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A list of Released Strategy Cold War video games for PC sorted by release date.

Strategy games. Victory depends here on player’s strategy and tactics. Main task is to control resources (e.g. troops, civil workers) in order to defeat an enemy or achieve some other goal. The gameplay can be turn-based or in real time (RTS). Specific types of strategy games are economic games and so called ‘tycoons’. more

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ICBM: Escalation
ICBM: Escalation

Strategy 21 November 2024

A combination of an RTS and a grand strategy, presented in a similar form to the board game Risk. ICBM: Escalation was made by a Russian studio SoftWarWare. It covers warfrare from the Cold War times up to the near future, including the use of nuclear weapons.

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age
Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Strategy 12 November 2024

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age is a strategy game from the Triassic Games studio, moving us into the 1970s and 1980s. Our task is to lead an aircraft carrier strike team in a campaign taking place in the Atlantic Ocean.

Regiments: Winds of Change
Regiments: Winds of Change

Strategy 16 August 2024

The first expansion for the cold war RTS from 2022. Regiments: Winds of Change features a new campaign mode with procedurally generated content and random mission objectives. We can also command new armies and use new types of units on the battlefield.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Strategy 20 June 2024

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city builder by 3Division. It tasks us with managing, expanding and leading a fictional Soviet republic to a bright future.

Tropico 6: Tropican Shores
Tropico 6: Tropican Shores

Strategy 18 June 2024

The eighth expansion for the economic strategy from 2019. Tropico 6: Tropican Shores allows to build not only on land, but also at sea. Pearls are a new resource, and there are also 15 new objects and 3 new edicts concerning our citizens or visiting tourists.

Warno
Warno

Strategy 23 May 2024

Warno is a real-time strategy from Eugen Systems studio, known among others from Wargame series. Game takes up the theme of the Cold War, which turns into World War III.

Rule the Waves 3
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.

Regiments
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
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.

Cold War Game
Cold War Game

Strategy 02 July 2020

Cold War Game presents an alternative vision of the Cold War, in which the USA and the USSR do not come to an agreement and decide to force the opponent to adopt their ideology. The gameplay consists of tactical real-time armed battles on German territory.

Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
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
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.

Tropico 6
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
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
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
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.

Twilight Struggle
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.

Tropico 5: Espionage
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.

60 Seconds!
60 Seconds!

Strategy 25 May 2015

A post-apocalyptic survival strategy game with RPG elements, created by Polish developer Robot Gentleman Studios. You play as the head of a typical American family, who has to provide for his loved ones in the face of an incoming nuclear war. The game starts 60 seconds before the first explosion, giving you one minute to get to a shelter while grabbing the most essential provisions on the way.

Tropico 5: Waterborne
Tropico 5: Waterborne

Strategy 17 December 2014

The first large expansion pack to the economic strategy game Tropico 5. The expansion introduces the possibility to take advantage of waters which – although present in the series since the beginning – weren’t exploited before. The expansion features a six-level story campaign during which el Presidente is fighting for power on land and on the sea. He can use nine new buildings and units (including floating apartments and military submarines).

Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Supreme Ruler Ultimate

Strategy 17 October 2014

Special cross-edition of the popular strategy series, created by the Battlegoat studio on the basis of their own production from 1982. The game combines four previously released instalments of the series, the action of which stretches from the late 1930s to the near future. During the game, we take control over a chosen nation and our goal is to lead it to world domination, taking care of such aspects of the state's functioning as government, diplomacy, economics, trade, espionage and weaponry.

Tropico 5
Tropico 5

Strategy 23 May 2014

The fifth installment in the popular series of economic strategy games developed by studio Haemimont Games, which is responsible for the franchise since the third entry in the series. The game makes the player a leader of a small tropical island, responsible for governing it all the way from the colonial age through modern times and to the near future. Your tasks will be, as usual, to develop the city and take care of its industry and economy.

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm

Strategy 09 October 2013

A turn-based strategy game set in the Cold War and taking us into the reality of three fictitious invasions of NATO forces on the USSR. The production contains more than 20 scenarios played out in central Europe and gives the opportunity to lead the troops of both hostile armies. Attention is drawn to the advanced artificial intelligence of the opponents and the detailed units and battlefields.

Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations

Strategy 24 September 2013

An incredibly extensive strategy game created by Warfare Sims in cooperation with Slitherine - a renowned publishing company. The player is given an opportunity to take control of a fleet consisting of aircraft carriers, support ships, as well as attack and transport planes. The player takes part in dozens of scenarios referencing both historical events and fictional operations set in the near future.