Cold Alchemy Games designs tabletop and experiential games that transform historical complexity into lived experience. From wargames to classroom simulations, we forge play from raw ideas.
Explore Our Games Our StoryA tabletop negotiation simulation set across the frozen geopolitics of the Cold War. Two to six players navigate proxy conflicts, intelligence operations, and back-channel diplomacy to avoid — or engineer — catastrophe.
Learn MoreA two-player asymmetric strategy game of elemental transformation. One player commands the forces of Order — rigid, powerful, slow to adapt. The other wields Flux — volatile, unpredictable, and capable of wholesale reinvention.
Learn MoreA hex-and-counter wargame tracing the turning points of the Eastern Front, 1941–1944. Operational-level decisions, supply chain management, and the brutal arithmetic of attrition — rendered in the Cold Alchemy tradition of historical fidelity.
Learn MoreEvery game begins in the archive. We research primary sources, consult specialists, and stress-test mechanics against the record before a single card is printed.
Play is a form of empathy. Our designs put players inside decisions, not above them — foregrounding consequence, ambiguity, and the fog of the moment.
Complexity lives in the world, not the rulebook. We strip mechanisms to their essential grain — so the friction you feel is historical, not procedural.