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Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
15 months, July 2025 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 435 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 283 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War was released on 11 Jul, 2025.
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92 achievements in total.
41 developer announcements, Oct 2024 to Aug 2026 · times in UTC
Update 1.2.4.0 for "Crisis in the Kremlin: Cold War" has been released and includes: NEWEvent chain for the Afghan Civil War.The ability to discover and reveal the secret of Operation Cyclone to the world.Many types of older save files can…
NostalgamesWhat's new — version 1.2.3.0NEW The ability to set the «Career military officer» and/or «Scientist» characteristic when creating additional politicians. The United States have grown more flexible in their foreign policy.Six new…
NostalgamesThis update is primarily aimed at diversifying the types of economies—each economy has become more unique, with its own set of metrics—and at increasing the game’s transparency and clarity. At the same time, this update also introduces new…
NostalgamesNEWThe doctrine transition system has been completely reworked: a doctrine's values now smoothly flow into the next one's instead of the usual debuffs.Added new impulses for the answer options "Revival of the JAO" and "Anti-Zionist…
Patch notesNEW The events "New CPSU Program" and "End of the Cold War" now trigger impulses depending on your choice. West Berlin can be handed over to the Prussians. Added statistics graph intervals — "3 months" and "5 years". The US president…
BuildForBuildUpdate 1.2.00 for Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War released!It includes a long list of changes! In this major update, we’ve focused on deepening the political and macroeconomic mechanics, as well as significantly improving the ‘AI’. You…
NostalgamesNew Game ContentAdded an event specifically for Grigory Romanov.Completely reworked and changed the Party Privileges modifier.Reworked the election system in Europe - it now takes into account your and American achievements in science and…
NostalgamesThe patch includes:Balance changes to the Nuclear Specialist trait for the Minister of Defense.The US now seeks to implement the Internet more willingly.Numerous bug fixes.Thank you for being with us!
Patch notesNew Gameplay ContentAdded a button to persuade politicians to vote for your law.Added the ability to choose the type of doctrine transition via events.2 new achievements.Gameplay ChangesHovering over statistics indicators now shows their…
NostalgamesThe update includes: Balance:1. World in Conflict mode has been changed: the US can now collapse, but it has become stronger economically, scientifically, and in the struggle for Africa and in wars. The most radical factions now have higher…
Patch notesThis update includes:1. Clicking on the notification icon for the science that has been researched takes you to the last science that has been researched.2. Corruption and envelopes have been rebalanced.3. Oil has been added to China.4.…
NostalgamesPatch 1.1.0.1 includes:- Starting profit is now +9 (as it should have been originally, sorry for forgetting to do that).- Improved labor shortage.- Bug fixes.Enjoy the game and thank you for reporting the issues!
Patch notesThe wait is over! Update 1.1.0 is out with a heap of new changes!New Game ContentAdded alternative freedom endings.Added new loading quotes.Penal battalions introduced.Implemented US "response" to player's aggressive foreign policy.Added…
NostalgamesThe major rebalance update includes: 1. Medicine imports have been replaced with the Technology Imports column;2. Transit solutions now take 0 days in the sandbox and half the time in the Arcade;3. Presets for the economy and characters…
NostalgamesThe patch includes significant improvements to economic flexibility:- The United States now looks at government regimes in Eastern Europe, the status of these countries, and your COMECON doctrine;- Debuffs to KGB loyalty for investments in…
Patch notesThe patch includes:Reduction of IPM requirements from 200% to 125%Weakening of the NATO Technology Embargo by 3 timesIncrease in the upper limit of VATBug fixesThank you for your feedback! We are striving to make the game better!
Patch notesUpdate 1.8.0 includes:- Introduction of a transit state for decisions;- Ability to collapse decisions;- VAT mechanics;- New religions;- New events;- New political characters and new conditions for changing their traits;- New backgrounds…
NostalgamesThe update includes:- Displaying faction desires in doctrines via icons;- More understandable text in the war window buttons;- New achievement;- Bug fixes; Enjoy the game!
