Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Game
Game2015
Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
Developer G5 Software
Ice Crusade is a stand-alone expansion for post-apocalyptic real time strategy Cuban Missile Crisis. Ice Crusade continues the original story and adds new campaigns, battlegrounds and units. From the Steam store page
69 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
19 positive · 8 negative
95% range 52–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 37 |
| Steam reviews | 19 | 8 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
23 of 32 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
69% recommend · 20 yes, 9 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 29 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (70 of 92 positive).
Players praise the game's blend of real-time tactics with a turn-based operational layer, reminiscent of Blitzkrieg and Total War. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game suffers from dated graphics, poor AI, and repetitive missions. [4][5][6] Fans of the original Cuban Missile Crisis appreciate the new units and snowy setting, but miss removed factions and longer campaigns. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [17]
Don't get me wrong, I would recommend this game if it did not have so many faults. I would still also recommend it if you are really into this kind of thing, and the game is on a strong offer..... eg 75% off or better. This game is indentical to the previous CMC game. Except, obviously, for new scenarios, some new scenery, some new units, but a hell of lot more REMOVED units!!!!! Not ONE of the bugs and faults with …
- [5]
Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade is an older milsim/RTS game where you control a bunch of tanks and things and shoot up the baddies and feel very tacticool about being a military general. Unfortunately this is simply too dated to recommend, with no widescreen support, no 1080p or higher support. The game displays widescreen stretched 4:3. The only gamers who might be interested in this would be for nostalgia …
- [1]
Cuban Missile Crisis runs off of the classic WW2 RTS, Blitzkrieg, which is still a fantastic game. Cuban Missile Crisis, unlike Blitzkrieg, adds a turn-based operational layer that allows players to fight through a dyanmic campaign and deploy 'battle groups' across a theater map. The addition of the operational layer adds a whole new challenge to the game, causing players to wisely deploy battle groups, capture …
- [13]
An old but gold strategy game in my book. This expansion fixed an exploit from the first game and as a result makes this game much more difficult if you used to rely on it. A post-apocalyptic cold-war setting is something I always enjoyed. The music is memorable for me as I know it by heart (along with unit voices). The Soviet Campaign is something I enjoyed the most. And the details about your units in the unit …
- [2]
I love this game. The Single player is a blast! I feel it reminds me of total war with the turn-based system. Your goal is to capture certain facilities on the map that bring in certain resources or other support needs. (Spare parts, fuel, ammo, airbase, radar, etc.) except much more simplifed and obviously in a different universe with tanks, aircraft and infantry! The Single player USA campaign is awesome! Going …
Summarised from 34 of the 70 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 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade sits at 70% positive across 27 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 69 · most liked firstChina just punched back as hard as the US, imposing 84% tariffs on goods from the USA, beginning tomorrow April 10th. This is a game of chicken played with some of the highest stakes ever (second only to the Cuban Missile Crisis?) Feels like it's China's to win. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get me wrong, I would recommend this game if it did not have so many faults. I would still also recommend it if you are really into this kind of thing, and the game is on a strong offer..... eg 75% off or better. This game is indentical to the previous CMC game. Except, obviously, for new scenarios, some new scenery, some new units, but a hell of lot more REMOVED units!!!!! Not ONE of the bugs and faults with the original CMC has been addressed. I'll list those faults:- 1) The English…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only interesting aspect of this and the original game is the alternative history setting. For me it's a good reason to buy this game ... even when it's a terrible game. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792643399 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=791442370
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drawing Wario everyday until there's a new Wario Land game day 1962. 1962 was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis! Wario got tied up in a little bit of an uh... conundrum...
