Crisis in the Kremlin

Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?

Crisis in the Kremlin is a political sim, strategy and cold war game developed and published by Nostalgames.
Released on March 20th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 1,376 reviews of which 1,166 were positive and 210 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Crisis in the Kremlin into these genres:

Political Sim Strategy Cold War Simulation Indie Politics Historical Alternate History Grand Strategy Diplomacy Choices Matter Story Rich Management RPG Political Turn-Based Strategy Strategy RPG CRPG Choose Your Own Adventure Multiple Endings

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP2+ (64-bit), Windows 7 SP1+ (32-bit, 64-bit)
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

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June 2024

Super good political strategy game, engaging and worth the price.

June 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☑ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

May 2024

What a fascinating experience. The game is, fundamentally, written by someone with a somewhat limited perspective of the world. Croats are all fascists, Ukrainians are dangerous, and Pizza Hut is a sign of impending doom. In this mode of analysis, the USSR genuinely could have been saved by re-instituting an obscure computerisation programme abandoned in the 70s, landing a man on Mars, and messing around with how much bribe money you give away to the people who do the torturing. Another example- one of the "victory" conditions is successfully launching a first strike on the USA. Meanwhile decommissioning your nuclear arms totally- even if the US does the same- leads to an automatic in-game defeat; a NATO "no-fly" zone is imposed and the USSR is forcefully broken up. There is no way to avoid this, even if DEFCON is at 5 and Ross Perot is president when you decommission. The UI is poor, the English translation is spotty, and it's almost impossible to figure out what anything actually does, but I can't help but feel like that's only in line with the experience.

April 2024

really good game, difficult and allows you to see all the outcomes of the cold war. As a huge history nerd I would 100% recomend.

March 2024

Fun game. Very complex and a lot of details and moving parts. Takes a while to understand everything going on. The game itself doesn't explain nearly enough of how things are affected by actions and the tutorial doesn't go nearly deep enough to have a successful play. Highly recommend reading several forums on game play. Also save every turn. Saving often and checking your stat box will help you understand how each event will effect the various relationships you must balance constantly. Saving the USSR is (as it should be) an extremely difficult task, but once you understand the deep dynamics of the game it is very fun for anyone that enjoys political management sims. I also really like how this game can be won (or lost) a number of different ways.

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4.99€

8.1

1,166

210

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Developer

Nostalgames

Publisher

Nostalgames

Release 20 Mar 2017

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