Games like The Political Machine
If The Political Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Democracy 3, The Political Machine 2016 and Just Power: The Papal States — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its create ridiculous custom candidates, challenging and comedic. 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 →About The Political Machine: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Political Machine also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Top pick for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
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 comedic mood with The Political Machine.
Second-strongest match for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
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.
Just Power: The Papal States
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Are you ready to found a dynasty which controls the Holy See over the centuries? Climb the hierarchies, hire your relatives, blackmail and bribe to get everything you want in this turn-based political simulator.
Victoria 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Ranked #5 for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Secret Government
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Ranked #6 for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.
1992: Rasputie
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Ranked #8 for The Political Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from Stardock Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Stardock Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Galactic Civilizations III
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Galactic Civilizations IV
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
Star Control®: Origins
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine.
Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Political Machine.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind The Political Machine. Shares Strategy with The Political Machine.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
Frequently asked about The Political Machine
- Does The Political Machine have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Political Machine supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Political Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Political Machine are Democracy 3, The Political Machine 2016, Just Power: The Papal States.
- Who developed The Political Machine?
- The Political Machine was developed by Stardock Entertainment.
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