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Press release:
On January 16th, 2022, AT 3:00 pm (UTC+02:00, Warsaw time).
The Warsaw-based (Poland) indie games publisher PlayWay S.A. and indie games developer Madnetic Games, today announced with great thrill and delight that their WW2-themed strategy/Sim/RPG “WW2 Rebuilder” (the game is a simulator about rebuilding European cities after the destruction caused during World War II), is coming to PC via Steam on January 16th, 2023.

For Madnetic Games, WW2 Rebuilder is the first game to have a full release. In 2022, a free Demo and Prologue were published for this project. These have been very well received, at this point WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue has a whopping 87.27% positive reviews out of over 330 issued.

As many reviewers note, the idea is unusual. Here is a game about war, in which we do not grab a rifle, but a hammer, and instead of destroying – we create. We move to the time immediately after the conflict, when most of the old continent was destroyed. In the full version we will see maps from Great Britain, France and West Germany. We will play a different character in each country.

Players can discover the history behind ruins. Pick up a hummer or a trowel, drive in a bulldozer, clean up the area and design the new look of a place by placing different decorations. Get ready for a perfect mix of a history and a building simulator. See the stories of civilians and people of different nationalities after war.

The studio plans to keep adding maps and other mechanics to the game after the initial release for the next six months, up to a maximum of a year. In the Early Access version of the game, 10 maps will be available, however, including a Sandbox map in which you can design your own town and build it from scratch. Future updates announced by the studio will include two additional maps – Ludendorff and Normandy – new buildings for the Sandbox map, more decorations and a camera mode. Other changes are to be tailored to the needs of players.

Features:

A tutorial on a farm in Bibury

Realistic environment of post-war European cities

Variety of tools, allowing an enjoyable reconstruction,

Gameplay requiring skillful resource management

Scoring system evaluating the quality of work done by a player

Necropolis railroad station in London

London (part of the city)

Belfast shipyard (from which the Titanic once sailed)

Essen arms factory, and more!

Future updates announced by the studio will include two additional maps – Ludendorff and Normandy. The game is a reconstruction simulator, but the studio decided that storytelling is equally important in the game – hence we will experience many stories of civilians through letters, posters, tickets, notes scattered around the maps, but also through visual flashbacks or cutscenes.

About Madnetic Games:
We are a freshly formed creative game company unifying talented artists & game developers.

Our teammates gathered their experience working for companies like Donkey Crew, Ten Square Games, Huuuuge, Code Horizon, Imielsky Studio, Codemasters, MediaTonic, Reach Robotics.

We do a game design up to complete game development. Committed to create perfect gaming experience and what we care about the most are results of our creative and development process.

About PlayWay:
Founded by Krzysztof Kostowski, PlayWay is the second biggest producer and publisher of video games in Poland and one of the top in Europe. PlayWay was created in 2011 to build quality games for PC, consoles and mobile devices. Since then it has produced and released over 70 games worldwide. They sold in over 15M copies on mobile devices and in over 1M units on desktops.