Patch notesIn light of recent changes, we have reviewed your requests and made adjustments to improve your gaming experience:- Added notification about the end of doctrine transition;- When choosing to change the main doctrine, the maximum possible…
NostalgamesUpdate 1.0.7.01 includes:- The effects of doctrine transitions are now different and have a parabolic shape. Initially, they will be weak and will gradually increase towards the middle of the term, and then begin to fall again to zero.…
Patch notesThe update includes: 1. Brand new mechanics for changing core doctrines: Transition Period2. Rebalancing the Workweek Doctrine3. New event for Trump4. New achievement5. Taking into account the Partocrat trait for new politicians: the fewer…
NostalgamesUpdate 1.0.6.1999 includes:1. Display of authoritarianism and leftism indicators for doctrines and for the player on the political coordinates (when hovering over)2. Cooldown when changing doctrines now depends on difficulty3. NATO can now…
NostalgamesThe behavior of the “version” field in “info.json” has been changed. The “minVersion” and “maxVersion” fields have been added. Now you can specify the range of versions on which your mod will work so that it does not disappear with minor…
Patch notesPatch x.6.924 includes: - The ability to “persuade” politicians to join conspiracies- Special interaction with Zanzibarland in special situations- New options for Poland's fate in the event- Reworked doctrines: Semi-public planned economy…
NostalgamesDear friends, the new update improves the comfort of the game for everyone and at all stages:1. New variant of army doctrine - "PMC"2. 2 new events (on Trump's wall and on PMCs at low loyalty of generals and free market)3. Opportunity to…
NostalgamesUpdate includes:- Rebalancing (rebalancing some of the doctrines and their costs, some of the special modifiers, emergency, invasions, party displacement, and the effect of republics on political capital)- New events (4 on Trump and 1 on…
NostalgamesDear Friends. The new update includes:- Introduced the function to enable multiple mods at a time- Older versions of safes are now always displayed (although not always available)- 3 new difficulties and 3 new achievements- Bugs fixedEnjoy…
NostalgamesPatch includes:Major bugs fixedNew information window about errors Thank you for staying with us!
Patch notesVersion 1.0.5 contains the changes you requested from us:- Ability to continue playing after the year 2000- Ability to add your own avatars (the old system of avatars as Steam inventory items remains!)- New notification of unspent science…
NostalgamesDear Friends.The day has come. The game is finally out. We express our great gratitude to you for waiting. It's been a difficult years of development, but we made it through. And you did too!Enjoy the game!
NostalgamesDear friends, as you all know this was a tough week for us. Due to our misscomunication with Steam we had to postpone the release date of Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War. We are deeply sorry for that and we will take measures to prevent…
NostalgamesDear Friends.There's been a response from Steam. The game has been declined in verification for now. We have already urgently made all the necessary changes for re-moderation. And we have already sent the game for re-moderation. We…
NostalgamesDear friends!The game is ready to play and is just going through moderation on Steam. The game will be released as soon as it gets approval from Valve. We hope it won't be long now. We apologise for any inconvenience.Thank you for your…
NostalgamesDear Friends. Due to the fact that May was a very busy month and thanks to your support and willingness to wait, we have decided to set the last and final release date for the 20th of June. In honour of this, we will also be adding more…
NostalgamesUpdate Demo version 7.1: 1. Balancing Gromyko 2. Fix Chernenko bug 3. Links to positions 4. Minor re-balance 5. Fixing minor bugs Thanks for being with us!
Patch notesWe are pleased to announce the release of Demo 7.0 with many significant changes: 1. New features in the politicians window 2. New features in the diplomacy window 3. New decisions and modifiers 4. Improved Quality of Life (QoL) for players…
NostalgamesDemo 6.1: - Bug fixes - Changing the balance of wars - Changing the conditions and results of some war buttons Enjoy your game!
NostalgamesFriends! Here is the new version of Demo of our game! The most important change is the introduction of wars with new mechanics and a new window. Also the changes include improvement of player comfort and expansion of the existing…
NostalgamesSteam Next Fest continues and we're announcing our second broadcast to celebrate it right on Steam! The date is 19.10.2024, at 23:00 GMT+5, 20:00 UTC+2, 14:00 UTC-4. Welcome! We will be glad to see you!
Nostalgames2Steam Next Fest has begun and we're announcing our first broadcast to celebrate it right on Steam! The date is 15.10.2024, at 21:00 GMT+5, 19:00 GMT+3, 18:00 GMT+2. Welcome! We will be glad to see you!
Nostalgames2Dear comrades! Here is a new version of Demo of our future game. And, as you desired, now descriptions are fully ready, many decisions, important diplomatic developments, balance and so on are available. Even doctrines and various effects…
NostalgamesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
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| Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War - Patron Edition | WindowsmacOSLinux | 11 Jul 2025 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | CitK2.x86_64 | linux | ||
| Launch | CitK2.app | macos | ||
| Launch | CrisisInTheKremlin2.exe | windows 64 | ||
| Launch | CrisisInTheKremlin2.exe | windows 32 |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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WinAppDataLocalLow | Nostalgames/CrisisInTheKremlin2/saved_games | * |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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