China: Mao's legacy
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $2.18/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX10 (shader model 4.0), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...
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 $2.79, set in July 2021. 59 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Crisis in the Kremlin ($4.99, scores 67) and Democracy 4 ($29.99, scores 61), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 220 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
3.2 hours to finish it, 250 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 78 times the campaign.
The drop-off
9% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 3.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
OST is fairly good and inmmersive and is really inmmersive as someone who enjoys this kind of polsims. The graphics are meh, but it even gives a vibe. I prob overpaid for it with all dlcs, still quite enjoyable
The game is fun to play once you get a hang of it. After a 6-5 year hiatus I've began to get back into this game. I like the very "indie" appearance and the challenge of the game. Would recommend. Also read some guides on the game too!
One of the best games I've ever played. It takes itself siriously and is surprisingly a very historicly educational video game. The gameplay is engaging and really sucks you in. The sheer amount of player choice to build the world you want is something I wish more video games had. You can pretty much make china, and the greater world, into whatever political system you wish (thinking realisticly of course)...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
China: Mao's legacy scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/950740/china-mao-s-legacyReviews 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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