Best Cold War Top-Down Games on PC

North Frontier

North Frontier is an exciting real-time strategy game where you have to explore new lands, build cities in harsh conditions and develop them! Mine for minerals, build factories, institutes and get rewards for completing your plan!

EXPLORE TERRITORIES! Build in the tundra, on an island, in the middle of an snowy desert or even on ice floe! Show the weather who’s in charge!

BUILD FACTORIES! Pathetic ecologists say that you need to protect nature? Prove to them that they are wrong. Extract minerals, build hazardous factories and of course do not forget about a nuclear power plant there will be no consequences!

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North Frontier on Steam

Regiment of Armour

Set In WW1 and WW2 era, you are a battle hardened veteran that must complete contracts to improve your tank. Zombies and other hostile players are swarming the map. Its up to you to enter the fray with friends, solo, or capture other enemy players adding them to your team. Choose your objective by finding contracts on the map that will reward you with currency to unlock new abilities. In order to be successful in the battlefield, you need to be quick when killing the environment to become a higher rank, well also being cognitive where other players may be laying in wait. Traps and well layed plans will be what deterimines your victory in the battlefield.

Play Solo
Play With Friends
Ally With Defeated Players
Complete Objectives
Survive or lose your tank

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Regiment of Armour on Steam

REDSIDE episode 1

In the exciting technotriller REDSIDE , the player will visit the Soviet side during the Cold War.

REDSIDE is a series of games related to one plot, characters, events and the universe. I present to your attention REDSIDE episode 1 - the first game in the series.

During the operation to free Soviet citizens, the GRU special forces group receives information about the existence of an international channel for the supply of chemical weapons components. Intelligence assumes that someone is preparing a terrorist attack using a chemical warfare agent “Sarin”. Neither the targets of the terrorist attack, nor the executors, nor the customers are known, which means that the consequences of such an attack are unpredictable. In the context of a new round of the Cold War gaining momentum, such an attack could lead to the beginning of the Third World War. To prevent the worst scenario, the GRU uses all its capabilities and conducts a number of special operations around the world. Will it be in time?

A twisted plot will send the player to carry out missions in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The game takes place in 1996 in an alternate universe.
To solve a combat mission, the player has more than 20 types of weapons available, from pistols to grenade launchers and sniper rifles.
Where firearms are useless, ammunition and additional capabilities will cope with the task.
In addition to brute force, the player can use cunning - elements of tactics and stealth will help in this.
How long have you been hunting terrorists from a drone, riding armored vehicles, or blowing up enemy patrols? Special missions and minigames will make your adventure even more exciting.

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REDSIDE episode 1 on Steam

Tunguska: The Visitation

This game is very hard, but in a strategic way. It requires no aiming skill or reflex, and you have plenty of time thinking about what to do to solve each combat scenario. Sometimes it’s more straight forward, and other times you have to die a few times to figure out the right way. It’s all about attention to details - some enemies wear armors, for example, and you can tell it from their appearance. But if you ignore that intel and just start shooting without the right kind of ammo, you’ll just be waiting ammo. There is a lot of details in the dialogues and journals, and you must pay pretty close attention to not miss important information.

– Real player with 74.4 hrs in game

6 hours in, and I really like this game. I first heard about it a couple of years ago on a Stalker forum, and my first impression from the previews was good. Now that I’ve had a chance to play the game, that first impression has been reinforced. Tunguska’s setting is moody and atmospheric. The gunplay and stealth are straightforward but challenging, and the overall result is a fun top-down twin-stick “shooter.” Quotes because there’s more to this than running and gunning – there are some light RPG elements, and a heavy element of exploration.

– Real player with 71.9 hrs in game

Tunguska: The Visitation on Steam

Raid on the Zone

Been playing this a couple of times now, and I’m very fond of it being so close to the original Raid on Bungeling Bay, even though it has been enhanced with more intelligent AI, which also makes it a bigger challenge. I haven’t beaten it yet, but I’m going to! Lots of good gameplay and replayability. Recommending this for everyone who likes to shoot stuff and have fun!

– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game

I really enjoyed this game as it resembles the old Raid on Bungeling Bay, which I have enjyoed a lot as a kid. The game is hard but loads of fun! :) Highly recommended for anyone with a trigger finger.

– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game

Raid on the Zone on Steam

Radio Commander

Overview

Set during the Vietnam War, Radio Commander is a realtime strategy game in which the player assumes the role of a company commander known by the radio handle of Papa Bear who has to accomplish military objectives by ordering two platoons via radio. Alpha Platoon is lead by a proud Texan named Kovacs and Bravo Platoon is lead by a black officer named Coleman with some prior combat experience. Unlike any other military strategy game, Radio Commander expects the player to keep track of platoons and enemy units by marking them on a map and radioing (frequently if desired) to the platoons to pinpoint their coordinates on the map in addition to locations of enemy units in which the platoons may be engaged in battle with.

– Real player with 32.8 hrs in game

After roughly 20 hours and earning all the achievements, I feel it’s time to put my look on this game into perspective.

The game is fun if you’re into pseudo-realistic military strategy games, in saying that it’s probably not for everyone, but it is fun.

Imagine a Vietnam era Tom Clancy’s Endwar, with a twist, you can’t see your units.

The three difficulty settings in the game are Story, Commander, and Veteran. The first 2 are fairly easy with the amount of micro and enemy difficulty, and the third kicks it up a notch, which is a very good thing for a game like this. It increases the difficulty to the point where you can’t just skip through radio communications all willy nilly. The combat your troops will get into is much more difficult for them to win on this difficulty mode, and you’re more likely to suffer casualties. Your troops can get lost if you keep them in a sticky situation too long before they pull out of combat. You have to keep your choppers and vehicles fueled up, or risk them crashing and losing the valuable crew they have, and the valuable asset they provide.

– Real player with 20.7 hrs in game

Radio Commander on Steam

Slip ‘n Dip

Literally the best game to happen im waiting for an Esports to come out for this game and i will be competing

– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game

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– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

Slip 'n Dip on Steam

UnMetal

Worshipping its inspirations, yet being a unique game

What to expect?

If you are at the age of about 30+, »UnMetal« might have gotten your attention due to its graphical similarities with the top-down »Metal Gear« games (MSX2, NES, GameBoy), and »UnMetal« plays very much like those: While escaping from your prison cell, which you were thrown into for »a crime you didn’t commit«, you explore your surroundings and stumble upon files about an imminent terrorist action you then try to prevent. Sneak around your opponents, distract them, knock them out with your bare hands or even shoot them (but with a catch), use mine detectors and nightvision goggles, disable surveillance devices and so on. In contrast to the aforementioned »Metal Gear« games, »UnMetal« follows a rather humorous approach while referencing iconic scenes from its inspirations. To get a first impression, I recommend playing the free demo.

– Real player with 24.5 hrs in game

I first heard about this game a couple months ago and was interested when I saw the retro NES Metal Gear style game play. I played the demo and loved the humor in it. I was excited to give it a go when the game came out and it did not disappoint. The gameplay is great. My only complaint about it is that at times, it’s hard to get right up behind somebody to punch them if you’re approaching them vertically without alerting them. It’s probably more to do with the 2D design than anything else but I had to knock a slight point off for that. Fortunately, after the first few chapters, you get chloroform which you can hold from a greatest distance so you won’t run into that issue again.

– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game

UnMetal on Steam

Punk A.F.

Punk A.F. is a gorgeous and brutal hand-drawn old-school vertical-scrolling 2D shooter game currently developed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Set in the alternate timeline of 197X, the Punk Air Force is a rebel team of extreme special ops pilots violently uprising against corrupt politicians and their greedy corporate overlords. A motley crew of outrageous playable characters with a vast arsenal of customizable jets and weapons will fly and fight their way through 12 dangerous levels scattered across 4 distinct environments. Multiple enemy aircraft, turrets, tanks, and huge bosses stand in the way, but nothing can stop Punk A.F.!

Battle through exploited English countrysides, tropical island fortresses, deadly toxic mines, and much worse!

Shoot the fuck out of evil scumbag bosses that truly deserve to die!

Elaborate and shocking narrative featuring an entire team of degenerate delinquents immersed in a world of grit, grime, betrayal, and recreational drugs.