Crisis in the Kremlin
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in October 2018. It has been discounted 78 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, China: Mao's legacy ($6.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Plutocracy ($24.99, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 393 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 282 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 5.0 times as long.
The drop-off
9% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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NEVER. have i ever played the most fun game yet infuriating, NEVER, have i ever played a game so good yet so bad, NEVER have i played the easiest game yet hardest, i still love this game 8/10
Although the review is negative, I would like to preface by saying that the game is very interesting and I quite enjoy its premise. As the title suggests, in this game you make decisions about economic, political, and diplomatic policy in the late USSR, hopefully avoiding the historical collapse of the union as a result of you strategic thinking and wise decision making ability. It is the mark of an interesting...
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Cite this score
Crisis in the Kremlin scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/599750/crisis-in-the-kremlinReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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