Cuban Missile Crisis is a hybrid real-time strategy and turn-based global strategy game developed by G5 Software and released for PC in 2005. Set in an alternate history branching from the 1962 nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, the game imagines a timeline in which both superpowers actually launched their arsenals, reducing much of the world to radioactive wasteland. Surviving cities now compete desperately over clean soil and water, the scarcest resources in the post-apocalyptic landscape. Players manage one of four factions — the USSR, a French-German alliance, China, or an American-British alliance — across dozens of missions. Gameplay alternates between a turn-based strategic layer, where borders shift and armies are organized, and real-time tactical battles. Radioactive contamination zones affect unit performance, and the arsenal includes helicopters, rockets, and reconnaissance troops alongside conventional forces.
