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Top Political Games

60+ political games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Indie, Simulation, Strategy.

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  1. #1 Papers, Please
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 reviews2013
    Developer: Lucas PopePublisher: 3909
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.3hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 85%

    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.

  2. #2 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
    95% matchVery Positive93% of 124,984 reviews2019
    Developer: ZA/UM
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.3hMean: 22.3h≥1hr: 85%

    Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

  3. #3 Imperator: Rome
    82% matchMixed65% of 26,771 reviews2019
    Developer: Paradox Development StudioPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.6hMean: 37.3h≥1hr: 89%

    Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

  4. #4 The Political Process
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,101 reviews2019
    Developer: Verlumino Studios LLC
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 15.6h≥1hr: 85%

    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.

  5. #5 270 | Two Seventy US Election
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,095 reviews2018
    Developer: Political Games LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.0hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 68%

    Do you have what it takes to become President of the United States? Can you win the Two Seventy (270) Electoral Votes needed for victory in the US Election?

  6. #6 Suzerain
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 11,092 reviews2020
    Developer: Torpor Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.5hMean: 18.1h≥1hr: 73%

    Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

  7. #7 Beholder 2
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 7,880 reviews2018
    Developer: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Publisher: Alawar
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 19.0h≥1hr: 88%

    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!

  8. #8 Democracy 4
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 6,264 reviews2022
    Developer: Positech Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 13.0h≥1hr: 77%

    Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...

  9. #9 Not Tonight
    73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,674 reviews2018
    Developer: PanicBarnPublisher: No More Robots
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 91%

    Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

  10. #10 Kandidatos
    72% matchVery Positive90% of 4,266 reviews2020
    Developer: Shaikonina Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 3.2h≥1hr: 65%

    Fight in the biggest political tournament in Brazil.

  11. #11 Divinity: Dragon Commander
    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,503 reviews2013
    Developer: Larian Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 86%

    You are the Dragon Commander. Your mission it is to reunite a broken empire and become the new emperor. Success depends entirely on your ability to efficiently rule your empire, build invincible armies and lead them to victory.

  12. #12 House of Legacy
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 3,616 reviews2025
    Developer: S3 StudioPublisher: Thermite Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.3hMean: 18.4h≥1hr: 81%

    Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

  13. #13 Mr.President!
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 5,429 reviews2016
    Developer: Game Developer X
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.5hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 80%

    Mr.President! Can you take a bullet for the soon to be President of the United States of America?! You play as Dick “Rock-Hard” Johnson a bulletproof man, the best bodyguard money can buy. He is sworn to protect the most hated presidential candidate of all time Ronald Rump.

  14. #14 RIOT: Civil Unrest
    69% matchMixed68% of 1,899 reviews2019
    Developer: Leonard MenchiariPublisher: Silver Lining Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 48mMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 47%

    As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.

  15. #15 Democracy 3
    69% matchMostly Positive74% of 7,255 reviews2013
    Developer: Positech Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 10.8h≥1hr: 84%

    Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.

  16. #16 Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 1,822 reviews2016
    Developer: Maverick Game StudioPublisher: Three Guys Game Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 11.6h≥1hr: 86%

    A Pro-Donald Trump presidential simulation. Make America Rich Again through trade. Make America Safe again by Defeating ISIS. Make America Great Again!

  17. #17 Super Bernie World
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,095 reviews2020
    Developer: Gamedevs for BerniePublisher: Kitsune Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 1.3h≥1hr: 21%

    Join Bernie's movement and transform the United States in this free retro 2D platformer.

  18. #18 Beholder: Conductor
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 4,209 reviews2025
    Developer: Alawar
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.5hMean: 4.6h≥1hr: 86%

    A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

  19. #19 Replica
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 3,503 reviews2016
    Developer: Somi
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.8hMean: 35.1h≥1hr: 88%

    Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.

  20. #20 Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
    66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,845 reviews2018
    Developer: Osmotic StudiosPublisher: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.5hMean: 5.1h≥1hr: 90%

    Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.

