Console: | PC |
TV Standard: | Region Not Set |
Developer(s): | Spectrum Holobyte |
Release Date: | 1991-12-31 |
Players: | 1 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | T - Teen |
Type: | Construction and Management Simulation, Strategy |
Crisis in the Kremlin is a 1991 strategy video game with managerial aspects in which the player acts as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 2017. The player assumes the role of the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, the nationalist Boris Yeltsin, or the hardliner Yegor Ligachev.[3] Actual jokes recorded by the KGB can be found in the gameplay, depicting the concerns of the Soviet people in a humorous light. The game was developed and released at a time when the Soviet Union was collapsing and breaking apart with the game's events making reference to that. Indeed, the Soviet Union dissolved in the same year as the game's release