Games like Election: Run for President
If Election: Run for President is your kind of game, the closest matches are SYRAK: the War in the Middle-East, Age of History 2: Definitive Edition and Political Animals — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Election: Run for President: 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.
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SYRAK: the War in the Middle-East
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Top pick for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
SYRAK is a card-based strategy game set during the most complex war in recent history of the Middle-East. Local or Online game have you play as the Resistance Axis or the Western Defence Organization. Use powerful Political, Espionage and Military Cards to outwit and overwhelm your opponent.
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
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Second-strongest match for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
Political Animals
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Third-strongest match for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
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?
Victoria 3
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Ranked #4 for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
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.
RIOT: Civil Unrest
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Ranked #5 for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.
Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
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Ranked #6 for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
Answer the summons of the trumpets and bear the burden of the Twilight Struggle. Set during the ideological tension of the Cold War, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea places the United States and the Soviet Union at odds in the Horn of Africa. Every choice you make will impact the balance of power.
SGS NATO's Nightmare
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Ranked #7 for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
What if the Warsaw Pact had attacked NATO in the mid-1980s. Or the other way around? Study this titanic conflict, within its most emblematic theater, Germany and Central Europe. Will you be able to achieve your goals without escalating into an uncontrollable nuclear conflict?
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
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Ranked #8 for Election: Run for President fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Election: Run for President at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
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
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Election: Run for President.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
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
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Election: Run for President.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Election: Run for President.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Election: Run for President.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Election: Run for President on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Election: Run for President.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
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?
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Election: Run for President.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Election: Run for President.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Election: Run for President.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Election: Run for President.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Election: Run for President
- How much does Election: Run for President cost?
- Election: Run for President is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Election: Run for President have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Election: Run for President supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Election: Run for President?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Election: Run for President are SYRAK: the War in the Middle-East, Age of History 2: Definitive Edition, Political Animals.
- Who developed Election: Run for President?
- Election: Run for President was developed by Digomind.
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