Little Red Dog Games has announced the release date for Precipice.

Their third commercial game will launch for Windows PC and Linux via Steam for $11.99 on May 1st.

Precipice is a game of subterfuge, negotiation, and nuclear chicken set at the height of the Cold War. The game is loosely inspired by the popular board games Balance of Power and Twilight Struggle, and involves one-to-two players navigating the politics and proxy wars of the East and West.

The game features 72 nations, each of which have a leader represented by an anthropomorphic animal native to the country in question. You can check out a trailer for the game above.

Here’s a rundown of the game:

Atomic Age Brinkmanship
Take control of the United States or Soviet Union and provide technical and economic assistance to guerrillas all over the world fighting for your cause, all while avoiding a direct and open-confrontation with the enemy.

​In Precipice, subterfuge is the most important strategy. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.

Will you be victorious in the Cold War, or will you send us all over the precipice of nuclear annihilation?

Key Features:

• Tense strategy for one or two players. Face a highly-responsive, unpredictable AI that will attempt to understand your strategy and counter it at every turn, or invite a friend and see if you can collectively work to avoid global catastrophe online.
• World leaders from 72 countries realized as animals native to the region, all pawns in the dangerous game of nuclear chicken.
• Manage resources from territories under your control to resolve immediate crises or win over future allies.
• Recreate history, or forge your own path. Put a bear on the moon. The possibilities are endless.
• Simple, intuitive gameplay that is also difficult to master.