The Best Simulation strategy management political Games for Mac OS

Update : Rise Of The White Sun added at rank #27.
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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

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Crusader Kings III (2020)

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Playstation 5 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox Series X

Crusader Kings III immerses you in the world of medieval politics and dynasties, letting you choose a noble house and lead them to greatness. With a vast and beautifully detailed medieval map to explore, you will encounter a host of historical characters, make life-altering decisions, and forge your dynasty's legacy. The game's unique and colorful characters, wide range of playstyles, and limitless paths to follow make it an exciting and rewarding experience for those who love grand strategy games.

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What we like:
  • Immersive gameplay and world-building
  • Wide range of options for playstyle and objectives
  • Beautiful graphics and top-notch soundtrack
  • Unique and colorful characters with varied abilities and traits
  • Legacy system adds depth and longevity to gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Overpriced DLCs that do not add much to gameplay
  • Slow pace of gameplay and battles
  • Uncanny 3D models
  • Lack of region differentiation

  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • historical
  • war
  • empire
  • grand
  • political
  • politics
  • military
  • management

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Through the Darkest of Times (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.


  • historical
  • political
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • world-war-2
  • politics
  • war
  • management
  • narrative
  • poor
  • text
  • story
  • horror
  • stat
  • thrilling

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Tropico 3 (2009)

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IOS iPhoneos Mac OS Xbox 360 PC Windows

Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?


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

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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
  • economy
  • political
  • politics
  • simulation
  • historical
  • military
  • strategy
  • war

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Tropico 5 (2014)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Linux Playstation 4 Xbox 360 PC Windows Mac OS

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.


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

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Tropico 4 (2011)

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Xbox One Mac OS Xbox 360 PC Windows

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.


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

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This Is the Police 2 (2018)

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Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.


  • crime
  • management
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • drama
  • simulation
  • narrative
  • squad
  • detective
  • stealth
  • police
  • story
  • political

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Weedcraft Inc (2019)

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Weedcraft Inc. is a tycoon game about developing a weed empire that challenges the expectations of the genre. Players will learn to craft and manage their own cannabis business, hire employees and make tough decisions while navigating fluctuating consumer demand. The unique comic-book style artwork and lo-fi hip hop soundtrack create an immersive atmosphere. Get ready to explore two serious stories, meet a colorful cast of characters, have your moral codes challenged and make allegiances or rivalries.


What we like:
  • Strategic depth
  • Expressive art style
  • Character driven narrative
  • Challenging business simulation mechanics
  • Rewards creative interpretation of legality
What could be improved:
  • Long campaigns may become tedious at times
  • Some borderlines tedious mechanics

  • management
  • simulation
  • business
  • empire
  • political
  • clicker

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Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager (2015)

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PC Windows-98 dos IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows

Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.


  • management
  • 1950s
  • space
  • open-ended
  • strategy
  • historical
  • exploration
  • turn-based
  • political
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • reference
  • replay-value
  • board-game
  • realistic

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