Nations

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Nations is a single player real-time strategy game with a historical theme. It was developed by Krzysztof Steiner and was released on August 17, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Nations is a real time strategy game focused on ruling a country through the history. The game provides a range of mechanics, such as economy, industry, society and wide lawmaking. You decide whether you focus on internal development of your state, or expending its territories – or maybe both of these things simultaneously. You must provide your people with food, consumer goods, and a sense of …

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89%Audience ScoreBased on 88 reviews

grinding3 negative mentions

Unique and engaging mechanics, especially the ability to draw custom administrative and peace deal borders.
Deep and challenging gameplay with significant brain usage required and long playtimes.
Active development with regular updates, bug fixes, and a lot of potential to rival established grand strategy games.

Frequent crashes and lag issues that disrupt gameplay and loading, requiring fixes.
Graphics and UI are considered outdated, unpleasant, or clunky compared to competitors.
Steep learning curve with insufficient tutorials or clear explanations, making the game confusing and sometimes frustrating for new players.

gameplay
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17% positive mentions, 66% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions
The gameplay offers deep and unique mechanics, including nation building and custom border drawing, providing an impressive strategic experience. However, the complexity is often frustrating due to a lack of clear explanations, tooltips, and guides, making it difficult for players to fully understand or manage key systems. Despite some technical issues, the gameplay has strong potential and rewards players willing to explore and experiment.
- “It is simplistic yet it has a lot of depth in terms of mechanics, nation building, and map painting.”
- “Despite the game looking like a plain pixel map game, the mechanics and systems are truly the most impressive and entertaining things I've seen in an indie strategy game.”
- “The game offers players a wide span of time to engage with, interesting and unique mechanics, and the potential to become something great.”
- “There are too many mechanics that even after 50 hours of gameplay, I don't fully understand what is happening, possibly due to lack of videos, proper explanations, and guides compared to games like HOI4.”
- “The biggest issue is that the game expects you to manage complex mechanics without giving you the tools or explanations to do so.”
- “The lack of explanations, missing tooltips, and unclear mechanics turn the whole experience into frustration instead of fun.”
graphics
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions
The graphics are generally seen as subpar and outdated compared to competitors, with many users finding the UI unpleasant and the visuals lacking polish. However, the game offers options for simpler or more complex graphical settings, and improvements are anticipated as the indie developer continues updates.
- “I see the option to send a trade offer to other nations is a feature that's coming soon, so I have my hopes up, and maybe a graphics update someday. It's still in early access with an indie dev, so I don't expect a triple-A game.”
- “What the game is really just missing is bugfixing, more content (I believe the developer is working on historical events), and perhaps some more modern-looking graphics.”
- “All I have to do is disable it in the map, which allows for both simple and more complex graphics for everyone.”
- “The honest review is that it's very good gameplay-wise and mechanics-wise, but it crashes a lot and the graphics are not very good compared to its competitors, such as Age of History 3.”
- “What the game is really missing is bug fixing, more content (the developer is reportedly working on historical events), and perhaps some more modern-looking graphics.”
- “Maybe a graphics update someday; it's still in early access with an indie developer, so I don't expect a triple-A game.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is highly repetitive and demands constant manual input, making troop management tedious, especially for large nations. The user interface further complicates this by hiding essential information, contributing to an overall feeling of tedious micromanagement.
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
- “Everything requires constant manual clicking, troop movement is tedious, and the UI hides important information behind unclear menus.”
- “I feel like the main gripe people might have is that the micromanagement can get really tedious when you have a large nation, which I can definitely agree with.”
story
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
The game has no story, as noted consistently by users.
- “No story”
stability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game's stability is notably poor, with frequent bugs, glitches, and crashes that can hinder the playing experience. While the gameplay remains engaging, users recommend waiting for updates to improve stability before diving in.
- “This game is barebones and ridden with bugs and glitches which make it annoying to play.”
- “Nations is a peak game; sure, it is very buggy and quite prone to crashing, but it is still very interesting.”
- “However, if you expect a stable, unbuggy game, wait a bit.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game suffers from crashes and stuttering even on modest setups, indicating optimization issues that need addressing. However, it offers good value compared to other grand strategy titles known for poor support and costly, minimally updated releases.
- “The game crashed and was stuttering even though it's relatively small; please fix this issue. I am unsure what caused it, but here are my PC specs for better troubleshooting.”
- “Civilization games (7, 6, 5) suffer from much worse performance despite being minor updates with slightly updated graphics, leading to outrageously priced games with poor optimization.”