Crisis in the Kremlin on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 1,381 reviews of which 1,169 were positive and 212 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.


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System 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

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Jan. 2025
completely indecipherable english localization, and worse onboarding than a gary grigsby game however i've changed my review to a thumbs up because it runs natively on linux
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June 2024
Super good political strategy game, engaging and worth the price.
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June 2024
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good β˜‘ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good β˜‘ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good β˜‘ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens β˜‘ Adults β˜‘ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- β˜‘ 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 β˜‘ 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 β˜‘ Difficult β˜‘ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- β˜‘ 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 β˜‘ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short β˜‘ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! β˜‘ Worth the price β˜‘ 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 β˜‘ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 β˜‘ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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June 2024
Crisis in the Kremlin is a heavily detailed political simulator. While it's hard to learn (believe me, I have no idea what i'm doing), it can still be a fun play every once in a while. Overall, 7/10 game.
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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.
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Crisis in the Kremlin
8.1
1,169
212
Online players
4
Developer
Nostalgames
Publisher
Nostalgames
Release 20 Mar 2017
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