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Cold War
Developer Mindware Studios
Cold War is a 2005 stealth video game developed by the Czech developer Mindware Studios, and published by DreamCatcher Games (Runesoft for Mac OS X and Linux Game Publishing for Linux). The game is similar to the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series of games in that it uses a stealth-action system of gameplay. The game distinguishes itself by adding an item invention system where the player can use seemingly useless… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
312 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
81 positive · 40 negative
95% range 58–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 13 | 4 | 122 |
| Steam reviews | 81 | 40 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
87 of 131 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 81 yes, 40 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 121 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (210 of 303 positive).
Players describe Cold War as a dated but fun stealth game reminiscent of early Splinter Cell. [1][2][3] Some praise its creative gadget crafting and engaging story, while others find it tedious and buggy. [4][5][6] Many note the game lacks modern features like widescreen support and autosave. [2][5][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
The story was nice. The gameplay however becomes tedious very quickly. Wanted to play this for the stealth, but after the new experience factor wore off, the stealth became a slog. By the end, I didn't care anymore and just murdered everyone who got in my way (both because stealthing was torture and also because the game forces you). All in all, a mediocre experience.
- [16]
Frustrating pile of garbage. At best its an average stealth game, At worst its a terrible over the shoulder shooter. I can't recommend this game unless you are a big stealthis/spy junky, and even then don't spend more than a few bucks. The game starts off pretty well with stealth missions, but then dumps tons of nonsense on you. You go from decent stealth missions, to poorly made missions where you are under a timer …
- [1]
It's no bad game. Like maybe 6.5-7/10. But be aware that it's way outdated (made in 2005), and even then it wasn't able to compete with Splinter Cell. Why buy it? Well, it's cheap, and it's a spy-story stealth game. You can pass without killing, by fabricating your own devices like rubber bullets, silencers, and ether mines from junk and using a cool x-ray camera to look behind, well, almost everything. Oh, if you …
- [3]
Cold War is a great surprise. With mixed Steam reviews I expected a lot worse. It is essentially like the early Splinter Cell games, but with wider maps and many more gadgets to use at your disposal. I read many complaints about this game that it features a lot of backtracking. It is true, however the game keeps introducing new mechanics/scenarios or make a twist on the objectives that even though you are navigating …
- [12]
Surprisingly good stealth based old school Splinter Style game. I hate how many modern stealth based games have "fluid movement mechanics" and that honestly sucks. I like to take things slow and steady in a stealth game and this is what this is. Notice how older games don't have yellow paint splattered everywhere as way point markers? You have to pay attention to audio chatter and actually read the progression log …
Summarised from 34 of the 239 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Cold War talk about creative gadget crafting system; those who didn't talk about outdated graphics and no widescreen support. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC and Xbox versions received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The Linux version received more positive reviews, with Phoronix stating the game was "truly phenomenal" and that it's "one of the best single-player shooters we have ever played on Linux." LinuxGames awarded it 8.5 out of 10, commenting that the game was "the most enjoyable Linux gaming experience of 2006 so far."
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 312 · most liked firstAnyway. Congratulations to Russia on winning the Cold War. The long game worked.
neutral · AI labelView post →🇺🇸 Kellogg: This is not the Russia, the Soviet Union, that I knew in the middle of the Cold War. This is a different Russia. They talk a big game but I would be very worried if I was Putin. Putin sometimes rattles about his nuclear weapons, the US, UK and France are nuclear powers too.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's no bad game. Like maybe 6.5-7/10. But be aware that it's way outdated (made in 2005), and even then it wasn't able to compete with Splinter Cell. Why buy it? Well, it's cheap, and it's a spy-story stealth game. You can pass without killing, by fabricating your own devices like rubber bullets, silencers, and ether mines from junk and using a cool x-ray camera to look behind, well, almost everything. Oh, if you remember the old James Bond game, Nightfire - sorry, it's not That cool. Just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Command and Conquer may be the perfect '90s game. Its main influences were Dune and the Gulf War. It has those post-Cold War brainworms about Europe and it feels like what happens when NATO has to fight Goreans. Completely alien now, like finding a T-shirt of Bart Simpson bombing Bagdhad.
