Games like The Political Machine
by Stardock Entertainment
Do you have what it takes to be president?Play as more than 20 candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or create your own candidate from scratch.Players take to the campaign trail against a computer controlled opponent or a human challenger over the Internet.
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-50%$19.99Terra Invicta
Jan 5 · Pavonis Interactive
Both: Grand Strategy · Economy · Turn-Based Strategy
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulation4XEconomyWarHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyTacticalManagement👍 9,064
$9.99Gods of Sand
Apr 14 · Achenar Studios
Both: Turn-Based · Management · Turn-Based Strategy
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
Turn-BasedManagementRomePixel GraphicsStrategyTacticalTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatIndieSimulation👍 721
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: Grand Strategy · Management
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
$59.99Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
Nov 27 · Eversim
Both: Political Sim · Grand Strategy
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
SimulationStrategyPolitical SimGrand StrategyRTSWargameReal Time Tactics3DTop-DownCapitalism👍 253
-50%$24.99ENDLESS Legend™ 2
4 days ago · AMPLITUDE Studios
Both: Grand Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Management
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
StrategySimulationGrand Strategy4XTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerHistoricalWarTacticalManagement👍 2,699
$39.99Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Apr 30 · Unfrozen
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerGrand StrategySimulation4XTacticalTurn-Based TacticsWar👍 19,290
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$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
$39.99Xenonauts 2
Apr 2 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-BasedPvECharacter Customization👍 4,857
$14.99The Conquest of Go
Dec 10 · Wolfey Studios
Both: Turn-Based · Turn-Based Strategy
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Turn-BasedStrategyBoard GameTabletop2DTop-DownTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyEducationTutorial👍 581
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Both: Management · Economy
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management · Economy
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementCasualMultiplayerLife SimStrategyEconomyBuildingSingleplayer👍 171
$24.99Quasimorph
Jul 31 · Magnum Scriptum
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
RPGTurn-Based CombatStrategyTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerChoices MatterRoguelikeExtraction ShooterTranshumanismTurn-Based👍 7,207
-15%$7.64Political Life
4 days ago · Terminalabs
Both: Political Sim
A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.
Political SimLife SimChoices MatterText-BasedStory RichMultiple EndingsSimulationStrategy2DPixel Graphics
$39.99MENACE
Feb 5 · Overhype Studios
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-BasedPvECharacter Customization👍 12,304
$19.95Holonoptic
Jul 16 · Glazial
Both: Management · Economy
As the new CEO of a derelict company, you must deal (or side) with rogue corporate AIs, rebellious labor unions and globalist aristocrats. Holonoptic combines economic simulation and RPG into a story-rich corporate alpine cyberpunk.
Story RichStrategyCRPGManagementCapitalismCyberpunkBuildingSimulationEconomyParty-Based RPG
$29.99Heroes of Science and Fiction
Mar 17 · Oxymoron Games
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
StrategySimulationRPGMultiplayerTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyFantasyTacticalWar4X👍 852
$12.99Never Second in Rome
May 5 · Alessandro Roberti
Both: Turn-Based · Management
Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements. You are a Roman centurion in the army of Julius Caesar. You will control both your character and the unit under his command.
RomeHistoricalTurn-BasedRPGSimulationTurn-Based CombatText-BasedOld SchoolWarManagement👍 638
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Grand Strategy · Management
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
-25%$9.74Dead Weight
Jul 16 · Klukva Games
Both: Turn-Based · Turn-Based Strategy
Face the Ancient Gods! Set the sails of your flying pirate ship and embark on a roguelite adventure in the steampunk world of Dead Weight. Explore floating islands in search of loot. Choose a class and enjoy turn-based tactical combat on tiny battlefields where every step matters.
Turn-Based CombatStrategyRPGReplay ValuePixel GraphicsTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategyTacticalRoguelikeAdventure👍 583
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
New-20%$2.39ROGUELIKE CARD GAME:BUSINESS EMPIRE
Yesterday · COO Studio
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
"Roguelike Card Game: Business Empire" combines roguelike with card strategy. Choose your character, build your industrial park from scratch using cards, experience multiple victory paths, and compete on the global leaderboard.
Turn-Based TacticsRogueliteCard GameTurn-Based StrategyTabletopRoguelikeStrategy2DColorfulTactical
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: Management
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
-15%$8.49Three Kingdoms Born
3 days ago · Project Dragon
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Management
A character-driven Three Kingdoms strategy game. Recruit legendary officers, build your realm, and command real-time battles through preparation, tactics, and decisive intervention. Shape Guandu, Red Cliffs, and the anti-hegemon war, challenge Duel Mode, and climb global rankings.