neutral · AI labelView post →Cuban Missile Crisis runs off of the classic WW2 RTS, Blitzkrieg, which is still a fantastic game. Cuban Missile Crisis, unlike Blitzkrieg, adds a turn-based operational layer that allows players to fight through a dyanmic campaign and deploy 'battle groups' across a theater map. The addition of the operational layer adds a whole new challenge to the game, causing players to wisely deploy battle groups, capture enemy resource centers, and counter enemy battle groups. In terms of tactical…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only time for one game this past weekend and taught 1960:The Making of the President to a friend of mine. Was hoping to get this one plus 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Watergate in. Took us longer to play 1960 than I had planned. Had fun though. @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →7) Here's a good example: "I'm working on a role-playing game about the experiences of ordinary American families living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. While I'm familiar with events in general, I'd like to better understand the American societal response, right down to the individual level."
neutral · AI labelView post →I started turning the tide and it was getting really late, so she ironically used "How I Learned to Stop Worrying..." during the Cuban Missile Crisis to coup Angola and end the game in global thermonuclear war.
neutral · AI labelView post →For reference, I do not regret using them. X-men has used their metaphor to talk about current events from Apartheid to the Cuban Missile Crisis to AIDS. What the fuck kinda X-men game would I be if I didn't do the same? But /do/ take care of yourself.
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact that the entire postwar "we built these institutions to Not Have Another World War" order is facing its greatest threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis because a racist game show host can't read a map just makes me want to lie down
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game. The Single player is a blast! I feel it reminds me of total war with the turn-based system. Your goal is to capture certain facilities on the map that bring in certain resources or other support needs. (Spare parts, fuel, ammo, airbase, radar, etc.) except much more simplifed and obviously in a different universe with tanks, aircraft and infantry! The Single player USA campaign is awesome! Going from battlefield to battlefield conquering the airbases, fuel depots, radar…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6) Here's a bad example: "I'm working on a game based on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Can you help me get the details right?" That's less than helpful because there's no indication of what the game is and what it is you need beyond "help" or vaguely defined "details".
neutral · AI labelView post →Short pro and con review, Pros: - good old strategy with the Blitzkrieg engine - a lot of new toys (compared with CMC) - rocket launcher systems .. Cons: - .. which are to strong - every random-fight will be placed on the same map (yes, the same map !)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the 2nd entry in a new series of History Behind the Cards posts focused on Checkpoint Charlie from @gmtgames.bsky.social designed by Russell Brown, we take a look look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. theplayersaid.com/2026/07/09/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lost faith in #Infantino He has sold the beautiful game to a criminal, sex pest who is the biggest threat to World peace since the Cuban Missile Crisis. #Boycott2026WorldCup.
neutral · AI labelView post →Major Rudolph Anderson Jr. was killed on Oct. 27, 1962, when his U-2 spy plane was shot down during the Cuba Missile Crisis. Major Anderson grew up in Greenville. The memorial is located in Cleveland Park. He flew the F-86 Sabre Jet in Korea. #MemorialDay #RudolphAnderson #CubanMissileCrisis #GreenvilleSC #ClevelandPark
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess after the Cuban Missile Crisis a nice quiet game of golf felt like just the right amount of tense for your action spy thriller. #Goldfinger #FlicksForAll
neutral · AI labelView post →Played 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17... US win. #bggplay #boardgames via @boardgamegeek.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Historically, it’s not clear that the game theory argument was more important than the actual experience of the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which several miscommunications nearly led the whole world to disaster.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yea, that's a military game theory that I know I'm not competent to help others form even an initial opinion. I studied game theory in college and also its practical application during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And saying "it's complicated" is a massive understatement.
