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Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Muzzy Lane · Strategy First · 2007-03-13

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 03, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

<p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.

3
playing now
79%
positive of 632 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

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

Making History: The Calm & The Storm is a World War II grand strategy video game released in March 2007 by developer Muzzy Lane. Similar in ways to the popular board games Axis & Allies and Risk, Making History is turn-based with basic industrial, economic, resource, research and diplomatic management included. The game was released as Strategic War Command in Germany.

Health check

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  • · Top 42% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 632 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GamersGate$0.80-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.37 at GamersGate (2021-03-16) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.49 · on sale 29 of 50 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$5.37$0.372015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-10-05 — best price $1.242016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $0.492018-01-13 — best price $4.642018-04-23 — best price $4.992018-08-02 — best price $4.992019-01-17 — best price $0.502019-08-29 — best price $0.752020-02-21 — best price $4.992020-06-03 — best price $3.662020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-08-09 — best price $4.992020-09-07 — best price $4.492020-10-13 — best price $4.992020-11-10 — best price $4.492020-12-08 — best price $3.662021-01-18 — best price $4.992021-02-17 — best price $4.992021-03-20 — best price $4.992021-04-19 — best price $4.992021-05-22 — best price $4.042021-06-26 — best price $4.042021-09-03 — best price $0.952021-11-01 — best price $4.492021-12-10 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-05-17 — best price $3.662022-08-09 — best price $3.662022-12-13 — best price $0.852023-03-18 — best price $4.992023-08-14 — best price $4.992023-12-18 — best price $3.992024-04-18 — best price $3.992024-09-30 — best price $3.992025-04-03 — best price $0.792025-09-26 — best price $3.992026-04-07 — best price $0.802026-08-12 — best price $0.792026-08-21 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1812026-05-30 — 7 pageviews2026-06-02 — 8 pageviews2026-06-05 — 6 pageviews2026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 12 pageviews2026-06-20 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-02 — 12 pageviews2026-07-05 — 8 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 6 pageviews2026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 9 pageviews2026-07-20 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-29 — 4 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 10 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-13 — 6 pageviews2026-08-16 — 6 pageviews2026-08-19 — 10 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

ActionStrategyHistoricalTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayerWorld War IIGrand StrategyTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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