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Cuban Missile Crisis cover art

Cuban Missile Crisis

G5 Software · Fulqrum Publishing · 2015-03-25

SteamEpic Games Store

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 06, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.

2
playing now
75%
positive of 290 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.3k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 290 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.53 at Gamer Thor (2025-07-18) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 69 of 118 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.60$0.562015-03-252026-08-202015-03-25 — best price $3.992016-03-07 — best price $4.992016-09-26 — best price $2.492017-04-24 — best price $4.992017-11-19 — best price $4.992018-05-08 — best price $4.992018-10-10 — best price $4.492019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-04-22 — best price $0.992019-07-23 — best price $4.992019-12-11 — best price $0.642020-03-26 — best price $0.562020-06-25 — best price $0.742020-09-28 — best price $4.992020-12-25 — best price $4.992021-03-17 — best price $0.632021-06-18 — best price $3.662021-09-24 — best price $0.642021-12-04 — best price $4.992022-03-04 — best price $4.992022-05-27 — best price $4.992022-08-11 — best price $4.992022-11-21 — best price $0.642023-02-02 — best price $3.922023-05-01 — best price $4.342023-08-07 — best price $0.642023-10-22 — best price $0.742023-12-27 — best price $0.752024-03-22 — best price $3.922024-06-17 — best price $0.592024-09-27 — best price $0.752025-01-04 — best price $4.992025-03-26 — best price $0.742025-06-30 — best price $0.682025-08-31 — best price $4.102025-11-02 — best price $4.462025-12-12 — best price $0.752026-03-18 — best price $0.752026-06-18 — best price $0.752026-08-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Russian, German, Bulgarian

Player tags

RTSCold WarStrategy

Census log

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

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