A War of a Madman's Making

A War of a Madman's Making

Witching Metal Prod. · March 8, 2024 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Visual Novel, War

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About A War of a Madman's Making

This is A War of a Madman's Making: A combination of Visual Novel and text-based RPG centered around war planning and political survival, inspired by games like Suzerain and Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa.

War of a Madman's Making is set in a fictional world where nuclear escalation has blackened the skies. You are a citizen who has been mysteriously called up to serve as Field Marshal of the Great Leader's army. Through a combination of resource management, political maneuvering, and strategic military planning, you must survive the impending war - and the purges and assassinations that will come along with it.

You have the freedom to be ruthless in your methods, but doing so too freely could have consequences - particularly if you face a tribunal for crimes against humanity. However, mismanage your resources pursuing nobler causes, and you'll find a similar fate at the hands of your beloved Great Leader.

Rein in the disaster, protect your family, and survive the purges.

Features
  • ~70k word story with 5 major endings.
  • Resource management. Maintain a military budget, popularity with the Leader's cabinet, and favor with the Great Leader himself.
  • Choose your allies and enemies. Scheme amongst the Leader's staff or even against the Leader himself.
  • Manipulate your reports when you must give bad news to the Great Leader, but be careful not to push your luck.
  • Retro-style soundtrack by Borealis (Shirli Ainsworth) full of tense overtures and bombastic battle themes.
  • An encyclopaedia filled with lore and character details - including nuggets that an astute player will find useful.

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A War of a Madman's Making — game info

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

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Sep 2, 2026
A very... interesting, short experience in what I've taken to calling the 'Soviet/Dictatorship Nightmare Simulator' minigenre of games, stuff like this game, Papers Please, and the Beholder series. These game's can be measured on how well they sell the horrible desperation of their protagonists in my eyes, and War of a Madman's Making does it quite well. Not ordinarily my kind of game, and not enjoyable exactly, but if you are in the right headspace, very enriching.
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Recommended Aug 24, 2026
I know 3 countries in Eastern Europe that are exactly like this today.
Recommended Aug 19, 2026
This game Is great. I played for a wile and there are multiple engaging endings to play. If you like the Challenge of wartime politics than this game will be very fun to play. 10/10
Recommended Aug 19, 2026
The writing is quite good and not without its humor. If you can stomach rough graphics and some not too great music (which you can mute) give this a try. My playtime is misleading since I'd lost internet connection while playing (for hours).
Recommended Aug 9, 2026
I would have paid money to play this game
Recommended Jul 19, 2026
Very cool with a great mood, a fun and interesting game.

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