User:Piotrus/Draft:1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact

1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact (sometimes also known as the 1953: The Red Wave) is a single-player military turn-based strategy game developed by Wastelands Interactive and published for Microsoft Windows in 2014. In 2019 the game port to Nintendo Switch was announced.

Development
The game was reported to be a "side project" of Leszek Lisowski, leader of Wasteland Interactive team, developed in his free time while the main team was focusing on the Worlds of Magic.

Plot
The game is set in an alternative timeline where Stalin's death turns Cold War into World War III.

Gameplay
The game is played mostly on a hex-type map of Europe with fragments of Asia, Africa and USA. The game is mostly focused on combat (strategic movement of units), with limited diplomacy, economy and technology research menus.