Twilight Struggle
Playdek, Inc. · 2016 · Board Game, Strategy, Tabletop, Wargame, Cold War
PC
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About Twilight Struggle
✦ AI summary
Battle for global supremacy during the Cold War as the US or USSR, using historical events and political influence to outmaneuver your opponent across a dynamic world map. Every game plays differently thanks to a vast deck of authentic Cold War incidents, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam, keeping you on edge in this tense strategy experience.
Twilight Struggle is a strategy game set in the Cold War that presents new and different challenges with every game session. The game map is a world map of the period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. The playable events in the game cover a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1948 and 1967, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and other such incidents that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Play as the US or USSR during the Cold War and change the course of history.
Highlights
• Events found in the game are actual events that occurred during the Cold War.
• Full asynchronous support for multiplayer online games.
Play as the US or USSR during the Cold War and change the course of history.
Highlights
• Events found in the game are actual events that occurred during the Cold War.
• Full asynchronous support for multiplayer online games.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Good reproduction of the board game. Easy to understand. A little hard to learn.1 found this helpful
great strategy game and the video adaptation is ok
good
Definitely recommended if you're a fan of the board game - it's a faithful recreation of the rules, keeps the visual style and even augments it with some nice ambient effects and iconic Cold War quotes in the audio. I used this to learn the rules and basic strats so I could give my brother a decent game and it served well for that purpose. There is a serviceable AI opponent that will keep you entertained for a few games when you're starting out - although experienced players will need to give it a big handicap (think 80s chess engines, iykyk). After that you can try a real opponent - in 2026 you can still find a small but friendly community in the lobby with games going at most times, although you might not be able to pick and choose level/variant/time control unless you're prepared to wait around a bit. The UI is intuitive enough but not the most polished - expected to be frustrated by an all-or-nothing undo button that takes you all the way back to you last committal action, a hand that keeps rearranging itself despite your best efforts to put it in a sensible order, and a defcon suicide warning that will set your nerves a-jangling with false positives. But none of this rea…
Just got my first victory against AI, and boy I tell ya it was a close call. Maybe it's because i'm new to the game, but through round 1 to 5 i always lagged behind. Entering the middle phase the AI just starts gunning coup attempt left and right, lowering the defcon level. I won by sheer points by the end of turn 10. P.S. the sub is quite OP, Ceaucescu's final speech occasionally buzzed in, and for the record, the AI CAN fail the dice roll, it's just depends on luck/your influence in the country it occurs.
Hands down the best boardgame I've played (out of many). Requires long-term planning, guile and nerve while remaining fast-paced and accessible.
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