neutral · AI labelView post →#CallOfDuty Black Ops: Cold War cost $700M to make 💰 The biggest game budget ever disclosed (via Game File)
neutral · AI labelView post →Bill Skarsgård will star in Hideo Kojima's new action-espionage game ‘Physint’ 🎮 The game's tagline is ‘the next Cold War begins’
neutral · AI labelView post →Canteen Kurt flexing his Cold War certificate of recognition. 2 can play that game!
neutral · AI labelView post →being purely in it for the love of the game (evil), the minions would have avoided being pinned down on any side of the Cold War. the minions were part of the non-aligned movement and had a home base in Yugoslavia, worked primarily for Tito
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a weird space in James Bond pastiches between "full Cold War paranoia" and "guy with volcano lair building planet-busting superweapons for pure love of the game" where the superweapon guy IS working for a nefarious foreign power, but, like, apparently they didn't know about the superweapon?
neutral · AI labelView post →It *is* extremely weird to be playing a game that still believes in like... "respectable" nationstate spycraft of the Cold War kind, plausible deniability, subterfuge, and things like diplomatic crises being very important in the middle of 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →The West used to play dirty – and during the Cold War, we were good at it. Nowadays, we leave grey-zone tactics and hybrid warfare to Russia, which is winning the disinformation war.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have to confess, this game was just a ridiculous amount of fun. It felt like I was interacting in a cheesy spy novel, and it did a good job at it. Well, this is a third person stealth/action shooter. The first six to eight levels are more stealth oriented, but once the Russion Special Forces, (spetsnaz) are sent after you, you can pretty much kiss stealth goodbye. It's all shooting from there. It implements a system where you can collect gadgets lying around like rags, alarm clocks, plastic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game my friends and I spent 8 years working on outside work is finally done! We're proud to present COLD CALLING, a real time puzzle game where you man the White House switchboard during a satirical, alternate history Cold War. #indiegame #alternatehistory #comedygame #majorupdate
neutral · AI labelView post →Russia played the long game on the Cold War. The confederacy played the long game on the Civil War. So many long games being played.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a really fun time interviewing Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop RPGs from the Cold War and what they reflect about shifts in Cold War nuclear culture, and the differences between how the games were designed and how they were actually played. doomsdaymachines.net/p/playing-at...
neutral · AI labelView post →Cold War is a 2005 made, parodic stealth action game. It is some kind of 3rd person view No One Lives Forever with hand-made gadgets which starring a journalist. It was really good first. I even planned to recommend it to you, but then, i got bored because of some problems and changed my mind. There are some summarized pros. and cons. below: Pros + Story is interesting enough + Graphics are already outdated but it isn't ugly at all. + Some unique attractions like gadget crafting and X-Ray…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good news everyone! Wyrd Science issue 7 is @drivethrurpg.com's DEAL OF THE DAY! for 24 hours get a massive 60 (sixty!) % off the latest, best issue of the world's greatest tabletop game magazine! From Cold War RPGs to Warhammer's Rick Priestly, the Caves of Qud to Castle Rat, it's a banger!
neutral · AI labelView post →West German housing estate, 1980’s. To be used in my next Cold War game this Saturday. There are three pieces and these can be placed to create lots of different setups, or used individually. #wargames #shedowar #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →And there isn't even the great game logic Cold War rationalization to back "our guys" over the Soviets, if anything the Israelis are ambivalent at best when it comes to the next global superpower cold conflict
neutral · AI labelView post →Jamming on a 3rd button that kills all libertarians + ghost libertarians haunting the minds of people who pose anti humanity thought experiments pregnant with the false emotion killing science of statistics, and I hit it so hard it retroactively kills John Nash and every Cold War game theory ghoul
neutral · AI labelView post →This beautiful, funny & thoughtful #adventure game by @traindetective.bsky.social unexpectedly revealed a personal connection to my childhood past in the Cold War era ... Here's my review! 🙋♀️ Guaranteed spoiler-free. youtu.be/P5Ms8lZiPR4
neutral · AI labelView post →ok but a Twilight Struggle game that was about vampires in the Cold War would actually be awesome
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't think the Cold War actually ended. They were just playing the long game, and now they're gaining ground again.
