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Making History: The Calm & the Storm
Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Mar 13, 2007
ActionStrategy

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Developer

Muzzy Lane

Publisher

Strategy First

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<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.</p>
<p>The game drops you into a rich WWII world where every nation has its own agenda, and where events can turn on a single alliance. Work with your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses. Build up your industry, infrastructure, economy, military. Create alliances. Then reshape your strategy as the world evolves with each turn.</p>
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<li><span class="copyHead">Rich WWII world:</span> MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.</li>
<li><span class="copyHead">You are your Nation:</span> Jump into a world in motion where every nation is pursuing its own agenda, and where events can turn on the breaking of a single alliance. Devise strategies based on your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses' and revise your plans as the world evolves in response to your actions. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Multi-Turn Combat:</span> An innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all affect your battle plan. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">More Military Options:</span> Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force. With scientific research you can unlock more advanced military units, and every unit features a detailed 3D model. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Sophisticated World Economy:</span> The game's economic system models the connections between world power and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Powerful Alliance System:</span> As you make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each action affects your relations with other nations, and their willingness to ally with you. If you lack strong allies, you may find other nations are more are more likely to attack. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Historic Scenarios:</span> Six scenarios let you start at a crucial historic moment, focus on a specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis and more, and each is based on detailed research. You can work to succeed where others failed, or take a different path and see what happens. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Superb replayability:</span> Each scenario drops you into a different firestorm. Each nation you play presents unique challenges. Everything evolves from your economic and military choices, the alliances you make, and the actions and reactions of the world's other nations. </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Single and Multiplayer Turn-Based Gameplay:</span> Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play is quick and responsive, and keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight others in multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and secret pacts. Will you be a trusted ally or a backstabbing tyrant? </li>
<li><span class="copyHead">Built for Modding:</span> Use included Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own. </li></ul>

Ratings

SteamMostly Positive(630 reviews)
Metacritic70

Price history

$4$2MSRPHistorical low — $0.67 on Jul 12, 2026Jul 12, 2026Jul 29, 2026
MSRP $3.99Low $0.67 · Jul 12, 2026

Details

ReleasedMar 13, 2007
DeveloperMuzzy Lane
PublisherStrategy First
PlatformsPC
LanguagesEnglish

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