Games like The Political Process
If The Political Process is your kind of game, the closest matches are Democracy 3, The Political Machine 2016 and Lawgivers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Political Process is a turn-based political simulation and strategy game set in the American political system. Players create a character and navigate campaigns from school board races to presidential bids, engaging with election mechanics including judicial review, legislative crafting, and policy effect tracking as they progress through an office hierarchy. Reviewers describe the depth of the election simulation as extensive, while players highlight that it teaches real-world political mechanics. The game features moddable systems for customization and supports massive playthroughs with a chill difficulty setting for relaxed sessions. Currently in early access with an active developer community, it holds a 96% positive rating from over 1,800 Steam reviews.
About The Political Process: 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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Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Process.
Top pick for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
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.
The Political Machine 2016
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Process.
Second-strongest match for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Run for President of the United States as one of dozens of past or present presidential candidates or create your own ideal candidate. Give speeches, go on talk shows, hire unsavory operatives, and do whatever it takes to win on election day.
Lawgivers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Political Process.
Third-strongest match for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Political Process.
Lawgivers is a turn-based political simulation game. Run for elections with your own party and enter parliament to approve or abolish laws. Appoint the president and decide whether you want a democracy or just a fake one instead.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Political Process.
Ranked #5 for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
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...
Fate of the World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Process.
Ranked #6 for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...
The Political Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Process.
Ranked #7 for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Process.
Do you have what it takes to be president?Play as more than 20 candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or create your own candidate from scratch.Players take to the campaign trail against a computer controlled opponent or a human challenger over the Internet.
Lawgivers II
WHY THIS
Shares election simulation and an intense mood with The Political Process.
Ranked #8 for The Political Process fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Political Process at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Political Process.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Political Process.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with The Political Process.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Political Process.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Political Process.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Political Process on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Political Process.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Soda Dungeon 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Political Process.
Everyone’s favorite laid-back dungeon crawler returns in Soda Dungeon 2. Featuring a new adventure, a whole town to upgrade, crafting, new classes, alternate dimensions, and more! It’s everything you loved about the original plus all the stuff you’ve been asking for.
Idle Research
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
Are you ready to RUMMMBLE?
Prismata
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Political Process.
A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.
Not For Broadcast: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Political Process.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Political Process
- Does The Political Process run on Steam Deck?
- The Political Process is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Political Process cost?
- The Political Process is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Political Process?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Political Process are Democracy 3, The Political Machine 2016, Lawgivers.
- Who developed The Political Process?
- The Political Process was developed by Verlumino Studios LLC.
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