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China: Mao's legacy

China: Mao's legacy

Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

Released May 24, 2019 Developer Nostalgames Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Political SimStrategySimulationIndiePolitics
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-10-24)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.

91.4%positive1,048 reviews
Recommended · 150 found this helpful

“This time around, the developers have focused on one specific country, instead of a whole bloc of them. The result is a much longer play session, with my first go around lasting nearly 2 hours! Keep in mind, this is a game meant to be replayed many times over. The subject matter…”

— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played
Recommended · 179 found this helpful

“I murdered the revisionist dog Deng Xiaoping and established fully automated luxury communism with Chinese characteristics. 10/10”

— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played
Recommended · 46 found this helpful

“I like the game, it's an improvement over Crisis In The Kremlin and Ostalgie, but it's kind of disappointing. These three games, they have so much potential but they lack so much depth. The map only covers half of the world and you can't even do dealings with all the visible…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

2,222all-time peak
0 100 200 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 138 avg · Aug 2019

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-24.

204achievements
1.1%median completion
0.2%rarest: People's revolution
9.4% of players 5.3% of players 4.8% of players 4.2% of players 3.9% of players 3.7% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.7% of players 2.4% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 9.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
9.4%Saṃsāra — MCPC won the election, and you didn't.
5.6%One billion — Get population of 1 billion people before 1980
5.5%Dream of Confucius — Xiaokang society is achieved
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%People's revolution — A citizen comes to power as a result of unrest
0.2%The people's favourite — A citizen becomes a ruler
0.2%A man of the people — Appoint a citizen as minister

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$6.99current · sampled 2026-10-24 11:05 UTC
$2.79lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US6.99 USD
EU6.89 EUR
UK5.89 GBP
Australia10.25 AUD
Canada8.99 CAD
Japan800 JPY
Brazil23.50 BRL

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$4.7 Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$7.9

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-23). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 07-11 08-01 08-21 09-11 10-02 10-24

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 04, 2026
Update 1.8.5 “Acceleration”

In this update, we have redesigned the save system. Now saves are faster, you can make more than five, and they are more beautiful and flexible.Enjoy the game! Tell your friends about our games!

Dec 30, 2025
Update 1.8..2

Update 8.0.2 includes further historical corrections:Taking foreign debt is now disabled at the start until one of three conditions is met.Changed the text of the "Five Noes" event.Changed the text of

Dec 27, 2025
QoL + History update 1.8.0

Happy New Year, dear friends! This update includes:1. The modifier “Consequences of the Great Leap Forward” and the science “Development of Agricultural Methods” have been renamed.2. The modifier “Bou

Jul 09, 2025
Version 1.7.9.5

New:Implemented new random positive/negative events for citizens.Changes:Citizen events no longer occur strictly on the first day of the month. Their activation day is now randomly selected within the

May 29, 2025
1.7.9.2

Changes related to the latest DLC: 1. Reduction in youth mortality 2. Ability to choose character ideology 3. Bug fixes Enjoy the game!

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsPolitical Sim · Strategy · Simulation · Indie · Politics · Cold War · Political · Management · RPG · Strategy RPG · Grand Strategy · CRPG (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Russian
Achievements204
Official sitehttps://nostal.games/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ (32-bit, 64-bit) Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DX10 (shader model 4.0) DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 1 GB available space