Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition

Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition

Muzzy Lane Software · May 19, 2015 · Strategy, Simulation, World War II, Grand Strategy, Historical

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Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition price by region

Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition costs $3.29 in Georgia (USD), £3.59 in the United Kingdom, $4.49 in the United States, €4.49 in Europe (EUR), CA$5.49 in Canada, A$6.59 in Australia, NZ$7.39 in New Zealand, R$10.49 in Brazil and zł19.80 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.29 −10% $3.29 — 2
United Kingdom £3.59 −10% £3.59 — 3
United Statesyour region $4.49 −10% $4.49 — 3
Europe (EUR) €4.49 −10% €4.49 — 3
Canada CA$5.49 CA$5.49 — 3
Australia A$6.59 −10% A$6.59 — 3
New Zealand NZ$7.39 −10% NZ$7.39 — 3
Brazil R$10.49 R$10.49 — 2
Poland zł19.80 −10% zł19.80 — 2

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About Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition

✦ AI summary

Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition is a turn-based grand strategy game where you manage diplomacy, military forces, and industrial production across over 80 nations to reshape or recreate history. The Gold Edition refines tactical gameplay with unit customization, improved financial management, and multiple victory conditions—letting you dominate through conquest, ideology, or alliance.

Making History: Calm & the Storm Gold Edition is a turn-based grand strategy classic. Play against the world or join an alliance. Attempt to alter history or replay it. This release includes many game updates, key improvements to strategic and tactical gameplay, and features a new Germany focused scenario: "The Rise of the Reich". In addition to managing the military, players must build, supply and grow a modern industrial base in order to field forces capable of victory. The decision to expand factories, research new weapons or recruit more units is in the hands of the player. War will come and the nation must be prepared.

FEATURES


  • Clean, intuitive interface and gameplay make this one of the easiest grand strategy games to learn, and the open nature of the game combined with the ability to play as any one of over 80 nations offer endless replay-ability.
  • Gold Edition adds new military unit properties and gives you the ability to rename units, preset rally points and set way-points for more tactical movement. Regions can upgrade defenses, transportation, and food production simultaneously. Better financial reports let you manage your treasury more easily.
  • Different victory conditions available: Nation, Alliance, or Ideological (Democracy, Communism, Fascism, or Authoritarianism) You can also go for a domination victory and set the percentage of land you need to control to win the game.
  • Ten scenarios included with multiple starting points before and during the war. Plus alternate history and the fantasy scenarios.
  • Research, build and deploy a wide variety of ships, submarines, artillery, infantry, tanks, armored vehicles, fighters and bombers. Also research tactics like maneuver warfare, hedgehog defense and amphibious assaults to give your forces bonuses.
  • Decide how much of your production is used to generate wealth, stockpile arms, build military units, conduct research, or construct more factories.
  • Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research.

Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition is a World War 2 strategy game that divides players, with some praising its intelligent AI and design variability while others find it tedious, overly complex, and frustratingly restrictive in how nations can develop historically. Common complaints center on obtuse mechanics, poor accessibility compared to similar games like Hearts of Iron, and a rigid historical framework that limits player agency and experimentation. Players seem split on whether it's worth purchasing.

Not recommended Aug 23, 2026
Basically took the worst parts of Hearts of Iron, and made it even worse. Not a fun game, not easy to understand, and very tedious and boring to play. The only upside is the combat being easier to understand than HoI, but past that, it's still pretty bad.
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Recommended May 26, 2026
interesting but strange
Not recommended May 18, 2026
For a game named Making History, you are surprisingly constrained by the historical path of your chosen nation. Want to conquer the world as Iceland? Well that's just too bad cause you'll never actually be able to progress.
Recommended Mar 26, 2026
great WW2 strategy game
Recommended Oct 31, 2025
Very well designed. A lot of variability between plays. AI seems to be reasonably intelligent.
Recommended Sep 2, 2025
BEST GAME EVER

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