neutral · AI labelView post →It really is the best word for this. A nation that defeated fascism during WW2 and won the Cold War, only to be felled by a game show host and parking lot lawyer. Humiliating.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cold War 1985. After yesterday’s game I decided to make some multi bases for my Hind helicopters. I think these look better than a single model on table. #shedowar #wargaming #wargames
neutral · AI labelView post →Got a free month of game pass from something and call of duty Cold War unfortunately does seem to sort of have the original juice of the original black ops in that it’s totaly insane. hell yeah my US born ex-KGB operative is non-binary. I’m sure there will be some insane twist too.
positive · AI labelView post →It doesn’t really make much difference but it’s part of the one-upmanship game of nuclear weapons deployments and counter deployments that beset the Cold War. It just makes the importance of the British & French deterrents even more important.
neutral · AI labelView post →decades of Cold War psychosis made liberals the only game in town and we will continue to pay the price as long as we let all these fucking capitalists keep their imperial enrichment machine afloat
neutral · AI labelView post →“Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to revive the Soviet Union, but two can play this game. To complete the Kremlin’s grotesque historical reenactment, the West should launch a new economic Cold War in response,” writes Roman Sulzhyk, a former JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank executive.
neutral · AI labelView post →The gripping tale of a wizard photographer in Soviet-era Russia where everyone has severe hearing issues. It's an okay throwback to the original Splinter Cell games and, if you can get over the ridiculous abilities of the main character, it's pretty fun. Oh, and there's no autosave, so be aware of that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →26) Class Struggle. Briefly popular board game designed by a Marxist professor at NYU and published by Avalon Hill in 1978. Terribly designed game but interesting if you want to see a specific slice of intellectual delusions during the Cold War. If the capitalists win, nuclear war. Commies, utopia
neutral · AI labelView post →After the state of this game not only should Argentina never mention the Falklands again Buenos Aires should also be partitioned like Cold War Berlin with the good half run by Cabo Verde.
neutral · AI labelView post →An overview of New Cold War, the upcoming board game of global geopolitical power from Vuca Sims: youtu.be/Llf6EEiuQsE #boardwargames #boardgames @vucasimulations.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Chicago folks really showed up for some historical board game action at the Indie Game Showcase yesterday! Here’s me looking goofy and exhausted after eight straight hours of demoing and nattering on about social movements and Cold War politics… #BoardGames #CIGS
neutral · AI labelView post →Nintendo announces new Donkey Kong game, DKULTRA, about a secret Cold War program which sought to brainwash and control Donkey Kongs through LSD
neutral · AI labelView post →Heavy Metal Death Can is a retro survival horror set on a Cold War–era submarine - now on Linux #IndieGames #Survival #Horror #Linux
neutral · AI labelView post →Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered out with a demo and it's open source #ArmaCold #WarAssaultRemastered #Arma #OpenSource #FPS
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Bluesky game is "post your favorite Cold War aircraft", and I'm like
neutral · AI labelView post →As a game developed in 1994 after the Cold War, Kowloon's Gate director Kimura Nakaji felt it was absurd to feature traditional antagonists upsetting the balance of the world "in a time without enemies". The team pressed ahead because "the existence of Kowloon Walled City itself was absurd."
neutral · AI labelView post →Basing frenzy! Last batch of 3mm Cold War being done as part of the game I am putting on at RE Play at the REME Museum this month. #shedowar #wargames #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is really good, especially considering how old it is. The AI's fairly solid (although sometimes they are somewhat blind), and a few parts of the story are a little bit out of place, but overall it's a great game. There are quite a few cool strategic items that can be crafted from basic components, and the maps have plenty of hiding places. Enemies are able to lose you but will work together to corner you at times. The campaign lasted about twelve hours for me, but that includes a lot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cold War memories stir Rubio in Iceland as he champions diplomacy and downplays differences. >Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday sought to reassure NATO ally Iceland that President Donald Trump's administration has no designs on the island but shares its deep concerns about Arctic security as tensions between the United States and Russia rise in the high north and elsewhere.
