Making History: The Calm & the Storm overview

Overview

Making History: The Calm & the Storm comes from Muzzy Lane and is published by Strategy First. It arrived on Steam on Mar 13, 2007, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Making History: The Calm & the Storm's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 6 October 2026 - 07:05:41 UTC, with a tracked peak near 6. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 79% positive across 633 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Making History: The Calm & the Storm is available in 1 languages including:

4 regional rating boards including esrb, dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Making History: The Calm & the Storm has sold up to 46,572 units and has 555 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $132,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Making History: The Calm & the Storm overview details

Making History: The Calm & the Storm combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

<p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.</p> <p>The game drops you into a rich WWII world where every nation has its own agenda, and where events can turn on a single alliance. Work with your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses. Build up your industry, infrastructure, economy, military. Create alliances. Then reshape your strategy as the world evolves with each turn.</p> <ul> <li><span class="copyHead">Rich WWII world:</span> MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.</li> <li><span class="copyHead">You are your Nation:</span> Jump into a world in motion where every nation is pursuing its own agenda, and where events can turn on the breaking of a single alliance. Devise strategies based on your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses' and revise your plans as the world evolves in response to your actions. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China. </li> <li><span class="copyHead">Multi-Turn Combat:</span> An innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geograph…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Making History: The Calm & the Storm is listed as a game with $0.99 (75% off from $3.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 6 October 2026 - 07:05:41 UTC, a tracked peak of 6, and 79% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StrategyActionGrand StrategyTurn-Based StrategyWorld War IIHistoricalSingleplayerMultiplayerTurn-Based

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