Risk with Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation

[DeimosMasque]

There was a game back in the Windows 3.1 days that was basically Risk with Oil, Food and Nuclear Weapons. It was called Proliferation.

I only ever had the shareware version of the game (I was a pre-teen/early teen after all) but it was one of my favorite games to play.

Except for the Civilization series of games, has there ever been a game a Turn-Based Strategy game that played off our worst fears? That we will annihilate the planet with nuclear weapons before we solve anything?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

There's a PC multiplayer strategy game called "DEFCON" that's all about nuclear war.

Description from Steam:

Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker. Your mission is to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own. Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy and thoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your own civilian deaths. In order to win you must wipe out the enemy population and simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate against you. This is an extremely difficult task since launching an attack on the enemy exposes the positions of your own Ground Silos, Subs and Bombers the moment they launch nuclear weapons, making you extremely vulnerable and exposed to a crushing counter-attack.

Desperate attempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances, alliances that may at any moment break-down to become the treacherous and most deadly of betrayals. Everyone looks to each other in a state of nervous suspense and paranoid accusation. In all-out nuclear Armageddon, everybody dies, everybody loses, you just have to make sure you lose the least!