POLITICAL ARENA is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim sandbox about American politics.
Seek fame or infamy in a richly simulated political world, complete with high stakes legislative strategizing, backroom deals and the press. Customize and play as the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
Tailor your politician’s appearance, personality, views, ideology, influence, skills and agenda.
Customize the partisan breakdown of congress, the president’s party and ideology, what the filibuster threshold is and just how partisan and ideological the world is. See how these settings impact outcomes and your style of play.
Make your agenda a reality by drafting bills impacting dozens of policies.
Lobby the White House to see your agenda placed front and center, even being featured in the Inauguration and State of the Union.
Work behind the scenes to secure votes for your legislation and lobby for your bills, even during a vote.
Each NPC’s agenda and personality shapes their behavior: how likely they are to break promises, remember their friends, punish their enemies.
NPCs evolve over time, cultivating alliances, grudges and reputations.
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The core mechanics are excellent and much better than i anticipated, it isn't that alien from the political process, some features that would be cool in the future would be writing at least the opening sentence of your bills, and the ability to negotiate with others with multiple dialogue branches, also being able to accept bribes through PAC'S to introduce bills would be cool, and maybe using that money to swing votes down the line and spending it on other legislators who have similar views to your own, and basically more whipping in general would be great. i know this is early access so i'm sure their will be features released down the line, but i'm looking forward to this and seeing what the team come up with
Honestly? I like what they're doing here but it needs some work. I didn't see any ingame option for feedback so I'm just including it here. 1. The timer needs to have an option to pause at "EVERY" event. Not just votes. I found myself missing updates when multiple events occur at the same time as a vote and I don't even get to see them. 2. With A.I. voice overs there is no reason this entire game can't be voice acted. It should also have moving images for backgrounds. Not just single frame artwork. The balloons should wave. Confetti should move, all that good stuff. 3. Institute a "feedback" option in-game. I think thats all I've got for now and I will recommend this just because I'm a sucker for political simulators, which are a very underated game option.
very fun
Plenty of potential with some good bones. I am hopeful that this could turn into the West Wing simulator i have been waiting for.
A neat political simulator with a lot of potential
Political Arena costs $11.99. Currently 20% off!
Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0 Storage: 5 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 5 GB available space
Political Arena is available on Windows PC, macOS.
Political Arena has 86% positive reviews from 7 players.
Political Arena was released on Sep 2, 2025.
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