neutral · AI labelView post →10/10 Putin. This is what you really call playing the long game. They really got they lick back for the Cold War.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Video on the Shed O War YouTube channel. AAR and mutterings after yesterday’s Cold War game. #wargames #wargaming #FFTs #shedowar Fulda Gap 1985. Wargaming the Cold War youtu.be/vhsGM8W4FTc
neutral · AI labelView post →1) 'Gaming America's Cold War' is a final-year undergrad module I'm putting together. The first workshop will be 'What is a game? What is Cold War?'. I keep circling back to Greg Costikyan's essay 'I Have No Words & I Must Design' as an intro to what games are. www.costik.com/nowords2002....
neutral · AI labelView post →You get what you pay for. It's really just a bland version of Splinter Cell with a hilariously cheesy plot. Pay the extra $5 for one of the older Splinter Cells if you want a better game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fascinating presentation about New Cold War, the upcoming geopolitical game from Vuca Sims. SDHistCon rolls on! #boardwargames #boardgames @vucasimulations.bsky.social @sdhistcon.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Naming the evil doctor in this game “Dr. Mikhail Cossack” and then the game coming out only two weeks before the USSR collapses is so funny. Mega Man won the Cold War
neutral · AI labelView post →The Bunker Game started as something I used in my 'The Nuclear Cold War' undergrad module at Edinburgh Uni. Jon has worked some magic on it and turned it into a really cool product. A 'party game' if you think that being a survivor in Threads looks like a fun experience.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cold War 1980s 6mm, game 1. Need buildings! But otherwise looked about right.
neutral · AI labelView post →black ops cold war has had a bug since 2020 where even if you have input icons enabled, they dont show up after you return from a game. it has not been fixed in my 5 years of owning this game (also Black Ops Cold War is as old now as BO3 was when CW came out. i am old)
negative · AI labelView post →First, don't mind my record times. I played it while offline. I give this game 7/10. This game seems to be stealth game but in later levels you can play it like Call of Duty and the stealth system in this game is not good too. The good things about this game are twisted and excited story, many creative tools that you can craft them and I like idea of camera that can use as weapon as well plus the fact that main character is reporter making this idea is very creative.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kojima: "I want to make another Cold War era Metal Gear game." Staff: "We can't legally do that, sir." Kojima: "I'll create a whole new one then." Staff: "A new espionage game?" Kojima: "A new Cold War."
neutral · AI labelView post →Bohemia Interactive just did something very cool for #gamedev. Along side the ARMA Cold War Remastered release they released the modernize C++ game and game engine source code on GitHub. gamefromscratch.com/arma-game-ga...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is awsome it may be little out of date but it plays very well it has an engageing story and a cool comic'esk style for the cut sceens it's stealth system is solid and it has awsome music. now for the stats Gameplay 8/10 the only real problems i have with the gameplay is that it can be hard to place traps in the right spot some times. Visuals 6.5/10 I would like to set this higher but it's was only just par in 05 and it hasent aged well but this mostly comes from the few cut sceens…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're still living with the after effects of some fucking nerds convincing the Cold War World Powers that Chess was some sort of game of great intelligence that would prove which country was be superior. The hold of the World Series of Poker is not so easily forgotten.
neutral · AI labelView post →FEVER The cycle continues. Old meets new in this Cold War inspired game mode, with Holiday features! 🧵 Details on NZ:P's new Game Mode, that is out RIGHT NOW for FTE, below!
neutral · AI labelView post →yes (and it was an iconic mission in the N64 game)! This was the first James Bond movie to release after the Cold War, and I think it had a surprisingly good take on the question 'does the world need James Bond in the '90s?'
neutral · AI labelView post →1) Many British interviewees for my RPGs and the Cold War project commented on Judge Dredd as a tangentially 'Cold War' and post-apocalyptic game. We have the Sov bloc, the Cursed Earth, all that good stuff. However, it's an odd one to try and locate within my book framework
neutral · AI labelView post →2nd game of the day here at Buckeye Game Fest is New Cold War from VUCA Simulations. I have played this game twice and very much enjoy it.
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