Terminal Conflict
Edited review at 106 hours played.
I would definitely recommend this game for anyone interested in the cold war. I haven’t played the game ‘Twilight Struggle’ myself, but I hear it is quite like that game and I reckon if you like that game chances are good you’ll like Terminal Conflict too.
I think game captures the essence of the cold war quite well - USSR vs USA, proxy wars and managing the home front while you’re trying to achieve your goals. Intelligence is a big part of the game, especially with the Eyes Only DLC. War is abstracted, but still challenging.
– Real player with 168.3 hrs in game
Read More: Best Cold War Political Games.
In this Cold War strategy game, you assume command of either the USA or the USSR. You compete with the enemy by influencing regions, recruiting historical leaders to your cause, sometimes outright engaging the enemy forces in combat as well. Both factions have unique events, decisions and leaders. Literally every singleplayer playthrough can result in a different conclusion as the AI is dynamic and provides a challenge on its own, although its still no match for an experienced player. One thing to note though, the game is more focused on the political machinations of the Cold War, rather than military. Funding, spying, sometimes even assassinating your way to victory. Despite this, of course, military units still play a large part in the game.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
Steel Thunder
America’s four best battle tanks versus Russia’s top combat armor.
Lead an elite tank crew in one of four frontline U.S. tanks of the Cold War era, including the M60A3, M48A5 Patton, M3 Bradley CFV, and the devastating M1A1 Abrams. Select the best vehicle, weapons loadout, and crew members to suit your mission, then assume the roles of Commander, Driver, and Gunner in an indomitable war machine that rolls out of the west like steel thunder. Rise through the ranks as you build a career across missions on multiple fronts in this meticulously detailed and action-focused classic military sim.
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Fight countless battles on 21 missions in 3 major theaters of operation: Cuba, Syria and West Germany
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Master authentic firing sequences and military land strategy while deploying sophisticated tools like smokescreens and thermal gunsights
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Issue commands and requests to other crew members from each seat, or take each role yourself in real-time combat
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View the action from immersive in-tank perspectives at each seat
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Escalation: Aggressors
Really nice game with a lot of potential and devs actively listening to feedback on discord server. It’s good and it’s cheap, definitely recommended for Cold War-era military fans.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
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I picked this game up when it first came out and I don’t regret it. For five dollars you get a fun little 2-D strategy side scroller. The developer plans to add more factions and units from the EU. The gameplay works by you having your capital ship/sub and protecting it while trying to survive the round or destroy the enemies capital ship/sub. You will get spending cash to spend on either prepicked units or units you pick from the available list. Then when the match starts you get cash for every second and choose what units to spend it on to accomplish your goal. You might need to use a mix of units or space out deploying them to win. In summary for five dollars you get a side scrolling RTS that is fun,addictive but not to time consuming and will challenge you a little bit.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Tiny Combat Arena
What is the experience of Tiny Combat Arena?
Tiny Combat Arena is a labor-of-love combat flight simulator that aims to strike the perfect balance between a simulator and an approachable, customizable, air combat experience. All executed in a stylized look representing a fictional Cold War-era conflict.
Sim-lite combat flight model
Tiny Combat Arena is all about the fun factor of flying, dogfighting, and close air support. Simulation elements are added to the game in service of creating engaging and deep gameplay, never just for the sake of realism. Simulation inspired mechanics, such as boosting a missile’s range by launching from above your target, create a new range of tactics for you to explore.
Quick Mission Builder
Tiny Combat Arena lets you jump in and fly by quickly assembling various types of missions. Take a placid stroll around beautiful scenery, configure a team vs team dogfight against aircraft of your choosing, or strike objectives with ground units to attack and support.
Arena Mode
Plan your moves on the strategic map; pick objectives, identify threats, choose which units to support, and where to make a difference. There is a war going on around you, and your participation will affect its outcome.
Detailed and useful database
The in-game database provides players with not only detailed statistics on vehicles, aircraft, and weapons, but also to give tactical guidance on how to approach different aircraft and respond to different threats.
Kenbo
Simplistic, boring action game.
I did not expect much from Repa Games, seeing that their games look like asset flips. This might be one. If not, it is otherwise a low-effort game.
Store page also lies or at least exaggerates greatly. It lists the following features:
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Increasing Complexity* Dynamic Music* Beautiful Visual style[/olist]
First, there’s three enemy types. Each has one straightforward attack pattern. The game progresses in “waves” that show diminutive differences to each other; maybe there’s slightly more enemies in each wave. I couldn’t tell the difference.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
I Expect You To Die 2
I Expect You To Die 2 is the second game in a VR escape room, puzzle game with an action twist. In the game you play as spy who is on a mission to defeat the evil, Dr. Zor. The game is played seated, and contains 6 levels, and a speedrun challenge and secret achievements for each level.
The game has 6 extremely well designed levels, each with their own piece of the story, and different puzzels that can be very difficult to figure out. In each level you need help stop one of Zor’s plans, without dying to the many traps. Each of the 6 levels this game offers include a unique setting, unique mechanics, and unique achievements. These achievements always include a speed run, and a bunch of secret ones which range from picking up hidden items, to beating the levels in a completely different way. The speedruns are very cool, as a level that takes 15 minutes the first couple times, could have a speedrun of 2 minutes. This is because some items have multiple uses, and some puzzles have multiple ways to complete them.
