Fit check
Is Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy fans who want to manage both national industry and armed forces
- Players who enjoy alternate-history and multiple-scenario campaigns
- Grand strategy players who want several victory conditions and control of more than 80 nations
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking short, tightly scripted matches rather than broad, turn-based national campaigns
- Players who prefer a narrow military tactics game without factory planning, trade, research, and infrastructure management
- Players looking for a contemporary setting instead of WWII, alternate-history, or fantasy scenarios
Our take on Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
Rather than treating WWII strategy as a purely military exercise, the game makes factories, finance, trade, infrastructure, and research part of the war plan. Its open nation selection and alternate victory conditions replace a single historical campaign path with several ways to reshape the conflict.
What is Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition?
Command one of over 80 nations in a turn-based WWII strategy game where military decisions are tied to industrial and economic planning.
Build factories, manage production, develop infrastructure, conduct research, control trade and aid, and deploy forces including infantry, tanks, ships, submarines, aircraft, and artillery. Research tactics such as maneuver warfare, hedgehog defense, and amphibious assaults to grant military bonuses. The Gold Edition adds new unit properties, unit renaming, rally points, way-points, expanded regional upgrades, and improved financial reports. Ten scenarios offer multiple starting points before and during the war, alongside alternate-history and fantasy scenarios. Victory can come through national, alliance, ideological, or domination objectives.
How Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition plays
- 01Nation-scale strategy
- Playable nations number over 80, with military, economic, diplomatic, and industrial decisions handled at national level.
- 02Industrial planning
- Production can be directed toward wealth, arms reserves, military units, research, or additional factories.
- 03Tactical unit control
- Gold Edition adds unit properties, renaming, rally points, and way-points for army movement.
- 04Multiple victory paths
- Objectives include nation, alliance, ideological, and domination victories, with domination using a controllable land percentage.
- 05Scenario variety
- Ten scenarios provide different starting points, with additional alternate-history and fantasy settings.
- 06Military research
- Research covers ships, submarines, artillery, infantry, tanks, armored vehicles, fighters, bombers, and battlefield tactics.
Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition compared to similar games
Xenonauts focuses on defending Cold War-era Earth through small squads of persistent soldiers, while Making History operates at national scale with industry, diplomacy, production, and more than 80 playable nations. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation centers on managing vast armies across a galactic setting, whereas Making History uses turn-based WWII strategy and economic planning. Old World follows empires across multiple generations with political family management, while Making History concentrates on wartime production, research, alliances, and military deployment.
Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition: platforms & release
Is Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy fans who want to manage both national industry and armed forces. Skip it if: players seeking short, tightly scripted matches rather than broad, turn-based national campaigns.
Where can I download Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition on?
Windows only.
