Single-player games like Political Animals
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Political Animals, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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The Political Machine 2016
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Democracy 3
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Tropico 3
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Political Animals.
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
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The Political Process
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
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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Politics The Game
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Political Animals.
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
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Fate of the World
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Gremlins, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
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Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Political Animals.
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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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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This Is the Police
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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The Political Machine 2020
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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The Political Simulator
Single-player alternative to Political Animals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Political Animals.
Create a candidate and run a Presidential campaign across the United States. Improve your approval rating with battleground voters and try to earn enough support to win on election night. The campaign mode allows you to take part in a turn-based strategic campaign where every decision matters.