Twilight Struggle: The Cold War as a Strategy Game

'Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989' is a card-driven strategy game where two players take control of the USA and the USSR vying for dominance during the Cold War. The talk will briefly introduce this award-winning game, analyze how the historical Cold War informs Twilight Struggle's design, and investigate how the game generates plausible alternate histories of the Cold War.