Top-Rated Free Cold War Games on Steam

16 free Cold War games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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2024: Mosaic Retrospective - Players say: Solve Minesweeper-style clues across a vast grid, filling tiles to reveal pixel-art scenes and 2024 news events. Players like: Relaxing Puzzle Sessions · Satisfying Mosaic Progress · Helpful Hints ·
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2024: Mosaic Retrospective is a charity-fundraising picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by global news stories from throughout the year.

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Dec 30, 2024
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Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue - Players say: Command a mecha squad behind enemy lines in a turn-based war campaign where terrain, damaged parts, and scarce supplies shape each fight. Players like: Tactical Combat · Mech Customization · Terrain and Positioning ·
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Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue is the proof of concept for the upcoming procedural turn-based mecha tactics RPG set in alternate 1970s Southeast Asia. In this prologue chapter, you'll get to experience combat, exploration, and the opening story of the game.

FUCK STALIN - Players say: Build physics-based torture contraptions for Stalin, use weapons to score points, and share custom maps in a sandbox. Players like: Ragdoll Mayhem · Absurd Dark Humor · Creative Setups ·
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Avenge millions of innocent victims and inflict brutal violence on the communist dictator Joseph Stalin using a wide range of torture tools thanks to the blessing of the free market.

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Jan 12, 2024
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3 Days War - Players say: Command a faction in a real-time grid war, building forces, choosing strategy cards and battling players in three-day campaigns. Players like: Distinctive RTS Format · Strategic Unit Counters · Team Multiplayer ·
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3 Days War is a unique multiplayer strategy war game. Integrating the mechanics of RTS+4X, it allows dozens of players to engage in a three-day real-time strategy competitionon. Commanders, use your skills, strategies, games and even deception to become the ultimate winner!

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Apr 16, 2023
84% 👍
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Operation: Harsh Doorstop - Players say: A tactical military FPS where you capture objectives with a squad, fight bots or players, and expand battles through community mods. Players like: Community-Created Mods · Tactical Team Battles · Offline Bot Matches ·
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Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by developers of the cancelled Project Reality 2 project.

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Feb 15, 2023
78% 👍
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World of Warplanes - Players say: Pilot military aircraft in online team battles, capture objectives, and upgrade planes from seven nations. Players like: Easy to Learn · Arcade Flight Combat · Aircraft Variety ·
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World of Warplanes is an aerial combat MMO action game set in the Golden Age of military aviation. The game throws players into a never-ending battle for dominance of the skies.

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Feb 10, 2022
70% 👍
of 5.6k
Martial Law - Players say: In 1981 communist Poland, a struggling father searches for Christmas gifts for his daughter through conversations, choices, and scarcity. Players like: Moving Family Story · Polish History Details · Pixel-Art Atmosphere ·
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Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.

SimRail - The Railway Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Drive passenger and freight trains through two Polish scenarios, managing cab controls, signals, speed, and station stops. Players like: Realistic Train Handling · Detailed Cab Controls · Passenger And Freight ·
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SimRail - The Railway Simulator Prologue presents the full range of possibilities of the newest and best simulator of the work of train driver. Take on the challenge and take the controls of a freight or passenger train!

Object N - Players say: As a Soviet engineer in a disaster-struck Cold War research bunker, fight threats, solve puzzles, and search for a way to the surface. Players like: Simple Shooter Fun · Co-op With Friends · Creepy Bunker Setting ·
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A classic-style hardcore dynamic shooter which takes place in a science underground center.

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Jan 13, 2021
85% 👍
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Liquidators - Players say: As one of three Chernobyl workers, navigate irradiated plant corridors, read a Geiger counter, and shut down critical valves. Players like: Oppressive Atmosphere · Radiation-Based Tension · Chernobyl Tribute ·
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Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Mr. Prepper: Prologue - Players say: In a surveilled dystopia, build a hidden bunker, gather scarce supplies, and keep inspectors from uncovering your plans. Players like: Secret Bunker Building · Evading Inspectors · Dystopian Premise ·
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Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.

Desert Bus VR - Players say: Drive a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas in real time, making small steering corrections on an intentionally uneventful eight-hour desert route. Players like: Absurd Endurance Challenge · Friends on the Bus · VR Driver Immersion ·
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Desert Bus is back and better than ever! The 1998 Penn and Teller cult hit mini-game is coming to virtual reality, so you can fully immerse yourself in the thrilling eight-hour trip from Arizona to Nevada. It’s almost like you’re driving the “wheel” thing!

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two - Players say: Jesse’s hand is caught in an ancient temple gauntlet, launching an episodic adventure shaped by choices and new companions. Players like: Story and Characters · Episode Adventures · Sequel Appeal ·
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Together with old pals and new comrades alike, Jesse embarks on a brand new journey filled with tough choices, good times, and at least one temperamental llama.

Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY - Players say: Direct air, naval, land-based and satellite forces in detailed simulations of historical and hypothetical conflicts. Players like: More Stable Than Successor ·
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Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.

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Sep 26, 2014
83% 👍
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War Thunder - Players say: Pilot aircraft, drive tanks, and command warships in combined-arms battles or solo campaigns across historical and modern settings. Players like: Broad Vehicle Roster · Combined-Arms Combat · Detailed Vehicle Models ·
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War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising - Players say: Lead Soviet, Allied, or Imperial forces in postwar RTS campaigns, or control Yuriko in a solo dungeon-crawl story. Players like: Wild New Units · Commander’s Challenges · Distinct Faction Forces ·
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Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.

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Oct 6, 2009
83% 👍
of 5.9k