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A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is a strategy, 4x and turn-based strategy game
developed by Maestro Cinetik
and published by Gaming at Work and Cinetique.
Released on September 21st 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
It has received 628 reviews of which 549 were positive and 79 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.5 gz and 2 cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Catalina or higher
- Processor: i3 or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Unsure
- Processor: i3 or higher
- Memory: 8 MB RAM
- Storage: 3 MB available space
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Very unpolished and quite unintuitive, the lack of explanation for why or how things are happening make it feel less like a thought out political/war game sim, and more like a game about understanding how seemingly distant and poorly explained or understood mechanics interact with each other. That being said, this is a one man labor of love, and on a very complex and hard to research era of history that I am an avid reader of. Just the fact that someone took on the daunting challenge to make warlord era china into a complex grand strategy game, let alone attempting to fully embrace the multifaceted complexities of the time gets my respects. I think over a long period of time learning how these mechanics work and embracing the roughness in the games UI and design, I will be able to fully enjoy this game.
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Very unique setting, with a focus on management of armies + provinces + characters. Rebels are much more realistic in this game, wow, never seen a game have realistic rebels like this. Truly, it takes the cake, no other game has done it this well. Soldiers desert your army (due to poor suppy, mismanagement, or not being paid, etc). They then turn into bandits, which appear on the map as an enemy army. They can be very small (a hundred or so) to even thousands. If you want civ, eu4, hoi4, total war, etc, you can go play that. This game is a historic sandbox simulator that tries to reflect the realities of the time period into it's gameplay formula. Think of it as a fun way to learn about this period of chinese history.
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Probably one of the best historical/educational games I've played on here, I'm not even kidding. Personally, the Warlord Era of China has always fascinated me, but information on it is either sparse or really, REALLY hard to come by. It was a mess of various factions, people, and ideologies over a splintering country. And, somehow, this game simulates it insanely well. I won't lie when I said I learned quite a lot just from playing this game- how the CCP developed, the early connections between the KMT and the USSR, the various cliques that ruled over China and what they were- all great stuff. And unlike a lot of other historical games, I think it backs that historical accuracy up with some great gameplay that really makes you feel like a Chinese warlord. You're often spying on other factions to bribe their armies and men into your service, fending off bandits, pillaging random cities just to sate your massive armies- it's all built into the system, making it purposefully hard to be a "good" leader. Eventually you'll need to play dirty in order to win. The only thing I would warn about with this game is that it is complex and confusing- again, purposefully to simulate the era- and your first few runs will almost certainly end in failure. Even with 150 hours of gameplay there's plenty I don't understand about how the game works- you sort of just get a "feel" for it after a while. I can't say it's a game for everyone, but for me- this has been more than worth the $20 or so I dropped on it.
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Bought this one as a guilty purchase, because I had a craving for warlord era China content. I have an unhealthy fascination with that time period and I thought that a game about it could do me no harm. Boy, was I wrong. A 100 hours later in and now not only is my obsession growing, I can't get enough. The game is so much better than it seems that it's uncanny. It dragged me in for weeks and now I must have more. It's grip on my mind is worrying. I am now as loyal as Feng Yuxiang, as noble as Zhang Zongchang and as content as Cao Kun. I am also a member of both the CPC and KMT plus I sell drugs on the side to fuel my growing desire for rifles. I hate Japan. I love Japan, but on the side I cheat on Japan with the UK. Goddamn, I'm great. The game's better than opium. Speaking of, I gotta earn some cash for the rest of MC's games, so I gotta bounce. Buy the game.
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I feel I need to share a bit of story in this review, in order to provide a full view of this game from my perspective. I was doing a university project about China's struggles in the early 20th century, I was researching on Google, and then I found this game, totally out of the blue. As a Chinese, I never understand. Why do people seem only know about D-Day, Battle of Stalingrad, Siege of Berlin. What about the Battle of Shanghai? Battle of Wuhan? We spilled blood for a better world too. There's little to almost no coverage of China in the mainstream Western media. Fair, different cultures after all. But even in China, it's more or less the same. Sure, there are a lot of TV shows about the war, but they are honestly not that realistic and very biased. There is heavy censorship on discussing these topics, and the endless angry comments to drown you when you have different opinions about history than they do? I just feel tired of talking about history anymore. So imagine my surprise when a Western indie developer made a game about one of the most complicated eras of modern-day China. I NEVER seen any game sets in the Warlord Era. The amount of research that has been put into this game must be insane. It has more depth and challenge than I could ever have thought. Some people just saw the grand strategies tag and a big map and immediately associated it with Hoi4, while I love Hoi4, this isn't Hoi4, they have SOME similarities, but they are different games in the core. If you looking for a challenging game with rich historical elements, and you are interested in Chinese history. I would high suggest you try Rise of the White Sun out. However, the UI may be difficult to understand and navigate for new players, but you will get used to it eventually. And once you get used to the gameplay loop, it might be a little stale. But overall, it is really good! Support Maestro Cinetik if you can! He continuously updates this game even though there are not many players, and he still has another game in development. He is very active in his discord too, if you have any questions about the game, come join! I do believe Maestro deserves a lot more praise than he got. There's even a DLC coming, so please support him if you can!
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Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 20.99€ on Steam.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 received 549 positive votes out of a total of 628 achieving a rating of 8.20.
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Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 was developed by Maestro Cinetik and published by Gaming at Work and Cinetique.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升. Explore additional content available for Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 on Steam.
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Online players
12
Developer
Maestro Cinetik
Publisher
Gaming at Work,
Cinetique
Release
21 Sep 2023
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