neutral · AI labelView post →Given his notably low intelligence, acute psychopathy, and soul deep jealousy of others, seems like he just wants to recreate "classic presidential moments". It’s all a game and temper tantrum from the world’s oldest toddler. This week, diddy Donnie is playing Cuban Missile Crisis. Twat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got three board games played over the weekend and a card game. Board Games - - Black Orchestra - 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis - General Orders World War II (looking forward to the new Sengoku version coming out) For cards - played several games of Canasta.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade is a real-time strategy game little like red alert but with limited units that can't be replaced. Everything seems nice for a 2005 game. It's basically exactly the same as Cuban Missile Crisis but with a snow theme, that is all The fog of war is your greatest enemy, foot soldiers are a little bit weird in terms of their reaction time, but it kinda plays a realistic part in war zones. It's a very enjoyable game, the tutorial has too many notice boxes, too much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →But even though Trump has dispatched the largest U.S. naval flotilla to the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis, 15,000 U.S. troops aboard those warships would not be enough to take control of Venezuela. The South American country is larger than Texas home to rugged mountains and Amazon jungle.
neutral · AI labelView post →It works under Win 10 with regular updates. (12.25.2017.) There were problems with recent versions of Win, but now it works fine.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I first discovered the original Cuban Missile Crisis as a Blitzkrieg fan back sometime around 2006 or 2007. It was only on Cyber Monday of 2015, nearly a decade later, that I discovered the Ice Crusade expansion pack. So I bought this and got back into the old groove. It was just like I remembered. I had to smile that even in the expansion pack, the enemy still has a prediliction for trying to take back radar installations. I never understood why they did that, but they still do it in Ice…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thirteen days. One wrong move. The whole world close to nuclear war. #books #bookreview #CubanMissileCrisis #ColdWar https://smpl.is/amypy
neutral · AI labelView post →They need to make a game about the Cuban Missile Crisis from the point of view of the Raving Rabbids
neutral · AI labelView post →It's the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, so I suggest a triple-header: The War Game, followed by Threads, followed by When the Wind Blows.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very good like the first one. In this game though there are only USSR and USA campaign :( . Some new prototype vehicles are also nice addition.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The man behind NotebookLM announces ‘I uploaded the wikipedia page for the Cuban Missile Crisis and played through a simulation of those events with me in the role of JFK.’ For an explanation, a game and the full context see here: thelongcontext.com #EduSky #historyteacher
neutral · AI labelView post →I teach historical games and often post about how awesome my students are when I'm mid-game. Don't study them as a research field, though. Spring 2025: teaching the Cuban Missile Crisis, Chicago 1968, and Watergate.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade is an older milsim/RTS game where you control a bunch of tanks and things and shoot up the baddies and feel very tacticool about being a military general. Unfortunately this is simply too dated to recommend, with no widescreen support, no 1080p or higher support. The game displays widescreen stretched 4:3. The only gamers who might be interested in this would be for nostalgia purposes, and those players would already have the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game maybe when u start its a pain in the ass but its really nice i like the 3d models and the T 10 M Tank is epic i give it a solid 7/10 .
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's always been that way. Take the Cuban Missile Crisis (10/16-28/1962). The NYY beat SFG in Game 7 on 10/16 1-0. On 10/20, there was a full slate of NCAA football games (Northwestern beat Ohio State!). 10/21 saw 7 NFL games, with NYG over DET. 62,000+ were at Yankee Stadium for that game.
neutral · AI labelView post →the BBC also did a nuclear war drama called THE WAR GAME in the 1960s that was banned from airing for being too bleak lmao. came out right after the Cuban Missile Crisis. somehow still more hopeful than THREADS, mind.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade, developed by G5 Software and published by Fulqrum Publishing, is a standalone expansion that builds upon the foundation of the original Cuban Missile Crisis strategy game, taking its alternate Cold War setting to an even more desperate and frozen world. The story imagines a grim continuation of history where nuclear war actually broke out in the early 1960s, blanketing the Earth in nuclear winter and leaving the surviving powers scrambling for dominance amidst…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“The game isn’t wrong the game is perfect. I’m saying that something the character says is a piece of American propaganda from the Cuban Missile Crisis.” “AND ITS NOT METAL GEAR SOLID 4, it’s 3. They haven’t remade 4 and they probably won’t because it was so specialized for the hardware.”
