Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host for this week, Leona Hafer. And we are joined once again by our good friend of freelance writer John Bolding. How y'all doing today?

And we have a couple guests this week from the Well, There's Your Problem podcast. We welcome to the show for the first time, Alice Caldwell Kelly.

Hi.

And a voice you might remember from our city'slines episode way back, Justin Rosniak.

Howdy Doody.

And we are going to be talking about Workers and Resources Soviet Republic, which is a city building game that does not work much the same as other city building games you might be familiar with.

John, since I think you've played like six, 700 hours or something of this already,

why don't you walk us through?

What exactly is Workers and Resources Soviet Republic?

Workers and Resources Soviet Republic is if you have heard any of our year-end shows

I think for the last several years actually I talked about this game on all those it is a city

building game which has a lot to ground you has a lot in common with games like transport tycoon or

transport fever except it is it tasks you with building every building not only are you

building every building it is a command economy simulator in many ways so you are building

every building every building, every railroad, every bus stop, every bus, every factory, every mine.

And not only are you doing all those things, you are then telling them where to go.

So you do everything.

You are in charge of everything there is to be in charge of in this game.

Communism is when one guy tells everyone what's going to happen and you are the big communism builder.

That's true. You are a communism and you do a communism in this game.

You are the will of the people.

And so follow up question, why in the world would I want to do that?

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