Best Political Games on Steam
Games about ideology, policy, institutions, campaigns, power, or public conflict.
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1Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.
Feb 4, 2025
In this game, you can…
- get ambushed mid-wagon ride, fight beside guards, then keep chatting like nothing happened.
- have towns remember your thefts so people grow suspicious, change locks, and hire guards.
- win a tournament, then get spared by would-be attackers who recognize you later in the street.
- pick a lock in a sleeping house, loot the chest, slip through a garden, and vanish into the trees unseen.
- walk through a world where every NPC works, goes to the pub, then sleeps on a daily routine.
- travel while conversations keep happening in motion, with jokes and gossip continuing through the journey.
- bathe, eat, and wear clean clothes because shopkeepers and strangers treat you differently when you look filthy.
- bring a dog companion that can track, help in fights, and still needs feeding and petting like a real animal.
2Crusader Kings III - Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Sep 1, 2020
In this game, you can…
- make the pope your vassal, imprison him over a feast insult, seize Rome, force-convert him, and banish him.
- create a custom religion with rules like forced nudity or ritual cannibalism, then use conversion to control and humiliate rivals.
- start as a two-year-old empress, face near-total revolt, then grow into a famous conqueror and reformer.
- play a dynasty where you die, then keep ruling as your heir.
- lose your wife to concubinage, rescue her decades later, then adopt a feral "wolf-boy" and raise him into a kingdom-building heir.
- turn a rumor into a chain of spying, blackmail, secret murders, and a land-claim war that drags the whole realm into marching armies.
- breed a "perfect heir" through dynasty genetics until your family tree becomes strategically useful and completely tangled.
- revoke an empire's election laws with a single decision, then deal with powerful nobles resisting the change and testing your rule.
3Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - 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.
Oct 15, 2019
In this game, you can…
- wake up with no memory and have your necktie talk to you
- set up a nightclub and drug lab in an abandoned church during a homicide investigation
- hunt a creature unknown to science and eventually meet the Insulindian Phasmid
- listen to 24 inner voices argue and vote on what you do next
- fail key checks and get new scenes and dialogue instead of a reload screen
- solve a murder while also tracking down your own name, badge, shoes, and lost past
- talk to the city like it's a living thing that whispers history through you
- shape your politics through play and still get called a liberal by the biggest communist you meet
4BioShock™ - BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
Aug 21, 2007
In this game, you can…
- survive a plane crash, find a lighthouse, pull a lever, and descend into a glowing art-deco city built under the ocean.
- hypnotize one Big Daddy to fight another, then wade in while they tear each other apart.
- kill a Big Daddy, then choose whether to harvest or rescue the Little Sister it was protecting.
- shoot electricity into a puddle and fry everyone standing in it.
- freeze an attacker solid, then smash them to pieces with a wrench.
- hack a turret or security camera, then let it turn on enemies instead of you.
- hack vending machines and first-aid stations to cut prices and change what they do.
- piece together a whole city's collapse by finding scattered audio diaries and following the clues they leave behind.
5Beholder - 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.
6Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
Dec 8, 2024
In this game, you can…
- end up fistfighting a karate expert on top of Noah's Ark after chasing artifacts around the world.
- spend hours roaming the Vatican, photographing cats, and stealing biscotti while you dig through archives and hidden ruins.
- use your whip to distract, disarm, pull enemies closer, flick far-off levers, grab objects, and climb or swing over patrols.
- recreate the Raiders opening, boulder chase and all.
- knock out a guard with a shovel, throw it at the next guy, whip a third enemy's gun away, then rush in with a haymaker.
- wear a disguise to blend into enemy territory, then decide whether to keep sneaking or start a full-on brawl when it falls apart.
- play detective in open zones by using your notebook and camera to spot details, photograph clues, and solve puzzles from the environment.
- go most of the game without firing a single gunshot, relying on fists, melee weapons, and the whip instead.
7Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You - Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Oct 27, 2016
In this game, you can…
- decide which conflicting version of events becomes the official truth, and watch authorities act on the story you chose.
- report a harmless detail in the wrong context and trigger real fallout, like government action that strains someone's relationship.
- race against time in later chapters while superiors demand specific intel, uploading the right mix of snippets as events unfold in the background.
- rifle through someone's web history, social feeds, emails, bank statements, and medical files, then drag chosen snippets into a government case file.
- turn a phone number on a social post into tapped calls, then pivot to private emails from an address you found on a website.
- find deleted social posts and have a moment of instability become usable evidence in an investigation.
- track a bomb-plot suspect from CCTV to their activist circle, then follow the trail into a deeper conspiracy as new names connect.
- withhold a suspicious-looking snippet to protect someone, then later see similar misread data used to label a person as a torturer.
- reach branching endings where who gets arrested or freed depends on what you submitted, what you hid, and what you marked as "relevant."
8The Talos Principle 2 - The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Nov 2, 2023
In this game, you can…
- split yourself across multiple bodies by swapping minds into clone shells, then cooperate with yourself to solve a room
- drill holes through walls, then use the new opening to reroute beams and rethink the entire puzzle space
- influence a late-game society-wide vote through your relationships and public-answer choices, steering where the whole civilization goes
- start as the 1,000th android at a citywide birthday celebration, then get summoned by a particle cloud shaped like Prometheus while Pandora tells you to ignore it
- wander off-script, steal puzzle items out of levels, and climb places that feel like you're not supposed to reach
- walk on walls and ceilings with antigravity plates, then chain that with teleporters and moving platforms to reach impossible angles
- hold conversations that get referenced later, with characters bringing up specific things you previously said
- pet at least two cats, find cat pictures, and unlock optional dialogue about cats
9Not For Broadcast - A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Jan 25, 2022
In this game, you can…
- juggle camera cuts, audio, ads, and censorship while the control room overheats, shorts out, gets hit by lightning, and keeps trying to shut down.
- change someone's fate by what you play on-air, like tanking a career with repeated boo sounds or saving a life by timing an ad break.
- air a harmless-looking toy ad, then face a later news segment where the presenters react to the fallout from advertising it.
- switch live camera feeds and bleep words in real time, with no rewind, while the broadcast keeps rolling.
- keep a finger on the censor button as guests blurt swear words and political slip-ups you have to bleep on cue.
- keep the show on air while new problems stack up, from signal interference to stuffed-toy chaos to fending off a murderer mid-broadcast.
- broadcast a scandal live when a public official's hidden sex-dungeon story explodes on camera during an interview.
- rewatch the entire broadcast afterward and see everything that was happening off-camera while you were switching feeds.
- shape the country's politics by what you choose to show, making the ruling party's rise and the slide into authoritarianism play out on-air.
10Suzerain - 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?
Dec 4, 2020
In this game, you can…
- reform the country successfully, then have one seemingly minor phone call flip your fate into dying in prison.
- rewrite the constitution and squeak it through by a single vote.
- watch your spouse get seduced by a foreign president at a state party while your administration falls apart around you.
- pass sweeping democratic reforms, then watch half your cabinet resign as a neighboring country declares war.
- build the country back from recession, modernize highways and an airport, then end up captured and executed after losing an invasion.
- fund women's and minority rights, trigger riots, and get couped by the military anyway.
- seize power into a dictatorship, crush rival parties, and then face dam seizures, riots, and a border crisis that can spiral into war.
- get betrayed inside your own party and pushed out of power even after landing major reforms.
