The Best Political Games

Update : The Darkest Files added at rank #15.
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The Political Process (2019)

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early access PC Windows

Explore a dynamic world of politics in this turn-based, political simulator. Create a character, run for political office, write legislation, balance budgets, and more as you move up the political hierarchy.

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  • political
  • politics
  • simulation

2

Papers, Please (2013)

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PC Windows Android vita IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.


  • dystopian
  • document
  • political
  • simulation
  • non-photographic
  • thriller
  • endless
  • war
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • difficult
  • puzzle
  • story
  • multiple-endings
  • addictive

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Socialism Simulator (2022)

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PC Windows

The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.

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  • political
  • diplomacy
  • cold
  • word
  • war
  • turn-based
  • politics
  • economy
  • pve
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • tactical

4

Countryballs: Modern Ballfare (2023)

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PC Windows

The Definitive Political Debating Simulator. A wacky third-person multiplayer arena shooter inspired by Countryball memes - a game encouraging you to smash each others balls until someone finishes victoriously. Now includes an online co-op zombie mode!

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  • political
  • dark
  • comedy
  • memes
  • pvp
  • tps
  • comic
  • humor
  • shooter
  • simulation
  • arena
  • character
  • book
  • cooperative
  • third-person

5

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

6

NIMBY Rails (2021)

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early access PC Windows

Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.

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  • transportation
  • railway
  • simulation
  • political
  • capitalism
  • politics
  • building
  • city-building
  • trains
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • management
  • open-world
  • minimalist

7

Not Tonight 2 (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

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  • political
  • simulation
  • life
  • dystopian
  • politics
  • alternate
  • historical
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • time-management
  • dark
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • slum
  • bouncer

8

Beholder: Adventure (2017)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

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?


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

9

Tropico 6 (2019)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

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

10

Suzerain (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS

A text-based RPG inspired by world political history in which the player, embodying newly elected president Anton Rayne, must set political goals and gain the support of the public, the Assembly, the Supreme Court and neighbouring nations to lead the country of Sordland, a fictional state inspired by real-life Turkey, into a future of their design with the help of their ministers and advisors.


  • political
  • diplomacy
  • historical
  • politics
  • text
  • choices
  • economy
  • immersive
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • alternate
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • adventure

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