Victoria II
“Ugh… What could’ve been… Praise KEK that I at least have my videogames to live out my epic power fantasies”
– Real player with 1707.9 hrs in game
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Really fun game once you get the hang of it, and If you ever get bored of the base vanilla content, there’s so much creative and fun community mods that gives the game infinite replayability
– Real player with 1442.6 hrs in game
Lawgivers II
The sequel to Lawgivers is in the works!! Join our communities and contribute to one of the most ambitious political simulation game!
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game which offers multiple ways to experience the process of ruling and approving bills. Start your political adventure from the very bottom and perhaps lead your nation one day to become the most influential in the world.
World
The game comes with a world map featuring the most well-known nations and up to two levels of administrative subdivisions. Players will have comfortable filters to display population, relations, gdp growth, election outcomes by districs, etc.
Parliament
Enter the parliament/congress with your lawmakers to approve or abolish laws in a much expanded and realistic way. Elect the speaker of the house to watch over parliamentary democracy and set up committees for personalized laws. Request a secret vote, or ask for impeachment. Many graphs will assist players with their choice.
Government
Run for the highest seat in presidential and semi-presidential republics or become the prime minister in parliamentary republics. Form a government alone or with a coalition of party and try to survive motions of no confidence. Bypass the parliament if necessary to satisfy your needs but be prepared to face the consequences.
Laws
Personalize and approve laws like never before. With constitutional amendments you can control the workflow of the most important institutions of the country. Players will enjoy total freedom of choosing whether to insert a bill in constitution or just approve it as an ordinary law.
Lawmakers
In Lawgivers II all lawmakers will have their own opinion about laws and way to rule. If there are to many points of view in a party, some politicians might leave it or found another one. Check out their personal history and be sure to have their trust.
Organisations and Lobbies
Organisations and Lobbies might achieve a lot of influence in your country. Ask them for support by hiring one of their gentlemen or try to practice honest and clean politics.
War & Trade
Raise your influence over the world and secure important resources for your country. Corrupt other parties in poorer countries or organise “legal” referendums to annect other regions. Enter war with other nations in order to reach economic and political supremacy.
Multiplayer
Join with your friends in a coalition to form the government, rr simply stay in opposition and get ready for your first chance to grab power. (The multiplayer will be available at a later development stage)
Mods
The game will come with Steamworks support. Modders will be able to add new countries, laws, events, resources, ideologies and more content just with a simple text editor. The appearance of lawmakers will be completely cutomizable too so you can draw and import your favourite politicians.
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Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
I know it says I’ve played 250+ hours of this game, and I’ve certainly played quite a few, but probably half of that is letting the game run on its own while I was asleep, or having fallen asleep playing it.
The concept behind the game is really great, and I wish it had been implemented in a way that made it fun to play, but it wasn’t.
I did play the original (SR2010) and it is certainly an improvement over that version - less buggy, better controls. But the core problems with the franchise remain.
– Real player with 827.1 hrs in game
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Absolute gold, one of a kind game that was arguably the peak of what Supreme Ruler or any strategy games to date ought to be. If you want a more arcady experience or more historical titles buy the Ultimate edition and play the 2020 or Global Crisis scenario instead. But for me, there’s just something about this cruder original version of the game that is lost on the new ones.
Key changes between this and Ultimate:
Positive
-World Markets make sense, prices go from 10-1000% the baseline and are independent of your production cost. And trade MUST happen between players, resources do not materialize out of the blue.
– Real player with 680.9 hrs in game
Realpolitiks
I have owned Realpolitks for a week now, so far I love it. It is a very good Grand Strategy Game, many people don’t like it and I see why, however here are the pros and cons in my opinion.
PROS
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You can play as every country in the world, minus a few very small countries (e.g Figi).
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You can start in the years 2020, 2050 and 2222, which all have different countries and starting points.
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Very good starter game for anyone wishing to get into the Grand Strategy Genre, not to many aspects to learn, quite minimal.
– Real player with 215.7 hrs in game
Realpolitiks Review
Nostalgia Goggles Factor: None
Crash Factor: Crashless
Bug Factor: High
A Polish-made Grand Strategy game set in our Information age. Starting in 2020.
The Good
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3 starting dates; 2020, being similar to our world today, 2050, a post-apocalyptic setting and 2222, where nearly every province is it’s own country.
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Play as any country.
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Every start date has it’s own time limit, 2020 ends in 2100, for example. When the end date is reached, the country with the highest score will be the winner. However, it can be much more fun to simply ignore the score game and just play it like a sandbox, setting your own goals. You can play past the end date.
– Real player with 152.9 hrs in game
SuperPower 2 Steam Edition
The Year is 2015.
