Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Muzzy Lane · March 13, 2007 · Strategy, Action, Grand Strategy, World War II, Turn-Based Strategy

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Making History: The Calm & the Storm price by region

Making History: The Calm & the Storm costs £0.34 in the United Kingdom, €0.36 in Europe (EUR), $0.45 in the United States, $2.69 in Georgia (USD), CA$4.94 in Canada, A$5.95 in Australia, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand, R$13.79 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Making History: The Calm & the Storm offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.34 −90% £3.39 £0.34 5
Europe (EUR) €0.36 −77% €1.59 €0.36 14
United Statesyour region $0.45 −72% $1.59 $0.45 13
Georgia (USD) $2.69 $2.69 — 1
Canada CA$4.94 −10% CA$4.94 — 2
Australia A$5.95 −10% A$5.95 — 2
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$13.79 R$13.79 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

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About Making History: The Calm & the Storm

<p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.</p>
<p>The game drops you into a rich WWII world where every nation has its own agenda, and where events can turn on a single alliance. Work with your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses. Build up your industry, infrastructure, economy, military. Create alliances. Then reshape your strategy as the world evolves with each turn.</p>
<ul>
<li><span class="copyHead">Rich WWII world:</span> MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.</li>
<li><span class="copyHead">You are your Nation:</span> Jump into a world in motion where every nation is pursuing its own agenda, and where events can turn on the breaking of a single alliance. Devise strategies based on your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses' and revise your plans as the world evolves in response to your actions. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Multi-Turn Combat:</span> An innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all affect your battle plan. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">More Military Options:</span> Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force. With scientific research you can unlock more advanced military units, and every unit features a detailed 3D model. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Sophisticated World Economy:</span> The game's economic system models the connections between world power and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Powerful Alliance System:</span> As you make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each action affects your relations with other nations, and their willingness to ally with you. If you lack strong allies, you may find other nations are more are more likely to attack. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Historic Scenarios:</span> Six scenarios let you start at a crucial historic moment, focus on a specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis and more, and each is based on detailed research. You can work to succeed where others failed, or take a different path and see what happens. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Superb replayability:</span> Each scenario drops you into a different firestorm. Each nation you play presents unique challenges. Everything evolves from your economic and military choices, the alliances you make, and the actions and reactions of the world's other nations. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Single and Multiplayer Turn-Based Gameplay:</span> Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play is quick and responsive, and keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight others in multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and secret pacts. Will you be a trusted ally or a backstabbing tyrant? </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Built for Modding:</span> Use included Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own. </li></ul>

Making History: The Calm & the Storm — 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.

Recommended Jul 12, 2026
It's a simple and fun game.
Recommended Jul 8, 2026
New York styled Pizza: Pizza dough: 14 g instant yeast 617g water - 95F 950g all-purpose flour 19g fine sea salt 25g granulated sugar American Pizza Sauce and Toppings: 1 tablespoon (14g) butter 1 tablespoon (9g) extra virgin olive oil 6 cloves garlic, rough chopped 2 teaspoons (4g) red pepper flakes 28 oz (794g) can of crushed tomato 2 teaspoons (2g) dried oregano 1.5 tablespoons (21g) granulated sugar salt and pepper to taste Splash of olive oil 2 cups (227g) low moisture mozzarella, fresh grated 2 cups (200g) Monterey jack cheese, fresh grated 1/2 cup (26g) parmigiano reggiano, fresh grated American Pizza Dough: Preheat the oven and a baking steel or pizza stone at 500F for 45 minutes before utilizing it. Whisk yeast and sugar into your water, and allow it to sit for 5 minutes. In a separate bowl, add flour and salt and mix by hand to combine. Pour your water mixture into your flour and mix by hand until you get a rough dough, then transfer to a work surface and knead until it starts to pull away from the work surface and is relatively smooth. Place your dough in a greased bowl, then cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 - 2 hours at room temperature …
Recommended May 21, 2026
Making History: The Calm & The Storm, developed by Muzzy Lane and published by Strategy First, is a grand strategy title that explores one of history’s most turbulent periods through large-scale political, military, and economic simulation. Focused on the years surrounding the Second World War, the game places players into positions of national leadership where success depends not only on battlefield victories but on careful management of diplomacy, industry, resources, and international influence. Rather than treating war as a series of isolated military conflicts, the game attempts to capture the broader systems that shape global events, creating a strategic experience built around planning and long-term thinking. The scale immediately stands out as one of the game’s defining strengths. Players are not limited to controlling only the major powers commonly associated with World War II. While nations such as Germany, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan naturally occupy central roles within historical scenarios, the game allows players to guide many countries through one of history’s most unstable eras. This flexibility creates tremendous replay value…
Recommended Mar 29, 2026
LINUX Reviewer: Technically, it fails to start, but fixable with a patch. During gameplay works flawlessly without issues detected.
Not recommended Dec 26, 2025
Some people may like this but, I found the game play to be boring and dull. If you're looking for strategic military gameplay, try somewhere else.
Recommended Dec 14, 2025
Played this years ago and doubt I'd get into it today. However, if you're up for a WWII simulator that felt pretty unique back in the 2000s, this might be worth it on sale.

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