About the Game
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War is a global real-time political strategy game where you take command of the USSR in its final decade. Shape the fate of your nation as you manage critical elements like the economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy, or wield your influence through proxy wars to expand your reach.
Immerse yourself in both historical and alternate-history events, making pivotal decisions that will guide the USSR down various paths—from reigniting the flame of socialism to embracing Western democracy. With dozens of complex endings, every choice brings you closer to your unique vision for the USSR.
Crisis in the Kremlin offers a richly detailed simulation, where the fate of a superpower rests in your hands. Will you preserve the union or forge a new future?

PERESTROIKA - CONTINUATION OF OCTOBER
Crisis... Crisis has caught up with the Motherland of the Revolution and lurks in its very heart - the Kremlin.
The Soviet Union has stood still for too long, and now many different circumstances, groups and people are pushing it to change. Some see the future in a return to the past, some in cautious reforms, and some want radical change. The Crisis has taken deep roots in Kremlin towers, and the lurking traitors are just waiting for their moment in the spotlight.
Where will the blow of the Cheka officer's punitive sword be directed this time? Where will the knight of the Party in red armour point his finger? And where will the foot of the entire Soviet people step? Greatness? Communism? Reforms? Collapse?
Take command of the Soviet Union in the new, updated Crisis in the Kremlin. Lead the country through the most difficult times. Conduct scientific research, manage finances to bring the USSR out of a prolonged political crisis. Carry out social reforms, introduce free elections or, alternatively, roll back any liberal endeavours: fine-tuning legislation is in your hands. Make friends with the Western world or confront the US and bring about its collapse, follow the unusual path of neo-imperialism or carve your own path: "Crisis in the Kremlin" opens up huge prospects for you.

TO WORK SO THAT COMRADE STALIN WOULD SAY THANK YOU
Here you will be able to:
Try on the chair of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee
Start and successfully carry out Perestroika or not even to start it
Reorganise the USSR, build the legendary OGAS or establish a united world state
Bring about the world communist revolution dreamed of by the classics of Marxism-Leninism
Build a proper capitalism that will leave competitors from the West and East far behind
Fine-tune the laws of the Soviet Union, creating an entirely new state
Create your dream country or turn it into your nightmare
Control the state budget
Reach new scientific heights: build the Soviet Internet, continue the space race and win it, conquer the Moon and Mars
Conduct diplomacy with the whole world: hostility or friendship with the West, China and dozens of other states
Revive former states, liberate small peoples around the world, or create brand new unprecedented countries
Interfere in the course of international events and world history itself
Repress, reform, proclaim, intervene, perform, break and build....
Screenshots
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
NEW
Each right mouse button action can have its own keys: RMB, mouse wheel press or Z
A pinned tooltip can be closed with the chosen key, and the tooltip says which one
Notifications can be turned off one by one in the settings
Highlighting in doctrine diagrams can be turned off
If a mod fails to load, only that mod is disabled and the reason is shown in a window
In the mod tool: the conditions «Player country» and «Player country is not», a custom name for the player's country, Soviet and American military bases
BALANCE
Shelepin's group can be rehabilitated under the Stalin cult as well
Success of the rapprochement with China needs an Orientalist with diplomacy of 5 or more as Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Council of Ministers or Second Secretary
The popular vote and electoral votes in US elections are now plausible and match each other
TRANSPARENCY
A politician's characteristic tooltip shows experience, its monthly gain and the months left to the next level
A politician's stress is shown on their portrait
FIXES
Fixed a crash when a country was automatically invited into the Warsaw Pact
Fixed monthly errors when playing as another country in mod starts
The Angola aid event no longer comes when every kind of aid has already been given
NEW
The doctrine transition system has been completely reworked: a doctrine's values now smoothly flow into the next one's instead of the usual debuffs.
Added new impulses for the answer options "Revival of the JAO" and "Anti-Zionist campaign".
TRANSPARENCY
A new income-by-type window that, on hover, shows where income flows from and into which income category.
BALANCE
Liberal democrats and informal socialists can now introduce gender equality on par with reformists and moderates.
In countries with elections, when radical parties win, the resulting regime now depends on the world situation and can lead to different regimes in different circumstances.
FIXES
Fixed incorrect impulse values for the CPSU Program and the End of the Cold War.
Fixed zero populations in some regions.
The patch includes:
- [p align="start"]Balance changes to the Nuclear Specialist trait for the Minister of Defense.
- [p align="start"]The US now seeks to implement the Internet more willingly.
- [p align="start"]Numerous bug fixes.
The update includes:
Patch 1.1.0.1 includes:
[p align="start"]- Starting profit is now +9 (as it should have been originally, sorry for forgetting to do that).[p align="start"]- Improved labor shortage.[p align="start"]- Bug fixes.[p align="start"][p align="start"]Enjoy the game and thank you for reporting the issues!The patch includes significant improvements to economic flexibility:
[p align="start"]- The United States now looks at government regimes in Eastern Europe, the status of these countries, and your COMECON doctrine;[p align="start"]- Debuffs to KGB loyalty for investments in computer technology have been reduced;[p align="start"]- Reduced industrial growth from investments in nuclear technology;[p align="start"]- Completely removed the minimum IPI requirement for investments in the economy;[p align="start"]- Added investment requirements in economic sectors for investments in science;[p align="start"]- Reduced service sector growth from investments in civil technology;[p align="start"][p align="start"]We are listening to you!
The patch includes:
Reduction of IPM requirements from 200% to 125%
Weakening of the NATO Technology Embargo by 3 times
Increase in the upper limit of VAT
Bug fixes
Thank you for your feedback! We are striving to make the game better!
The update includes:
[p align="start"]- Displaying faction desires in doctrines via icons;[p align="start"]- More understandable text in the war window buttons;[p align="start"]- New achievement;[p align="start"]- Bug fixes;[p align="start"]Enjoy the game!
Update 1.0.7.01 includes:
[p align="start"]- The effects of doctrine transitions are now different and have a parabolic shape. Initially, they will be weak and will gradually increase towards the middle of the term, and then begin to fall again to zero.[p align="start"]- Doctrine changes triggered by events that have a transitional type will now use a long transition instead of a quick one.[p align="start"][p align="start"]We always listen to you. In return, we ask you to recommend our games to your friends.[p align="start"]Thank you for being with us!The behavior of the “version” field in “info.json” has been changed. The “minVersion” and “maxVersion” fields have been added. Now you can specify the range of versions on which your mod will work so that it does not disappear with minor game updates.
Detailed information is available in the guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wx7_-HlL8xuPqtkEl89RhNqg5gvJyfTcA2CWuVnNQic/edit?usp=sharing
Patch includes:
Major bugs fixed
New information window about errors
Thank you for staying with us!
1. Balancing Gromyko
2. Fix Chernenko bug
3. Links to positions
4. Minor re-balance
5. Fixing minor bugs
Thanks for being with us!
Current Release
Build 25734295
Uploaded Oct 14, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
CrisisInTheKremlin2.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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