Comparison

Demagogue vs Conclave

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Demagogue

A satirical political simulator and roguelike strategy game where you build a party, forge coalitions, pass laws, and manage crises. Experience the messy reality of holding power, from a political nobody to a high office. Juggle your private life and navigate corruption to stay in power.

Highlights
  • Build and manage your own political party
  • Negotiate fragile coalitions and ministries
  • Pass laws and dictate policy
  • Manage absurd crises and events
  • Juggle private life and family interests
  • Multiple game modes including campaign and multiplayer
Features
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Have you always thought while reading the news: "How hard can governing actually be?" WELCOME TO DEMAGOGUE The satirical political simulator and roguelike strategy game. From a political nobody to the german Chancellor's office: start your own party, forge fragile coalitions, negotiate ministries, and pass laws. Whether you govern idealistically, pragmatically, populistically, or completely immune to advice is up to you. YOUR TASKS: • Build a party: Choose a name and color, and fight your way through elections. • Negotiate coalitions: Secure majorities, even when it hurts. • Pass laws: From a "butter knife ban" to tax reform. You dictate policy. • Manage crises: React to absurd events (what to do with a stranded whale?) and keep an eye on the Kebab Price Index. • Cut deals: Navigate between lobbying, corruption, and state finances. • Juggle your private life: Answer chat messages. Negotiate the particular political interests of your family and best friend, which directly influence your decisions. FOUR GAME MODES: • Campaign: The guided intro with a story. (Free to play) • Free Play: Govern for as long as possible and test how stable your political era really is. • Sandbox: Freely customize starting conditions, parties, and rules to simulate custom scenarios. • Duel: Challenge your friends. Everyone creates their own party, and whoever stays in power longer wins. Politics is rarely rosy. Most of the time, it's frustrating, messy, and full of compromises. Experience the dirty reality of holding power firsthand. How long will you stay in power? Will you hold on to your values - or will you use the tempting tools of populism? Download Demagogue now and find out!

About

Conclave

A fictional strategy game where you make decisions by swiping left or right to manage four key forces. Your choices have immediate and delayed consequences, leading to multiple endings and shaping your pontificate.

Highlights
  • Swipe-based decision making
  • Balance four competing forces
  • Hidden effects and delayed consequences
  • Branching story chains
  • Multiple endings
  • Daily seeded challenges
  • Codex with statistics and unlockables
Features
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Take the throne and begin your pontificate in Conclave, a fictional swipe-based strategy game where every decision can change the course of your reign. Each card presents a dilemma. Swipe left or right to choose your response, then live with the consequences. Keep four forces in balance — the Faithful, the Curia, the Treasury and Tradition. Let any one of them fall too low or rise too high, and your reign may come to an abrupt end. But not every consequence arrives immediately. Decisions can unlock story chains that return years later, forcing you to face the results of choices you thought were long behind you. FEATURES • Simple swipe decisions with strategic consequences • Four competing meters to balance • Hidden effects that keep every choice uncertain • Story chains shaped by earlier decisions • Multiple endings, including legacy endings for long reigns • Codex with discovered endings, lifetime statistics and unlockable characters • Daily Conclave: a shared seeded challenge with the same setup for everyone that day • Counsel to reveal a card’s exact effects • One second chance per regular reign • Share your final reign and challenge others • Sound, haptics and atmospheric presentation • English interface options How will history remember your pontificate — as a reformer, a traditionalist, a survivor, or something else entirely? Your reign begins with a single swipe.

Screenshots

Demagogue4 screens
Conclave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Demagogue at none against Conclave's shown. Demagogue also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Conclave's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Demagogue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Conclave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Conclave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Demagogue has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Demagogue ships an update every 6 days, Conclave fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Demagogue versus Conclave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDemagogueConclave
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB68 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMael PicornellLars Ghezzi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Demagogue

One-time1
  • Volksvertreter Full Version$3.99
1 purchases

Conclave

One-time1
  • Conclave Premium$5.99

Questions

Is Demagogue free?
Demagogue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Conclave free?
Conclave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Demagogue or Conclave?
Conclave is rated higher. Demagogue averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Conclave averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Demagogue or Conclave have ads?
Conclave shows ads; Demagogue does not.
Which is updated more often, Demagogue or Conclave?
Demagogue ships an update every 6 days, and Conclave fortnightly. Most recently, Demagogue was updated on November 9, 2026 and Conclave on October 31, 2026.

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