Kremlin (board game)

Kremlin is a board game satire of power struggles within the pre-glasnost Soviet Union government of the 1980s.

The original German-language edition was designed by Urs Hostettler and released in 1986 by the Swiss board game company Fata Morgana Spiele under the name Kreml.

"[1] In the December 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue 200), Allen Varney reviewed Avalon Hill's 1988 edition and the 1989 expansion set favorably, saying, "Makes for backbiting, double-crossing fun, and Avalon Hill’s advanced rules work well.

Lester Smith commented, "Kremlin invites us to look back on the Soviet era and put it in perspective through laughter.

But the satire isn't constrained by its ties to the past, or to one political superpower; with the minimum of imagination, Kremlin can easily be seen as a pointed jab at any corrupt and treacherous bureaucracy populated by ambitious old men.