I am the new Prince of Monaco.
Little do they know that I am a semi-GOD who has the gift of Immortality.
From day one I start my rule by granting all rights like Poligamy, Same Sex Marriage and Legalising Drugs; soon, hedonistic parties and drug filled orgies would be a common thing to find in the streets of Larvotto and in the high-rises of Fontvieille.
I banned all the heretic foreign languages and forced everyone to speak the divine Monegasque.
But it wasn’t enough, I needed to expand my faith despite having only 30000 loyal servants to my cause.
– Real player with 935.7 hrs in game
This game is fun. HOWEVER it’s got issues that become hard to ignore the more you play. Especailly if you know anything about developmental economics.
1. The vanilla game doesn’t handle population very well. The population of any country will continue to grow untill the game crashes. Some mods (Human develoment for example) try to address this issue but end up with the opposite problem where countries will decrease in population untill their economy breaks down and they fall into anarchy. There’s basically nothing you can do to prevent either of these fates.
– Real player with 866.8 hrs in game
The Commission 1920: Organized Crime Grand Strategy
My previous review still applies…times 1000
I don’t care if this game takes forever to win!
I am the boss of a crime family!
What I say goes!
DO NOT come into my territory!
I AM “Scarface” Al Capone, Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti, Bumpy Johnson, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, James Cagney & Humphrey Bogart in “The Roaring Twenties”, Edward G Robinson in “Little Caesar”, Vito Corleone, Sonny Corleone, Michael Corleone, the guy who cut off the horses head and somehow got it up the stairs and under the sheets without waking anyone or leaving a blood trail and everyone else rolled into one!
– Real player with 52.4 hrs in game
To give this little gem a thumbs up was kind of a margin call. I do love Mafia games and grand strategy games and this one made it into my heart but there are a number of things that could and should be improved.
But let´s go with the PRO´s first:
PROs:
-) Easy to understand the game mechanics and therefore you can play right away and have fun
-) nice graphics and funny nicknames of the mobsters
-) Many different traits that can give you benefits for your rackets and therefore allow different approaches to grow your family operations (such as mobsters with specialisation or neighbourhoods that prefer a certain racket like gambling or upgrades after you have a number of the same rackets running etc…)
– Real player with 42.5 hrs in game
苏维埃模拟器 Soviet Simulator
Game Contents
Note：Contents in screenshots are in the development, especially numerical values.
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Make USSR Great Again！
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Play as the high authority of USSR from Dec 30, 1922. Nobody knows USSR better than you! Control USSR’s Policies, economy, industry, military, diplomatics affairs. Can you plant the red flag on Reichstag?
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It’s not a realtime game like Paradox games. It’s turn-based. You can deal with affairs at the end of every month.
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Plan the industry schedule according to the requirement of people. Product consumer goods, infrastructure, T-34? It’s up to you.
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Plan the import and export schedule. You can import foods to satisfy people’s need, or export military goods to other countries in war.
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Scheme the Five-Years Plan. Every five years you can determine the way USSR’s industry structure goes forwards.
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Strike Fascism! Knowing the real world history, can you prepare Operation Barbarossa well?
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A war system dominated by ground force, supported by airforce, meanwhile navy withstands the trade routes.
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Natural science, engineering and social science technology trees.
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Can you avoid the mistakes USSR made in history, even though they may the best choices at that situation?
Game Features
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Events in game are mostly real events in history. There may also be magic alternative history event. (Trotsky is coming back!)
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Content based on fully textual research.
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Include lots of capitalism jokes.
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You can listen to Soviet military music and classic music with the radio on the desk.
Masters of the World - Geopolitical Simulator 3
I highly recommend this game for anyone who is a political geek.
