporate has bootstrapped itself thus far and is now able to ally itself with Elda to get the sport out the door. The corporate thought of early entry however discovered it was making good progress.
“We had to ensure we had a small quantity devoted to exterior advertising and marketing spend,” stated Danijel Mihokovic. “Elda understood the sport from the very first time we confirmed it. I used to be actually impressed. I actually do really feel the identical. It’s a ardour for me.”
Based by leaders of Paradox Interactive’s administration video games phase, chargeable for notable titles such because the Cities: Skylines franchise and Surviving Mars, and with a mixed experience of over 40 years working within the trade, Elda is prime to make sure administration video games thrive in a aggressive market.
Kaiserpunk essential options:
Grand Metropolis Constructing in an Different Twentieth Century: Form your metropolis from the bottom up. Construct housing, arrange logistics, set up trade, present public providers and join your metropolis. Preserve the morale of your residents excessive, unlock new expertise and buildings as your Twentieth-century metropolis rises to greatness.
Warfare on a International Scale: As your city-state rises from the ashes of the Nice Struggle, you’ll encounter different rising city-states, every vying for energy. Will you forge alliances via commerce and diplomacy, or seize dominance via open battle together with your rivals?
Be a Captain of Trade: From timber to newspapers and ore to bullets, your metropolis’s industries should run effectively—and it’s as much as you to make it occur. Fantastic-tune your economic system, commerce, and handle interconnected manufacturing chains that scale effortlessly to satisfy the calls for of your rising empire.
Form Your Metropolis, Forge Your Empire: As your metropolis expands, so does your empire’s id —formed by the alternatives you make. Your selections carry weight throughout time; from industrial priorities to political selections, each facet of your management influences the world round you. Construct a capital that displays your imaginative and prescient and steers your empire’s future.
Kaiserpunk launches on March 21, 2025.
Overseer Video games is a small, however agile recreation improvement staff based mostly in Zagreb, Croatia, based in 2006 by 4 trade veterans with over 20+ years of expertise every. Initially working below the identify Little Inexperienced Males Video games, the staff specialised in sci‑fi house simulations, most notably the premium Starpoint Gemini sequence for Home windows PC and Xbox—comprising 4 video games, 12 DLCs, and over 2.5 million downloads.
Whereas Overseer’s earlier two video games had been extra survival-sensitive, this recreation is about micromanaging your manufacturing and because it strikes from the early Twentieth century to mass manufacturing. It’s a must to see what you possibly can accomplish with diplomacy however be ready to go to warfare.
“We principally created the world the place World Struggle I merely by no means ended,” stated Danijel Mihokovic. “We’ve got this bold scope and a imaginative and prescient for video games you can play for 1000’s of hours.”
Following the success of the Starpoint franchise, the corporate rebranded as Overseer Video games and shifted its focus to the city-builder style, launching titles corresponding to Patron (2021) and Aquatico (2023), each of which achieved high 10 and 20 Steam rankings of their respective month, with Kaiserpunk at the moment in manufacturing for a deliberate 2025 launch. Overseer Video games maintains a core staff of 11 staff, together with the unique co‑homeowners (three of them being brothers), and frequently collaborates with a versatile community of freelancers and third‑occasion companions to ship progressive gaming experiences.
Elda Leisure is a writer laser-focused on bringing best-in-class administration video games to the market. Based by skilled trade professionals with a mixed experience of over 40 years working within the trade, Elda is prime to make sure administration video games thrive in a aggressive market.
“We really feel that builders personal the inventive imaginative and prescient of the sport and they’re those creating this,” Neudinger stated.
