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China: Mao's legacy

Nostalgames · 2019-05-24

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 24, 2019 (Mac), May 24, 2019 (Linux), May 24, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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...

3
playing now
91%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 25% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,049 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.79 at Steam (2021-07-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1102026-08-11 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$2.792019-05-252026-07-132019-05-25 — best price $6.992019-07-10 — best price $6.292019-10-28 — best price $5.592019-12-19 — best price $4.892020-01-23 — best price $4.192020-06-25 — best price $3.842020-10-29 — best price $3.492020-12-22 — best price $3.142021-02-11 — best price $3.142021-06-24 — best price $3.142021-08-30 — best price $2.792021-11-24 — best price $2.792022-01-06 — best price $2.792022-06-23 — best price $2.792022-10-15 — best price $2.792022-12-22 — best price $2.792023-03-16 — best price $2.792023-07-14 — best price $2.792023-10-15 — best price $2.792023-12-21 — best price $2.792024-03-14 — best price $2.792024-06-27 — best price $2.792024-10-28 — best price $2.792024-12-19 — best price $2.792025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-06-27 — best price $2.792025-09-29 — best price $2.792025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-06-06 — best price $2.792026-07-13 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
9.4%
earned "Saṃsāra"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing7 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2050%204

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

Player tags

RPGCRPGIndieCold WarPoliticsStrategyNonlinearPoliticalManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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