  21. #21 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,085 reviews2016
    Developer: iNK Stories
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.3hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 88%

    1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

  22. #22 Tonight We Riot
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 562 reviews2020
    Developer: Pixel Pushers Union 512Publisher: Means Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.6hMean: 2.6h≥1hr: 62%

    A revolutionary crowd-based retro brawler

  23. #23 CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck
    61% matchVery Positive93% of 2,084 reviews2025
    Developer: Team SNEED
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 4.4h≥1hr: 69%

    CUCKOLD SIMULATOR, the exciting new game where you play as Cuckold (that is his name) in his day-to-day life. Work hard, give all your money to the bull, and be verbally abused by your fat wife.

  24. #24 Masters of the World - Geopolitical Simulator 3
    64% matchMixed45% of 609 reviews2014
    Developer: Eversim
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Discover the industry standard for geopolitical simulation of today’s world!In Masters of the World, the third incarnation of Geopolitical Simulator, play as the head of state of one or more countries and expand your influence across the globe.

  25. #25 Europa Universalis III Complete
    63% matchVery Positive83% of 1,992 reviews2009
    Developer: Paradox Development StudioPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.2hMean: 11.4h≥1hr: 89%

    Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.

  26. #26 Solium Infernum
    61% matchVery Positive88% of 1,640 reviews2024
    Developer: League of Geeks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 29.7h≥1hr: 82%

    Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?

  27. #27 Power & Revolution
    63% matchMixed56% of 1,294 reviews2016
    Developer: Eversim
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    In Power & Revolution, become a Head of State of one or several countries of your choice and extend your influence on the world, or play as a legal or illegal opposition leader and get ready for the conquest to power!

  28. #28 JudgeSim
    61% matchVery Positive85% of 1,308 reviews2024
    Developer: DelusionArt Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 77%

    Things were worse than ever in Banana Republic, a somber island country. While anarchists roamed the streets, corruption was running deeper due to economic crisis and rising crime rates. Bearing these burdens were "judges" who tried to make things right with honesty...

  29. #29 A Bewitching Revolution
    62% matchVery Positive93% of 352 reviews2019
    Developer: Colestia
    Platforms: Windows

    A Bewitching Revolution is a first-person adventure game about a communist witch living in a cyberpunk city. Use magic to help the city's residents organise collective forms of power and resistance!

  30. #30 Plutocracy
    61% matchVery Positive80% of 1,348 reviews2019
    Developer: Redwood
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?

  31. #31 NOT A HERO
    60% matchVery Positive87% of 2,042 reviews2016
    Developer: Roll7Publisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 4.5h≥1hr: 79%

    Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

  32. #32 The Westport Independent
    61% matchMostly Positive76% of 330 reviews2016
    Developer: Double Zero One Zero
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.0hMean: 9.9h≥1hr: 51%

    The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...

  33. #33 Kandidatos Kart
    60% matchVery Positive86% of 904 reviews2020
    Developer: Shaikonina Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 62%

    The craziest race, with the fastest and most furious Kandidatos in Brazil.

  34. #34 Headliner: NoviNews
    60% matchVery Positive89% of 806 reviews2018
    Developer: Unbound Creations
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.2hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 74%

    Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

  35. #35 My Friend Stalin
    60% matchVery Positive90% of 611 reviews2021
    Developer: Boom Team
    Platforms: Windows

    For the first time on steam. The greatest dictator of all time is now dancing on your desktop!

  36. #36 Democratic Socialism Simulator
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 197 reviews2020
    Developer: Molleindustria
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!

  37. #37 Korwin The Game
    60% matchMostly Positive78% of 224 reviews2015
    Developer: Zbigniew OchmanPublisher: Wolfiesoft
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 88%

    Old-school 2D platform game. You play as a warrior for freedom in the fight against hordes of socialists. 19 models enemies. 12 levels.

  38. #38 China: Mao's legacy
    59% matchVery Positive92% of 1,038 reviews2019
    Developer: Nostalgames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.6hMean: 15.8h≥1hr: 83%

    Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

  39. #39 Not For Broadcast: Prologue
    59% matchVery Positive93% of 766 reviews2019
    Developer: NotGamesPublisher: tinyBuild
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 24mMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 15%

    Take control of the National Nightly News, as a radical government comes to power. In this immersive, high-pressure, propaganda sim, you control what the people see and determine what’s Not For Broadcast.

  40. #40 Mind Scanners
    59% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,287 reviews2021
    Developer: The Outer ZonePublisher: Brave At Night
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 86%

    Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

  41. #41 Psycholonials
    58% matchVery Positive90% of 1,110 reviews2021
    Developer: Andrew HussiePublisher: None
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.7hMean: 17.7h≥1hr: 79%

    While in communication with supernatural forces, two influencers launch a daring new social media brand.

  42. #42 HEADLINER
    59% matchMostly Positive77% of 925 reviews2017
    Developer: Unbound Creations
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.0hMean: 2.7h≥1hr: 70%

    Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

  43. #43 Yang2020 Path To Presidency
    59% matchVery Positive88% of 136 reviews2019
    Developer: Sam Vallely
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Andrew Yang is unstoppable on his path to presidency! Play through all of the ups and downs of his campaign journey as you battle the other candidates, the naysayers and of course President Trump!

  44. #44 Citystate II
    58% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,099 reviews2021
    Developer: Andy Sztark
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 9.6h≥1hr: 75%

    Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

  45. #45 Need to Know
    59% matchMixed67% of 293 reviews2018
    Developer: Monomyth Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.

  46. #46 The Fermi Paradox
    58% matchMostly Positive77% of 987 reviews2021
    Developer: Anomaly Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 74%

    The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

  47. #47 Relooted
    57% matchVery Positive86% of 238 reviews2026
    Developer: Nyamakop
    Platforms: Windows

    Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can.

  48. #48 Long Gone Days
    57% matchVery Positive89% of 549 reviews2023
    Developer: This I DreamtPublisher: Serenity Forge
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 4.6h≥1hr: 89%

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

  49. #49 Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
    58% matchVery Positive87% of 425 reviews2019
    Developer: Artifex Mundi
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 92%

    Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …

  50. #50 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
    57% matchVery Positive87% of 741 reviews2023
    Developer: Maestro CinetikPublisher: Gaming at Work
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 30mMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 42%

    A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!

  51. #51 Through the Darkest of Times
    58% matchVery Positive84% of 1,135 reviews2020
    Developer: Paintbucket GamesPublisher: HandyGames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.7hMean: 6.8h≥1hr: 61%

    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.

  52. #52 Obama Boss Fight
    57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 809 reviews2021
    Developer: xXx_Skipper_xXx
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 3.1h≥1hr: 61%

    In the world where all answers were told the great enemies confronted each other. The time has come. Time to defeat Obama once and for all. Will the world be free from racism or you will start a new era? It is up to you. But keep in mind... Obama has no chill.

  53. #53 FREE DUROV
    57% matchVery Positive91% of 328 reviews2024
    Developer: RASKUMAR TEAMPublisher: RSK TEAM
    Platforms: Windows

    FREE DUROV – Dive into the most meme-worthy horror game. Experience the hardships of prison life and try to escape by securing the encryption keys. Save anonymity!

  54. #54 Border Force
    59% matchMostly Negative35% of 88 reviews2019
    Developer: Spire Interactive
    Platforms: Windows

    It is 10:59PM on March 29th 2019. With one minute to go until Britain's exit from the European Union is formalised, you are ready to get to work. The UK's safety is in your hands. You are Border Force.

  55. #55 Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
    57% matchVery Positive93% of 722 reviews2018
    Developer: Nostalgames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.3hMean: 13.9h≥1hr: 88%

    The confrontation between the East and the West is coming to an end, but not between East and West Germany. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Kohl have already decided...

  56. #56 Act of War: Direct Action
    58% matchVery Positive91% of 603 reviews2008
    Developer: Eugen SystemsPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 56%

    Tomorrow's War Is NOW Ripped from today's headlines, Act of War: Direct Action™ is a frightening tale of suspense, international intrigue and geopolitical military conflict. This real-time strategy experience puts you squarely in control of counterterrorist forces and delivers a first look at tomorrow's war.

  57. #57 For the People
    57% matchMostly Positive74% of 788 reviews2020
    Developer: Brezg StudioPublisher: 101XP
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.3hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 72%

    For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

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