– Real player with 24.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Super 3-D Noah’s Ark
This game is probably the best game from the Wolf3d engine which you never heard of in the 90s. When this first hit steam and I came aware of it, I looked and instantly recognised the engine. I knew it was going straight to my wishlist and soon got it.
I didn’t play it at first for a few reasons. The screenshots show a hell of a lot of brown to rival Quake. Partly the religious side of things and you need to be in the right mood for an old game in the days when you have lots of other things you can play.
– Real player with 139.5 hrs in game
This is actually a really fun game. I’m having more fun with it than I originally thought I would be.
Super 3-D Noah’s Ark is a labyrinth FPS from the DOS era which used and upgraded Wolfenstein 3D’s engine. It added a few cool things like MIDI support and texture-mapped floors and ceilings. This version on Steam has been repolished and ported over to modern operating systems, so now there’s no need to use DOSBoX to emulate it!
The quality of this port is really good. The sound quality has been bumped up significantly, it can play in 1080p with true 16:9 aspect ratio (no stretching), the mouselook feels natural and it supports mods. This release also has achievements and trading cards, which is more than what most re-releases or remakes get.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux
Don’t judge this game by its cobbled together graphical assets; they actually end up adding to the charm once you realize how good the game is! Epic Dumpster Bear is a very enjoyable platformer with a good deal of content. It’s got a lot of levels, 3 hidden collectible coins in each, some secret exits for optional harder levels, and speedrun challenge medals. It’s also pretty challenging in generally fair ways (harder than Mario, easier than Meat Boy), even for experienced platforming game players. Also the soundtrack is super good. $5 is a very fair price for the amount that you get with this game.
– Real player with 50.6 hrs in game
Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux is a funny and challenging platformer that is fun to play. You play as a bear whose natural habitat has been destroyed by “an evil corporation” and you are out for revenge. The simple story coupled with the actual gameplay really reminds me of the classic 8-16-bit games such as Mario and Sonic titles.
– Real player with 14.2 hrs in game
Kriophobia
The Cold is Just the Beginning
A science expedition was sent to Zhokhov Island to study recent occurrences of magnetic anomalies in the region. Amongst them was Anna, a young geophysicist, along with her mentor and a small military crew. As her group investigates the cause of the anomalies on the island, a sequence of disastrous events unroll trapping them in an unknown underground military complex, under the extreme cold of the Russian climate. Now, Anna desperately tries to survive and find a way out, but something down there disturbingly draws her deeper, and that unknown haunting place bizarrely welcomes her more and more…
Kriophobia is a survival horror in third person, inspired by the old-school games of the same genre. Immerse yourself in a Cold and Inhuman World of Mad Obsession, Extremist Patriotism and Disturbing Relationships, presented with a Unique Art-Style that mixes comics and painting.
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Immersive psychological horror storyline that explores a twisted and abandoned world
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Hidden Past Secrets to be found, inspired by real events from Russia’s Darkest Times
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Cold, Obscure and Terrifying scenarios to be Explored
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Evasive Combat centered on fleeing and hiding from gruesome abominations.
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Survival with Limited Resources against Freezing Temperatures in a hostile place
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Dark Visual Style that blends Comics and Painting in a unique way
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Fully Illustrated Game World displayed with modern Static Cameras
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An Exclusive Russian-Inspired soundtrack
Guardians of Infinity: To Save Kennedy
January 2087. Mankind has no time to lose. The time continuum is inexplicably unravelling by the hour, threatening to destroy the planet Earth.
Only one man can save time: temporal physicist Adam Cooper, inventor of a miraculous time travel machine - the Time Sphere. Cooper traces the cause of the time crisis to the events of November 22, 1963 and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a tragedy that should not have occurred in the normal course of history.
Determined to prevent President Kennedy’s death, Cooper assembles the Guardians of Infinity, a unique and diverse group of five individual agents who will journey back in time to November 15, 1963. You assume the identity of Adam Cooper. Your mission: to thwart the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and successfully return to the future with all of your agents.
You guide your agents and send them to critical cities such as Washington, D.C., Hyannis Port and Dallas where they must convince the President’s family, friends, and associates that his life is in jeopardy. Send your agents to see Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, or confront assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. This sets the stage for your climactic face-to-face meeting with President Kennedy where you must convince him of the impending danger awaiting him.
Can you save President Kennedy? Can you successfully return to the future? Can you discover the identity of the evil mastermind behind the assassination and the plot to destroy time?
Paragon Software’s Guardians of Infinity: To Save Kennedy is a complex strategy text game challenging the imaginative mind. This revolutionary game features:
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Unique character interaction with sophisticated human communication and emotional response so life-like you will think you are carrying on an actual conversation with your agents.
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Over 125 historical figures from the Kennedy era to utilize in your plan to save the President.
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A background novel explaining the time crisis in detail and setting the stage for your historical mission.
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A highly classified picture disk containing top secret illustrations of the events leading to your mission.
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A climactic meeting between you and President Kennedy.
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State of the art, highly advanced artificial intelligence techniques.