70%Strong matchPower & Revolution 2020 Edition
64%75764% positive reviews, Mixed across 757 reviews·Diplomacy · Grand Strategy
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In a world where the east and the west have their histories switched, take control of the United Provinces of Kinshu, the foremost power during the most volatile era of its history, the cold war. In the midst of global conflicts, corruption, and conspiracy, your decisions shall mark your destiny.
Ikigai: An Alternate Cold War Simulator
SteamTake charge of the United Provinces of Kinshu, and travel through a thrilling and exciting story as moving through the presidency of Makoto Takatsuski from 1961 to 1964. Confront and manage issues such as the deep rooted corruption, proxy wars, interventions, a sluggish economy, and social protests that are pushing the leading and most powerful nation on earth to the brink of an implosion from the inside out. Your decisions may change the outcome of not only your own nation, but of the entire world.


Welcome to Ikigai, an alternate timeline where history was shaped not by Europe, but by the great powers of Asia. Nations like Nihon, Joseon, and Chu dominated the globe. In the Americas, this led to a revolution against Nihonese rule, giving birth to a new world power: the United Provinces of Kinshu. Meanwhile, Europe languished, with a fragile, unified Rome and an isolationist Britannia watching from the sidelines as the world changed around them. The 20th century brought two world wars. The second, a bloody confrontation between the Allies and the Axis, reshaped the planet. The Allied powers were led by the United Provinces of Kinshu, Nihon, Republican Rome, and the Union of Social Council Republics (the successor to Mongolia). They fought against an extremist Axis composed of Chu, Vietnam, and a militaristic Britannia. After the most bloody conflict placed upon humanity, including the detonation of the first nuclear weapon which led to the final surrender of Britannia, set in the world in the most tense era of the entire history, the Cold War. The times after the war proved to be turbulent, with events such as the defeat of the Republican Rome by the Roman Councilist Forces, the Danmark War, and the beggining of the Space Race, the United Provinces of Kinshu, the Union of Social Council Republics, and the People's Republic of Rome are engaged for the dominance of their beliefs and ideology in a race for technology and influence across the world. Now enters you, the newly elected 35th president of the United Provinces of Kinshu, how will you lead your nation?
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