Games like Political Animals
If Political Animals is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Political Machine 2016, CAPITALISM The action board game for one player and Election: Run for President — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaign resource management matters, 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 Political Animals: Political Animals is an election campaign simulation game set within a world populated by corrupt crocodiles and meritocratic mice. In a political contest where corruption is always around the corner, can you win without getting your paws dirty?
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Steam players who put hours into Political Animals 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.
The Political Machine 2016
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Political Animals.
Top pick for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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.
CAPITALISM The action board game for one player
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
'CAPITALISM The action board game for one player' is a real-time board game/ card game hybrid with minigames.
Election: Run for President
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
Run for President is a fun, fast-paced election simulator that blends strategy, civics, and gameplay into an experience kids and adults can enjoy together. Play head-to-head like a board game using a single iPad/iPhone, or use it as an engaging classroom learning tool.
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Ranked #4 for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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.
Arms Race 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Ranked #5 for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
Arms Race 2 is a PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR that took place in the 20th century.
Fate of the World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Ranked #6 for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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...
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Political Animals.
Ranked #7 for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Political Animals.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Ranked #8 for Political Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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...
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The Political Machine 2016
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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.
SpaceChem
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Political Animals.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
This Is the Police
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
The Political Machine 2020
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and take the 2020 presidential election by storm in Stardock’s popular political strategy game. Choose a candidate and run against a computer opponent or a candidate controlled by another person over the Internet.
Geo-Political Simulator 5
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Political Animals.
Reviewers of Political Animals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Political Animals.
The new 5th edition of the hyperrealistic global simulator game where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition or the president of a large multinational company, with a completely redesigned interface, a new ultra-detailed map, complete control of companies and new scenarios for 2024.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Political Animals at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Political Animals.
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 Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
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 Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Political Animals.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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 Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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 Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Political Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Political Animals.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Political Animals.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Political Animals.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Political Animals.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Political Animals
- How much does Political Animals cost?
- Political Animals is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Political Animals have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Political Animals supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Political Animals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Political Animals are The Political Machine 2016, CAPITALISM The action board game for one player, Election: Run for President.
- Who developed Political Animals?
- Political Animals was developed by Squeaky Wheel and published by Positech Games.
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