The game is extremely in-depth. It goes from well-known laws like freedom of speech/demonstration/religion to tiny aspects you’d never see in a geopolitical simulator; blood toxicity level, driving age, maximum age for school, and speed limits on trunk roads, city roads, and highways. It also has a very realistic atmosphere to it. Setting aside the fact the map and characters look like 90s era games, it gives the game a feel no other geopolitical simulator has given me; realism. It goes from setting meetings with political figures and world leaders, to having small talk and influencing well-known figures in your country to vote for you or support your bill publicly. When a law doesn’t pass through, a reform can be made. Adding laws into this reform that is bipartisan will increase the chances of it being passed. More features include asking nations for authorization to build a pipeline through their territory, building pipelines for oil or gas, detailed trade agreements that allow you to set the price, quantity, and duration of the agreement (Example: Russia’s Natural Gas Agreement with China that will last for 20 years), the game also allows the construction of various buildings or transportations like oil and gas pipelines, high-speed trains, nuclear power plants, oil rigs, gas and oil fields, and even increasing the number of hospitals, homes, schools, or solar fields. The game also has a very complicated economic system. I have been having trouble with it, but I did have some success as Jordan earlier. Continuing on, the game is very recent. It isn’t like SuperPower 2 where it was created just before the NATO expansion or the break-up of Serbia and Montenegro, but it was released in 2013, meaning it has the world’s youngest country, South Sudan. The game features terrorist groups in every country, ranging from the Mafia to Total Jihad groups (Al-Quaeda). You have the options to infiltrate the groups if they live in your territory, to funding them with weapons, money, and 2 semi-trucks with rockets and explosives if they are in other countries to help them take down that country’s government. But if you do this, you have the chance to be caught red-handed. And this will transfer into the news, and Parliment will impeach you. I suffered that while playing as Russia and funding New Zealand terrorists. The game offers so much detail to their options, like adding more medical staff and adding more police staff. You can also investigate politicians and well-known citizens to reveal a scandal to use against them, to spying on heads-of-state or countries to find evidence that will gain the approval of the United Nations Security Council and allow military action against the country. Which brings me to the Organizations of the game.
– Real player with 385.6 hrs in game
Despite of a few bugs Geopolitical Simulator 3 is an exceptionally clever and entertaining game! Of course strategic gaming must be your thing in order to fully appreciate MOW. It has more body than for example Civilization (which in itself is also a good game). It is very interesting to see what influence your various decisions have in the field of domestic or foreign policy, financial health, economic growth or social aspects. Also the causal relations between investing/cutting in a particular sector, creating contracts, growth, unemployment, production, trade balance, budget deficit, privitization etc..etc.. is very realistic, interesting and entertaining. Fun to read the newspaper on which impact your various decisions have, how it is presented and how well it is received by public opinion. One of the things I have learned is that you certainly can’t satisfy all of the people and organizations in a country. And most of the time it is a real challenge just to keep your head above the water. But all the more satisfying it is when you do manage to create a contract, see that the invested tax payer dollars create economic growth an jobs etc..etc..
– Real player with 150.2 hrs in game
Realpolitiks II
Edit 1: After the playing the game further and a new update I have decided to revise my review. While much of what I said still stands I wanted to add since the developer is clearly listening to the community and putting in the work. I am gunna leave what was originally said since much of it is still true but simply put apprentices on what is fixed
I also cam back to say that their are 3 new bugs in this patch
BUG 1: When at war, theaters will bug out and prevent you from attacking or doing anything leading to infinite conflict until you peace out and attempt to go to war again
– Real player with 56.5 hrs in game
I am enjoying the game so far. As Israel, I began with taking over nearby territories, Jordan, and Lebanon. Six years into the game, I had to withstand chronic invasions from Egypt and Syria simultaneously. As easily as they dispatched my military, neither of those countries attempted to send their troops to Jerusalem, where I kept the what was left of my army. This kept either side from achieving a 100 percent war score, which allowed me to keep turning down their demands until each war automatically ended after taking too long. Eventually, I was able to defeat a 3rd (or was it a 4th?) invasion from Syria without the interference of Egypt initially, but then Egypt came swooping in just as I secured a bloc agreement with Turkey. Let me tell you that it was immensely satisfying to see Turkish troops come rolling into my country at that moment, helping me in not just beating back the Egyptian invasion, but destroying their whole military and annexing Egypt! On the domestic front, it has been gratifying to implement projects that have a marked effect on my country. I praise Jujubee for creating a policy system that isn’t too hard to grasp and displays fairly discernible effects (unlike similar games such as Power & Revolution, Supreme Ruler 2020, etc.)
– Real player with 49.6 hrs in game
Star Dynasties
Infinite potential, incredible progress.
I started playing this game during the indiecade demo mid-2020, and the evolution this game has been through in just one year is massive.
Pros:
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Dev very responsive to Player Feedback
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Lots of Character Drama
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Interesting Events (Expeditions specially)
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Interesting Systems (Secrets, Justice, Gatherings, Favors and Negotiation)
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Powerful Modding Tool (Seriously, one could create a full DLC-worthy experience with it)
– Real player with 996.3 hrs in game
Addendum
Have changed review to - Would recommend.*
Only about a third of my gamer friends are big head enough to truly enjoy this game, but I know they will enjoy it immensely. I can see this one sinking hundreds if not thousands of hours into, and I’m already hopeful they go series with it.
I have a great deal of hope, if only because of how quickly the developers are acting on feedback and making solid changes. Meaningful save files now exist. There’s still a lot going on, so I’m not yet done with this review, but the nature and flow of the game are starting to make more sense.
– Real player with 122.9 hrs in game