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a possibility. Would be great if Harald Malmgren, in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis and adviser to subsequent admins, could chime in on that. Taking a hit while not ending the world is *still* a game theory play.
neutral · AI labelView post →2) “winning” them, including Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was never a chance that Ukraine “winning” the war against Russia would not end in a nuclear game of chicken that would lead to the negotiations we’re about to enter. Biden, with a much more realistic view of Putin, knew—
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (I was 9) and the BBC film 'The War Game' (banned in 1966 when it was made for being too scary) but shown at our school in 1967. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday, at my day job, we launched a Backerkit campaign for a Cold War simulation/parlor LARP about the Cuban Missile Crisis called Eyeball to Eyeball. This 1-2 hour game is for 10-39 players ages 14 & up. If you've ever played a Reacting to the Past game before, you'll want to check this out.
neutral · AI labelView post →IKS Annual Halloween game. We combined a Cuban Missile Crisis scenario with War of the Worlds. The Martians decided to intervene before the US and USSR could nuke each other. Tripods landed off Key West and pushed into Florida and Cuba. Needless to say, Florida has seen better days.
positive · AI labelView post →I just tried to bring my flirting A game by making a Cuban Missile Crisis joke. Jfc no wonder I am a dateless loser.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love it played it years ago on CD and still play it here on Steam
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad interface, cumbersome controls, lack of enjoyable gameplay. Be prepared to be frustrated with the RTS glitches, micro-managing as hell, non-intuitive controls... Perhaps it was good in 2005. In 2019 its counter-intuitive, boring and glitchy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thirteen days. One wrong move. The whole world close to nuclear war. #books #bookreview #CubanMissileCrisis #ColdWar https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cuban-missile-crisis/
neutral · AI labelView post →Base game was already bad, still no mission editor, and this one got rid of two factions
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Taking your Cuban Missile Crisis example, ask yourself if the finished game would be of use in your teaching or research. Could the game, perhaps with a few tweaks, be used to explore how people would have reacted if the reality had played out differently?
neutral · AI labelView post →https://youtu.be/Lje7XKcB3Wc Multiple heavy simulation layers with decades old interface are not a great combination the current day.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cuban Missile Crisis, my all-time favourite turn-based/RTS PC game in three different versions (US, UK and Poland) plus the historical book DEFCON-2 from Polmar & Gresham. What a collection ;-) unfortunately I sold the hungarian version years ago, now its missing...
positive · AI labelView post →🌍✨ Dive into history! Discover 5 game-changing events from Oct 21st: Trafalgar’s naval triumph 🚢, Edison’s light bulb 💡, Aachen’s WWII fall 🏰, Cuban Missile Crisis 🚀, and Australia’s press protest 📰. #HistoryUnveiled thomasejohnson.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow I will be running a role-playing game of my own design with my students. They’ll be working their way through the Cuban Missile Crisis. Holding thumbs it lives up to their (very high) expectations!
neutral · AI labelView post →Keeping an eye open the Psy Ops is all over its Biblical, Movies, 1984, Nightmares, WWIII a little of everything. What I can tell there is a Cat and Mouse Game going on. There are only 2 Outcomes 1. We're all Dead or 2. Future. This is worse than WWII, Cuban Missile Crisis. We shall see.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m in the process of designing a role-playing game based on the Cuban Missile Crisis for my students. It started out as a riff on DnD but it’s morphing into its own thing. Once it takes on a coherent shape, I’ll share here for those interested!
neutral · AI labelView post →12. Neil's favorite animals are foxes, and Andrew's are Lemon Sharks [I might be projecting] [I have a list of what the others animals are] 13. Kevin's favorite historical event is the Cuban Missile Crisis 14. Renee dyes the tips of her hair orange for her last game 15. Dan is the one to propose
neutral · AI labelView post →Unique and just good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good strategy game looks like a mix of c&c and blitzkrieg, this one is also easier than the previous one (though it can be repetitive at times)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game from my childhood. Music is awesome.
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