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Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

China: Mao's legacy is a political sim, strategy and simulation game developed and published by Nostalgames.
Released on May 24th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 1,007 reviews of which 927 were positive and 80 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX10 (shader model 4.0)
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 10.12+
  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04+, SteamOS+
  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
If this game were just a little bigger, I think I would lose all of my time to it. This game gripped me, a longtime GSG addict, in the same way that learning EU3 did a decade ago. I have been recommending this to all of my friends and I can't wait to see what this studio works on next.
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Dec. 2024
There is a bug in the newest version that when Carter becomes the USA' president in 1977 and the "rentier bourgeoisie" modifier exists, the relations with the USA doesn't +1 every two weeks.
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Oct. 2024
the fact this game is only 8.99 is crazy, it is also way more polished compared to citk and Ostalgie which is why i have spent over 90 hours on this game compared to 14 hours on Ostalgie and 14 on citk. yes the english translation is not great and yes there is a learning curve but compared to citk and ostalgie it is not super hard to master.
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Aug. 2024
Basically the best game by this studio. This game is much less cryptic, you see the effects of increasing/decreasing budget (Unlike in crisis in the kremlin where you just had to guess), the UI is much better, and I love the new real time mechanics instead of just pressing on a book to progress the game. The game is also less punishing and less frustrating than other games, I had quite a good ending in my first game. You would probably not get to be a mighty superpower in your first run and miss a lot of possible outcomes, but you won't collapse horribly if you try and play historically. Overall, really fun and definitely buy this if you liked their other games!
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June 2024
The only thing I understand about this game is that the only way to save china is to make some numbers go up and make the other numbers go down
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China: Mao's legacy
8.7
927
80
Online players
14
Developer
Nostalgames
Publisher
Nostalgames
Release 24 May 2019
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