The Best Political Games for Mac OS

Update : Lil\' Guardsman added at rank #1.
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Lil' Guardsman (2024)

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In 'Lil Guardsman', you, as a 12-year-old Lil, hold the keys to the city's fate. Interrogate a colorful cast from a fantasy world, making critical choices to shape its future. Upgrade your toolkit, navigate royal politics, and maybe even rewind time. Every decision counts. Are you ready to balance justice and strategy in this heartwarming, humorous adventure?


What we like:
  • Engaging narrative and dialogue
  • Blend of adventure and detective gameplay
  • Time rewind feature for exploring outcomes
  • High replayability with varied gameplay sections
  • Impressive voice acting and art style
What could be improved:
  • Some gameplay choices feel insignificant
  • Pacing can be inconsistent

  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • fantasy
  • political
  • funny
  • conversation
  • multiple-endings
  • adventure
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • choices
  • hand-drawn
  • linear
  • narrative
  • cute

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Tropico 6 (2019)

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Tropico 6 is a city-building game that offers an engaging mix of elements such as ruling your own island dictatorship, sandbox mode with customizable goals, missions, and easy controller support. You can be a big picture person and make decisions that impact the entire island or get into the minute details of urban planning.


What we like:
  • Engaging mix of elements
  • Sandbox mode with customizable goals
  • Missions
  • Easy controller support:No need for mouse and keyboard or touchscreen
What could be improved:
  • Minor performance issues

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • political
  • sandbox
  • management
  • strategy
  • construction
  • military
  • politics

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Rebel Inc. (2018)

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A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

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  • simulation
  • military
  • political
  • strategy
  • war
  • tactical
  • real-time
  • realistic
  • war-torn
  • nation-building
  • mini-golf

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Long Gone Days (2023)

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Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

A modern-day JRPG that imagines a world of war. Overcome language barriers, forge unlikely friendships, and find hope amidst conflict.


  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • japanese
  • political
  • military
  • war
  • modern
  • combat
  • story
  • emotional
  • drama
  • pixel
  • party
  • jrpg
  • alternate

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Tonight We Riot (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The game follows a player-controlled crowd of workers rather than a single character,[4] each member with their own weapons, to fight against Pinkertons, militias, and police as they move their way through a level. Players can inspire more workers to join the crowd by liberating factories and encouraging more workers to join the fight. The game's difficulty is dynamic as it is tied in part due to the size of the mob, from being extremely difficult as a single worker to challenging or easy as the mob grows in size.[5] The levels end in boss fights ranging from large vehicles operated by the police to the President of the fictional country the game takes place in.[6][7]


  • political
  • beat-em-up
  • crowd
  • politics
  • cooperative

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Beholder: Adventure (2017)

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You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

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  • dystopian
  • political
  • dark
  • simulation
  • multiple-endings
  • humor
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric

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The Gallery (2022)

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An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).

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  • interactive
  • political
  • narrative
  • choices
  • fmv
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • politics
  • social
  • puzzle
  • thriller

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Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived (2019)

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Linux Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

As a police detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?


  • detective
  • political
  • noir
  • crime
  • psychological
  • story
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • mature
  • fiction
  • book
  • comic
  • dark
  • manipulation
  • realistic

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Beholder 2 (2018)

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You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!


  • political
  • dystopian
  • dark
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • addictive
  • story

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Victoria 3 (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Take over as leader of one of the 200 nations with a centralized industry, back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, it's your job to improve the lives of your citizenry, manage their economy, and keep them happy. Politics plays a huge part in this game and you must form relationships with other countries to succeed.

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What we like:
  • Nested tooltips provide detailed information on concepts
  • Excellent GUI
  • Lots of events
  • Detailed population groups with their own needs
  • Deep economic system
What could be improved:
  • War mechanic not so great

  • grand-strategy
  • political
  • economy
  • politics
  • simulation
  • historical
  • military
  • diplomacy
  • capitalism
  • war
  • strategy

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