Brilliant
A nicely executed reminder that our society and politics are based on a large number of compromises - or else even the best intentions lead to a disaster. Next time your politician makes a decision that does not align with the party line, remember this game!
Solid game
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, eat it, give birth to it.
Fantastic
Great game
Simplified But Top-Tier
Few games manage to accurately portray politics in such a manner while still keeping things simple enough for anybody to play. It’s the biggest “what if” scenario that can be played over and over without exhaustion. Finding proper balances between meeting your goals and ensuring you don’t spend too much, all while attempting to maintain your electorate makes for some serious entertainment. On top of that, the steampunk animal theme that comes with it provides equally as much enjoyment as you determine how to keep the nation from tearing itself apart. The only criticism I would add is the completely irregular cycle in which events come can make it very hard to hold a sense of direction midway through each game. Overall very well done though.
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Top notch political simulation
As a fellow Leftist, I deeply enjoy this game. Sure, it is focused on a very improbable reality, but a fantasy can still blossom a sense of pride for most. Unfortunately, what is applied here is considered “radical” in our American political climate when it should be fundamental, but I won’t dive into that element deeply for the sake of brevity. I do, on the other hand, think that some improvement can be made. Firstly, I would pay to see what it would be like to get to play for longer than two terms. We can’t just let FDR be the only one, right? Another thing, I think that the music could be a bit more original. I love it and I totally get it, the music has a background, it fits to the theme, but I think something new can get our minds off the past and on to a better future. A future of reform. But, otherwise, it’s a nice use of the chorus of “Solidarity Forever” and the tune to “The Internationale”. Overall, it the best-ish game of its type (up next to Reigns).
We must embrace communism ☭
We must embrace communism ☭
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Entertaining Propaganda
The biggest note here are the wildly inaccurate budget values, e.g. you can offset huge entitlements with a tax on the .1%, or that your baseline for these policy discussions starts in the black to begin with.
One of the most substantive criticisms of socialist policy in modern America (which is the barely disguised setting for this game) is that they are doubling down on policies that have already soaked our finances in red. This game would be great if it started the player teetering on hyperinflation and had to decide what to do from there.
One last note, while it’s absolutely propaganda with a clear agenda (from the name, to most of the policies on offer, to the forced sovereign wealth fund instead of offering tax cuts mechanic, to the fact that it LITERALLY congratulates you for helping get another democrat elected at the end) I was able to get fairly successful outcomes running strictly libertarian policies.
One of the most substantive criticisms of socialist policy in modern America (which is the barely disguised setting for this game) is that they are doubling down on policies that have already soaked our finances in red. This game would be great if it started the player teetering on hyperinflation and had to decide what to do from there.
One last note, while it’s absolutely propaganda with a clear agenda (from the name, to most of the policies on offer, to the forced sovereign wealth fund instead of offering tax cuts mechanic, to the fact that it LITERALLY congratulates you for helping get another democrat elected at the end) I was able to get fairly successful outcomes running strictly libertarian policies.
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good game but..
good game..
but its upside down
and i cant flip it for some reason.
but its upside down
and i cant flip it for some reason.
Fun little gem
This game was a great find and a fun relaxing game. The commentary and writing had some great jabs that made me laugh. I would love to see the developers create more content or new “packs” that would add more cards to the mix. The only complaint is that when playing on an iPad landscape mode only works in one direction. When the iPad is attached to my keyboard/cover it make the game upside down.
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Great game :)
Really good game, enjoyed thoroughly, only few things I’d say would be good to add would be a save button so you can leave and come back to your game, and maybe the option play as another candidate after your 8 years. But all around really good game :)
Revolution
This game is fun and has a lot of potential, but what I think it does best is showing us the limits inherent to democratic socialism and any attempt to build socialism from within the system. In the game as in life, you can only get as much socialism done as the conservatives in government will let you, with the possibility that they just tear it down later. You can’t create real, systemic change without actually changing the system, and I think this game highlights the issues inherent in any attempt to do that.
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