Elda Leisure and Overseer Video games introduced that Kaiserpunk, a grand metropolis constructing and world conquest sport, is marching towards a launch on March 21.
Elda Leisure is a brand-new writer with a imaginative and prescient to ship the very best 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 out there 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 thus far. This was our first announcement along with Overseer Video games to the general public. We’re working with fairly a couple of indie builders which are working dwell video games,” Neudinger stated.
She Elda operates in another 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 up to now 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 verify 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 information and expertise is strictly what we wanted. It’s been a blast already and we sit up for working with them for years to come back,” stated Danijel Mihokovic, lead designer on Kaiserpunk and co-founder of Overseer Video games.
“For us, Kaiserpunk is the right first step, we’re not right here to publish simply any sport—we’re right here to champion a few of the finest administration video games, making certain they attain their full potential,” stated Sandra Neudinger, CEO and Founding father of Elda Leisure. “Kaiserpunk embodies every part we love in regards to the style: deep mechanics, creativity, and a world that reacts to the participant’s choices—letting them form historical past in their very own means. We couldn’t have requested for a greater title and developer to launch with.”
Elda Leisure was based with the objective of prioritizing the distinctive wants of administration sport 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 thus far. This was our first announcement along with Overseer Video games to the general public. We’re working with fairly a couple of indie builders which are working dwell video games,” Neudinger stated.
She Elda operates in another 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 up to now 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 verify 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, answerable for notable titles such because the Cities: Skylines franchise and Surviving Mars, and with a mixed experience of over 40 years working within the business, Elda is prime to make sure administration video games thrive in a aggressive market.
Kaiserpunk essential options:
Grand Metropolis Constructing in an Various Twentieth Century: Form your metropolis from the bottom up. Construct housing, arrange logistics, set up business, present public companies and join your metropolis. Maintain the morale of your residents excessive, unlock new expertise and buildings as your Twentieth-century metropolis rises to greatness.
Warfare on a World Scale: As your city-state rises from the ashes of the Nice Battle, you’ll encounter different rising city-states, every vying for energy. Will you forge alliances by commerce and diplomacy, or seize dominance by open battle together with your rivals?
Be a Captain of Trade: From bushes to newspapers and ore to bullets, your metropolis’s industries should run effectively—and it’s as much as you to make it occur. Advantageous-tune your economic system, commerce, and handle interconnected manufacturing chains that scale effortlessly to fulfill the calls for of your rising empire.
Form Your Metropolis, Forge Your Empire: As your metropolis expands, so does your empire’s identification —formed by the alternatives you make. Your choices carry weight throughout time; from industrial priorities to political choices, 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 sport growth crew primarily based in Zagreb, Croatia, based in 2006 by 4 business veterans with over 20+ years of expertise every. Initially working below the identify Little Inexperienced Males Video games, the crew 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 have been extra survival-sensitive, this sport is about micromanaging your manufacturing and because it strikes from the early Twentieth century to mass manufacturing. You must see what you’ll be able to accomplish with diplomacy however be ready to go to struggle.
“We principally created the world the place World Battle I merely by no means ended,” stated Danijel Mihokovic. “We’ve this formidable scope and a imaginative and prescient for video games which you can play for hundreds 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 similar to Patron (2021) and Aquatico (2023), each of which achieved prime 10 and 20 Steam rankings of their respective month, with Kaiserpunk at present in manufacturing for a deliberate 2025 launch. Overseer Video games maintains a core crew of 11 staff, together with the unique co‑house owners (three of them being brothers), and commonly 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 business professionals with a mixed experience of over 40 years working within the business, Elda is prime to make sure administration video games thrive in a aggressive market.
“We really feel that builders personal the artistic imaginative and prescient of the sport, and they’re those creating this,” Neudinger stated.
