Games set during the cold war

There was a time when the two major political superpowers on Earth were at war, but it was a strange kind of war. U.S.A. and the former U.S.S.R. used spies, subterfuge, blockades, political and military influence all over the world to gain power on a global scale. The so called "Cold War" era lasted decades and ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall. Games set in the cold war often include espionage and strategy elements.

Most popular cold war games

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

vehicle simulationDOS

Code-name: Iceman

adventureDOS

Nuclear War

strategyDOS

Cold war games

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688 Attack Sub

DOS19894/5 Electronic Arts
B-1 Nuclear Bomber

DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill
Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition

Windows 3.x1989freeware4.1/5 Mindscape

Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition is a geopolitical strategy game developed by Chris Crawford and released in 1985. It is considered a classic in the genre of political and strategic simulation games. The game is set during the height of the Cold War, specifically in 1986, and it allows players to step into the shoes of either the United Stat...
Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5 Time Warp Software
Border Zone

DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS19934/5 Strategic Visions
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

DOS19914.2/5 Electronic Arts
Code-name: Iceman

DOS19894/5 Sierra On-Line
Command HQ

DOS19904/5 Ozark Softscape
Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected4.3/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Crisis in the Kremlin

DOS1991protected4/5 Spectrum Holobyte
Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5
Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.7/5 Activision
Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Megafortress

DOS1991protected4/5 Artech Studios
MiG-29M Super Fulcrum

DOS19893.9/5 Simbiosis Interactive
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter

DOS1991protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Nuclear War

DOS19894.1/5 New World Computing

Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Power Struggle

DOS19883.5/5 Personal Software Services
Red sky at morning

DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada
Red Storm Rising

DOS19894/5 MicroProse Software
Rush'n Attack

DOS19894/5 Konami
S.D.I.

DOS19893.9/5 Cinemaware
Shadow President

DOS19934.1/5 DC true
Solidarnosc

DOS19913.4/5 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
Strike Fleet

DOS19894/5 LucasArts
The Cardinal of the Kremlin

DOS19903.9/5 Capstone

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an abandoned simulation game involving espionage, politics and govern management set in the cold war years. It was designed by Kenneth Rothschild, developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp in 1990 for DOS and Amiga. The Cardinal of the Kremlin was based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name.
The Fourth Protocol

DOS19874/5 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Grandest Fleet

DOS19944.2/5 Quantum quality productions
The Hunt for Red October

DOSMac19874.1/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises