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Arma Reforger
Action 16 November 2023
Arma Reforger is an online shooter that tests the new Enfusion graphics engine ahead of the release of Arma 4. The title is set in 1989 and allows players a lot of freedom to create new content - including gameplay mechanics.
Rule the Waves 3
Strategy 18 May 2023
A complex strategy game, being more of a realistic naval simulator. It is the first installment in this series by Naval Warfare Simulations to release on Steam.
HROT
Action 16 May 2023
An old-school FPS set in the depressing 1986 Communist Prague. In HROT we play as a soldier facing strange invaders now dwelling in the city. The player can wield various firearms, a sickle and a hammer, as well as more unusual weapons.
Regiments
Strategy 16 August 2022
Regiments is a real-time war strategy game. It shows a fictional conflict fought in 1989 between NATO forces and Warsaw Pact armies.
Combat Mission: Cold War
Strategy 30 April 2021
Combat Mission: Cold War is a new part of the strategy series with roots going back to the turn of the 20th and 21st century. The game takes us to the times of the Cold War and offers three different story campaigns. Game was developed by Battlefront studio.
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
Action 13 November 2020
The seventeenth edition of the cycle of FPP shooters initiated in 2003. Activision, an American company, is responsible for the release of the game.
South of the Circle
Adventure 30 October 2020
Adventure game that takes us into the middle of the Cold War. The main character of South of the Circle is Peter - climatologist, who after crashing in Antarctica, is looking for rescue, reflecting on his past and analyzing his chosen life path.
Commander '85
Adventure 30 September 2020
Commander '85 is a sci-fi thriller in a retro style. Player impersonates a teenager, who for his birthday receives Commander, a computer with artificial intelligence. With his help, he gets to know a conspiracy that could endanger the existence of the world.
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Strategy 21 November 2019
A turn-based psychological thriller game with political, espionage, and science-fiction elements.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War
Strategy 12 September 2019
A stand-alone expansion to Men of War: Assault Squad 2. Add-on takes place during the Cold War and allows you to take control of USSR or U.S. troops in a dynamically generated campaign.
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
Adventure 16 May 2019
A satirical point'n'click adventure from the Polish studio Artifex Mundi. As the first representative of the rotten West, we find ourselves in the communist Matryoshka and get to know the realities of life in a country ruled by communists.
Arma III Creator DLC: Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany
Action 29 April 2019
Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany is an expansion to the 2013 Arma III military simulator. Unlike the basic version of the game, the Vertexmacht studio is responsible for the release.
Tropico 6
Strategy 29 March 2019
One of the installments in the economy strategy game series started in 2001 - Tropico. The game has been developed by Limbic Entertainment - the creators of Might & Magic X: Legacy and Might & Magic: Heroes VII. In Tropico 6, the player assumes the role of El Presidente - the leader of a banana republic.
Armored Brigade
Strategy 15 November 2018
A realistic real-time strategy set in the period of the Cold War. The game delivers enormous battlefields inspired by true locations, authentic vehicles, weapons from that historical period, and dynamic artificial intelligence. The weather and terrain conditions play a crucial part in each battle.
Phantom Doctrine
Strategy 14 August 2018
Phantom Doctrine is an espionage strategy game developed by the Polish developer CreativeForge Games. The action of the game is set in the 1980 and depicts an alternative version of the Cold War. The player spearheads a secret intelligence agency with the objective to stop a global plot to take control of the entire world. One has to recruit new agents, train and equip them, and provide them with false identities.
Command: Shifting Sands
Strategy 24 October 2017
Third standalone add-on to Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations. Shifting Sands focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict. WarfareSims studio is responsible for his creation.
Cold Waters
Simulation 05 June 2017
A mix of simulation and strategy game developed by the independent studio Killerfish Games. The plot is loosely based on Tom Clancy’s works, telling an alternative version of history, in which the Cold War eventually turned into World War III. The player assumes the role of a submarine captain and tries to stop the Soviet Union’s plans to establish an outpost in Scandinavia. Mission objectives focus on fighting enemy naval and land units, preventing sea landings, and raiding convoys.
Interkosmos
Simulation 25 April 2017
Interkosmos is a VR simulation game and the first game developed by Ovid Works, a studio made of developers who previously worked for Flying Wild Hog, CD Projekt RED, and CreativeForge Games. The game takes place in 1970's, during the Cold War and Space Race times. We play as an astronaut who travels back to Earth in a experimental Zevzda pod. Our job is to get back home safely with the help from NASA and Roscosmos operators.
Twilight Struggle
Strategy 13 April 2016
A digital adaptation of the strategy board game created by American company GMT Games. Twilight Struggle takes place during the Cold War and the player assumes the role of a leader of one of the two empires – USA or USSR. The game is played in turns on a global map. The rivaling sides are playing with cards that trigger events beneficial for one, either, or neither side of the conflict.
Alekhine's Gun
Action 01 March 2016
A third-person action game with stealth elements, set in the Cold War period and created by Haggard Games (the title was previously intended as the third installment in the Death to Spies series). The game has you assume the role of a Russian agent, and at the same time a trained assassin. While cooperating with American CIA, he takes part in a series of espionage operations in different parts of the world (Europe, USA, Cuba).
Reagan Gorbachev
Action 24 February 2016
A humorous top-down shooter created by the independent developer team at Team2Bit. The action takes place in 1986 when a mysterious organization kidnaps the leaders of the world's two main superpowers: Reagan and Gorbachev. With both the world peace and themselves being at risk, the two presidents have to put aside their differences and join forces, for only cooperation will allow them to escape and prevent a nuclear apocalypse. The gameplay mechanics are inspired by classic top-down shooters.
Clandestine
Action 05 November 2015
A stealth action game about spies, set in 1990s. This title was created by Danish studio Logic Artists. The story begins in 1996 and its main plot focuses around a series of mysterious deaths of spies belonging to both Eastern and Western intelligence agencies. In order to solve the case, a special international unit called Kingsbridge Executive is created. Players become members of this elite squad and are sent to various locations, such as Vienna or NASA bunker in Washington.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Action 01 September 2015
A third person perspective stealth action game belonging to the famous Metal Gear Solid franchise. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was created by the Japanese studio Kojima Productions (formerly a subsidiary of Konami) led by Hideo Kojima. The story is set after the events presented in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which served as a prologue. The main hero – Punished Snake – awakes in a hospital bed after having spent 8 years in a coma.
Tropico 5: Espionage
Strategy 28 May 2015
Espionage is the second add-on to the fifth game in the Tropico series currently owned by Haemimont Games. Surveilling the public, controlling the secret services and the army are some of the expansion's main new features. Espionage introduces nine new buildings to the game, among which we will find the Spy Academy, Mechanized Garrison, Dungeons, and Security Checkpoints. They will all come in handy in the new single player campaign, The Maltese Toucan.