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Calm Down, Stalin cover art

Calm Down, Stalin

Cartboard Games · 2016-09-08

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 08, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Calm Down, Stalin is a game where you directly control your hands to threaten your enemies with nuclear weapons by moving your finger closer to The Button while signing important state papers, answering phone, dealing with your subordinates and fighting the stress of your job by smoking your pipe!

0
playing now
90%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 19% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–69k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,150 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2018-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$1.592016-09-082026-07-092016-09-08 — best price $3.592016-11-23 — best price $3.192016-12-22 — best price $2.792017-05-05 — best price $2.192017-06-22 — best price $2.392017-11-22 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-05-05 — best price $2.192018-06-21 — best price $1.792018-11-21 — best price $1.592018-12-20 — best price $1.592019-06-26 — best price $1.592019-10-28 — best price $1.592019-11-26 — best price $1.592019-12-19 — best price $1.592020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.592021-02-11 — best price $1.592021-06-24 — best price $1.592021-10-28 — best price $2.792021-11-24 — best price $1.992021-12-22 — best price $1.592022-06-23 — best price $1.592022-11-22 — best price $1.992022-12-22 — best price $1.992023-07-05 — best price $1.992023-12-21 — best price $1.592024-03-18 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $1.992024-11-28 — best price $1.992024-12-23 — best price $1.592025-03-15 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.592025-09-30 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.592026-03-22 — best price $1.992026-06-12 — best price $2.392026-06-25 — best price $1.592026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
91%
earned "The Ringin'"
15.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,6415%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyIndieMemesCasualComedyCold WarPoliticsIlluminatiSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.