Supreme Ruler Ultimate

« I like this title quite a lot. I've sunk in a pretty hefty number of hours, and I can see myself sinking in more. »

« Very nice game! SRU and HOI4 are pretty different games. But this game is on level that ¨Hearts of Iron IV doesn't even have. micro-control and all that details.. Gonna say this is very interesting game. It's also being updated by developers . They also release some patches and fixes that solve bugs. »

« I gave this a 10/10 because the game creator is still updating the game and coming out with bug fixes 5+years after the initial release. It's not as pretty as Hearts of Iron IV but Supreme Ruler Ultimate has way more game play value and the tech tree advances into the future realistically. A fun game for history buffs and anyone who wants to live their fantasy of alternate history. A fun sandbox scenario to play is **** World 2020 were the USA has split into 50 countries and most nations of Europe and Asia have also split into smaller countries. The developer has released a map editor and made it easier to mod their game. »

« SUPERIOR REAL-TIME STRATEGY/TACTICS OVERALL RATING- AAA++ 9.5/10.0 Pros - Great attention to detail -Accurate geographical information -Technology is to date -Unlimited play time Cons -Graphics are out of date -Could use some more DLC expansions »

« I love SR but it's not a strategy game but a World SIM. When you look at it this way, it's pretty good at doing what it supposed to. Army management is too complex to be bothered with it manually, so you end up setting it to automate. While manually controlling few small army groups. You can control your AI with hotspots and policies. Army management is too complex to manage it manually when you play with a big and rich country, game screams for some battlegroups system or army system like in HOI, but with keeping the AI aspect in place. The game fails at one thing, POPULATION. No matter how you play no matter if you spoil your citizens with **** loads of goodies, low prices, low taxes still it won't affect population and migration enough to make any significant difference in a long run in the game. Thus there is no chance to overtake USA, RUSSIA, UK, FRANCE, JAPAN, CHINA with a country like TURKEY or UKRAINE, simply because of the population issue. Even if you cheat the **** out of your game. It’s really disappointing as the game lets you play only within predetermined historical frame and this ends up you realizing you don’t really have much control and you just replay the history with small alterations. Say you try to defend Poland when Germany attacks it, or do the same with Czechoslovakia, it’s literally almost impossible to achieve, especially at higher difficulty levels. What I liked in other games of that type is that you could alter the history the way you wanted. In SR a lot of it is sort of predetermined and you have no say over how the future plays out. Realistic maybe, but definitely not fun. As everything is automated it gets a little boring in a long run. Diplomacy is dull even thou its based on a good concept. There is no role-play so not a lot of random events or influence groups and nothing really driving behind the conquest. Borders change very randomly upon conquest and colonization and there is no way to affect them by yourself which is again disappointing. It's overall fun for a while but falls short in a long run, as in the end there is nothing to do in the game, and most things are predetermined by the starting population levels. I spend over two hundred hours in the game, yet most of the time it was AI playing not me. I just watch the dots progress and make adjustments to policies every few hours. At the top of that the game works like sh..... in the late game on x64 bit systems it utilizes only 1 CORE and two threads on multi-core CPUs x64system and that slows the game down a lot when you operate a large army. »

« Since there was only 1 review I felt I should add my input into this wonderful game since I've been playing the franchise since SR2010 and this is obviously the crown jewel of the franchise combining all the previous games into one neat tidy package. It contains all 3 scenarios, Modern World (with an alternate reality with most of the powerful states broken up as an option) World War 2, and Cold War... You can play a Grand Campaign starting in WW2 and take your nation all the way to the end of the game trying to manage procuring natural resources, power projection, useful diplomatic relations and alliances, and of course your eyes on the next little gem that you'd like to add to your growing empire. There is almost no background dialogue outside of the campaigns and the tutorial which give u basic suggestions and guidelines to succeed at the current scenario but thats the beauty of the game. You can imagine and invent what ever back behind the scenes kinda diplomatic situation that lead to America invading Mexico in 1938 as a response to the trade-war and to secure the oil rich areas south of the rio grande or hypothesize that **** and Stalin signed the Unholy Alliance and decided to split the Eastern and Western Hemispheres evenly etc etc.. The true challenge of this game is knowing in combat what to let the computer handle and what you need to painstakingly control yourself while spending within your budgets and inventing new ways to create income and allow yourself to build the economy and improve your technological research to get the upper hand on others. Sure, you'll play as Germany and steamroll through Europe with ease (I usually like to let Italy and France go at it for a few years then just take both haha) but if you overextend and incorporate too many low income areas and push your economy too hard with the military-industrial complex then youll find yourself in a crippling economic depression and debt and realize in conquering the world you destroyed your empire and have to start all over again. Endless fun, endless playthrus, can take any nation and do whatever u like and complete all around the best sandbox grand strategy game on the market! Must buy for fans of Hearts of Iron/ Europa Universalis etc »

« This game has given me nearly one hundred hours of great playing time! This game has some flaws but nothing that can't be fixed. Definitely worth the money. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes a realistic, fun, conquest game. »