Guides

All one needs to know about economy, technology, and how to cause Amerikkka to lose its mind....

This is meant to eventually be a comprehensive beginner's guide to Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War. I'll try to use practical experience and theoretical code insights to explain the easiest path to victory, detail some of the hidden mechanical features...

This is a perfect event walktrough on how to destroy Israel...

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This guide will focus on how to increase your income and fix the soviet economy. ...

A simple guide for starting actions to reach the heavens in a single pounce!!! >:3 12/26/2025 this guide is almost entirely outdated other than the diplomacy section. ...

This is a advance guide on how to beat the US under 2.5 years on realism mode....

"The Soviets the sole and only subjects of socialist property and socialist management." Kosolapov wrote. The situation of the 1985 USSR is a deranged beast if we are being frank. Foreign policy disasters in Afghanistan and in Eastern europe has produced i...

Guide showing all the effects of your decisions in the prologue...

Gameplay basics, translated from Suzuha Amane's Guide. Currently working on adding images. "This guide is based on the collective experience of Collapse players. Here, the basics of the game will be discussed, as well as the most effective ways to get peac...

This is a guide to the Eurovision contest.(Also my first ever guide)...

How to Defeat Israel once and for all with the sheer power of Mao Zedong...

Some elementary information on how the economy works in CML. Note: the list is incomplete and some of these values may be approximations. ...

An event timeline spreadsheet. It includes (most of) all events in chronological order, the effects of each choice, the conditions that need to be met for a choice to be available and for certain optional events to occur....

A quick guide on how to play this game...

A guide to the available ideologies...

A list of timeline events, mostly diplomatic ones, and what resources their choices require. Also, some miscellaneous advice. Update for Homeland or Death underway!...

A guide for Italy in China Mao's legacy, (Dates, effects, circumstances welcome!)...

How to create the UAR (United Arab Republic), defeat Israel and get the Pan-Arabism achievement in the process....

This is a collection of information I have found on the steam forum and elsewhere on how the game works, how to influence different things in the game and some FAQ questions and answers....

Guide for the Achievement "Unthinkable" "Unthinkable" is one of the 4 secret achievements for Mao´s Legacy. The achievement is about China becoming the world´s dominant superpower, and with the US and USSR - both weakened - deciding to unite against her. H...

A dead simple (W.I.P) guide to all the incidents where the Ostalgia stat is added or subtracted. It will be modified over the course of the coming updates for additional occurrences and to make things more clear....

An achievement guide in English for the numerous achievements in Ostalgie....

This English guide is meant to introduce Ostalgie players to North Korea and includes specific strategies for playing as DPRK and obtaining DPRK-related achievements....

This is a small collection of leaders' portraits from Ostalgie. Feel free to use these pictures as avatars or for any other purposes....

How to do the "Classified" achievement for dummies...

The rise of Mikhail Gorbachev to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 had changed course for Hungary. By late 1988, activists within the party and bureaucracy and Budapest-based intellectuals were increasing pressure for change. Some of these became reformist...

Because I have nothing do to with my life and because "Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall" is one of my favourite games of all time (and my favourite of the "Crisis in The Kremlin"), I decided to make this guide to help new players and players that decided to dedic...

Become the ultimate stalwart of socialism and win the game with North Korea on Gorbachev's Call (and all difficulties enabled, of course.)...

A temporaily achievement guide of the new dlc...

This guide was taken from concepts and a guide in a far off russian forum, and it took me a long and hard time to compile everything and search it out. I was slightly annoyed that people hadnt figured it all out and put it on paper (or text hehe) for all t...

This guide focuses on giving a Step by Step of every decision and money expenditure to unlock every achievement in both DLC for Crisis in the Kremlin....

The economy very important in this game since almost every action requires money to be done. This guide will try to explain the core concepts of the economy in this game and help you use every last kopec efficiently as you rule the USSR! The informations p...

This guide is a Guide on how to get Crisis in the Kremlin Acheivments that are particulary easy and/or only take a few minutes....

Consequences of the pregame events, in order to help you take the best decisions according to your general secretary....

We often think of the USSR as a all powerful central government overlooking the small and docile states of smaller people's, some would even include Russia into this for some unknown reason. But here we are to assert control over the USSR and its path thro...

Welcome to Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago! This is a country plagued by economic instability and corruption. Here, the authorities watch everyone and everyone could end up in a gulag! The good news is that this country is very peaceful. The bad news is t...

Comrades, on this day, a great victory has been achieved. After decades of hard struggle, our great Party, our mighty motherland and our courageous people have managed to defeat the Western Imperialists and win the class struggle against the world bourgeoi...

This guide will introduce this game's interface to beginners. Many people complained about the fact that the in-game tutorial wouldn't let them explore the interface, so I thought that it would be a good idea to write a guide that can be consulted separate...

This 1991 guide works on the hardest difficulty so it works on basically any. Feel free to write corrections tho. Always open to new ideas how to play this game. But this works for me so I just wanted to share it. So to begin with the starting decision...