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1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact cover art

1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact

Wastelands Interactive · Conglomerate 5 · 2025-03-02

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 11, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.

48%
positive of 194 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 59% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.9k–8.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 194 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.992015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $15.992015-06-11 — best price $9.992015-09-14 — best price $9.992015-11-16 — best price $3.992015-12-22 — best price $3.992016-02-05 — best price $4.992016-05-23 — best price $6.792016-07-25 — best price $6.792016-10-28 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-04-10 — best price $4.992017-07-10 — best price $3.992017-10-26 — best price $3.992017-11-22 — best price $3.992018-01-15 — best price $3.992018-03-19 — best price $4.992018-07-30 — best price $3.992018-10-30 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $3.992018-12-20 — best price $3.992019-02-18 — best price $3.992019-06-10 — best price $2.992019-08-05 — best price $3.992019-10-28 — best price $3.992019-12-04 — best price $3.992020-01-23 — best price $3.992020-03-26 — best price $1.992020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-09-24 — best price $19.992020-11-19 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-02-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

2DWarCombatWargameCold WarHex GridMilitaryStrategyTop-DownTurn-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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