Best Political Games on Steam
Games about ideology, policy, institutions, campaigns, power, or public conflict.
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1Beholder
- Players say: As a state-appointed landlord, spy on tenants, report or exploit them, and juggle your family's survival under totalitarian rule. Players like: Dystopian Atmosphere · Moral Dilemmas · Consequential Choices
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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?
Nov 9, 2016
In this game, you can…
- plant illegal items in someone's home, report them, and watch them get dragged out in handcuffs.
- turn petty new laws into leverage by catching people with apples, books, jeans, or even crying in public.
- bribe a doctor with a prostitute for your daughter's medicine, then arrest him for reading a medical book.
- install surveillance cameras and use a master key to enter every apartment once tenants leave.
- peek through keyholes, search bedrooms, and use what you find to blackmail people the same day they move in.
- fake crimes when you can't find any by fabricating reports, planting evidence, and extorting tenants to survive.
- help dissidents on the side, sell state secrets to spies, and even smuggle people out using a cargo ship contact.
2Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
- Players say: Lead East Germany or another socialist state through late-Cold-War crises, balancing reforms, public support, party unity, and budgets. Players like: Alternate-History Paths · Distinct Country Campaigns · Historical Atmosphere
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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...
Mar 25, 2018
In this game, you can…
- sell stolen nuclear designs to North Korea as East Germany.
- derail a train full of Polish diplomats and Western dignitaries to stop Poland joining NATO.
- poison Noriega after the US extracts him, frame it as US torture, and trigger worldwide outrage.
- bribe India.
- buy nuclear weapon plans from Romania and start your own bomb program before your economy collapses.
- comply with Moscow's demand for free elections, win anyway, then privatize factories and escalate your power plays against the Soviets.
- build nuclear weapons fast, then use nuclear threats to keep countries from breaking away from your bloc.
- keep the CMEA and Warsaw Pact alive, crush westalgia, and max living standards by trading away democracy, open borders, and foreign help.
- restore the monarchy, go Strasserist Germany, or otherwise reinvent your state's ideology mid-collapse.
3Tonight We Riot
- Players say: Lead a crowd of workers through a dystopian 2D beat ’em up, fighting enemies and rescuing comrades to strengthen the revolt. Players like: Political Class Conflict · Pixel Art · Humorous Tone
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A revolutionary crowd-based retro brawler
May 7, 2020
In this game, you can…
- play as a whole crowd of workers instead of one hero.
- get knocked out and instantly take over another worker in your mob.
- turn certain enemies into allies by killing the right cop or commander first.
- grow the mob mid-level by liberating workers, then keep them alive to rank up.
- swarm tanks, turret trucks, and giant mechs with a hail of bricks and bombs.
- fill the screen with synchronized projectiles when a big crowd throws at once.
- rip through riot cops with a chainsaw while the rest of your mob piles in.
- unlock satirical newspaper headlines between stages as you progress.
4The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
- The Majority of People navigate progress, politics and preposterous propulsive plans in this satirical point-and-click adventure. Featuring highly debatable democracy, problematic project managers and the belief that Anthony's underdeveloped prefrontal cortex will lead to your salvation!
Feb 9, 2016
5Day Repeat Day
- Day Repeat Day is a story based match-3 game about life, work and the meaning of it all.
Apr 13, 2021
6Tokyo Coffee: Grinding in the Pandemic
- Remembering the COVID-19 pandemic... It started in the year 2020. The events that unfolded in a cafe in Tokyo are now a nostalgic memory. Sit back, brew yourself a hot cup of coffee (or tea), and immerse yourself in the stories of the staff and different customers who visited the cafe.
Aug 9, 2024
7Gerrymander Madness
- Gerrymander Madness places gamers into a fictional North Carolina legislator's office and allows them to manipulate the districts of a state map to gain political advantage for a chosen party.
Jul 28, 2020
8Red Man
- A small city deprived of any freedom of thought under a dictator's rule, spread the seed of resistance and free people from oppression!
Jun 29, 2021
9Aenaon
- It's time to compete in the ancient Olympic Games, but apart from sports, you also have to prepare your spirit. We welcome you to ancient Greek culture!
Jul 26, 2020