StrategyTurn-Based StrategyManagementMilitaryWarSingleplayerEarly Access
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Management · Economy
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Management · Economy
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
-10%$17.99Infinity: HexaDome Tactics
11 days ago · Blindspot Games
Both: Turn-Based · Turn-Based Strategy
Discover the story of the Aristeia world in single-player or storm into PvP battles! Turn-based battles, 12 heroes, varied arenas, deckbuilding with dozens of tactical cards. Assemble the perfect team, use hundreds of insane combos, and become HexaDome champion. And bring a friend!
Turn-BasedStrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyActionCard GameVisual NovelTacticalMultiplayerTurn-Based Combat
$7.99Behind the Sword
Aug 30 · Agustin Vuelta
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Economy
Behind the Sword is a fresh take on the turn-based strategy genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.
Turn-Based StrategyMedievalProcedural GenerationStylized2.5DWarCasualGrid-Based MovementTurn-Based TacticsEconomy
$9.99Ice Cream Simulator
Jun 5 · AM Playhouse
Both: Management
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
CookingSimulationSingleplayerLife SimFirst-PersonManagementImmersive SimDesign & IllustrationRealisticBase Building👍 180
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$11.99Deep Corp
May 26 · KishMish Games
Both: Management
Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!
StrategyMiningRTSManagementUndergroundResource ManagementSandboxExplorationWesternTime Management👍 367
-34%$19.79The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410
4 days ago · Ashborne Games
Both: Political Sim
Choose from professions like Smith, Preacher or Alchemist to gain riches in this medieval economic simulation. Climb the social ladder, dominate politics, and lead your dynasty to power over multiple generations to ensure your legacy.
Early AccessSimulationStrategySandboxStrategy RPGImmersive SimPolitical SimTime Management3DColorful👍 349
$13.49Gamestonk Simulator
May 21 · simsum
Both: Management · Economy
Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!
SimulationManagementRogueliteCollectathonLife SimEconomyImmersive SimCapitalismRoguelikeIndie👍 106
$34.99Pioneers of Pagonia
Dec 11 · Envision Entertainment
Both: Management
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
StrategyResource ManagementColony SimOnline Co-OpFantasyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementProcedural GenerationPvE👍 4,794
$14.99Junkyard Builder
Apr 8 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Management · Economy
In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!
SimulationManagementFirst-PersonCasualLife SimFamily FriendlyImmersive SimRelaxingSandboxEconomy👍 223
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: Economy · Management
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 543
-40%$14.99Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Oct 9 · Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Turn-Based TacticsRogueliteTurn-Based StrategyTactical RPGJRPGRoguelikeStrategyTurn-Based CombatTop-DownGrid-Based Movement👍 1,299
$14.99DAICE
Jul 16 · Aeterna Ludi
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
DAICE is a unique merge of turn-based dice-powered combat with inventory management, a roguelite where you control an evergrowing AI Core. Purchase and pilot unique spaceships, load your dice into weapons and systems, and unleash devastating combos and shape your own strategy-driven story.
StrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatSpaceTacticalRoguelikeTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiInventory Management2D
-15%$12.74Anime Shop Simulator ✨
10 days ago · One More Time
Both: Management
Manage your own anime shop 🎌. Play solo or team up with friends 🤝 in 4-player co-op mode to grow your business 📈 Stock shelves with manga, figures, and collectible cards in this immersive first-person game 🕹️.
SimulationAnimeOnline Co-OpCard GameCasualManagementFirst-PersonShop KeeperLife SimSingleplayer👍 645
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
7 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: Management · Economy
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
-10%$8.99Dirt Spoon in Another World
3 days ago · Underdog Games Inc.
Both: Economy · Management
Thrown into an otherworld of wuxia and fantasy with a ten-million-gold debt — no powers, no cheats. Travel a map of 279 cities, buy low and sell high, and raise up to four mercenary squads to punch through bandit roads. A caravan-trading & squad-management sim. Clear the debt to win.
StrategyRPGTradingSimulationEconomyManagementSingleplayerFantasyIndieMartial Arts
-30%$4.89Fortune Avenue
3 days ago · Binogure Studio 🐺
Both: Turn-Based · Economy
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Board GameTabletopTurn-BasedMultiplayerPvPCapitalismEconomyFunnyFamily FriendlyStrategy
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Management
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
FreeKlaus Veen's Bastards
4 days ago · Tomorrow Software
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Bastards is an online, fast-paced and tactical card game for 2-8 players. Take turns playing cards from low to high: 3 is the lowest, 2 the highest. Be first to get rid of your hand to become President. Finish last, and you’ll become the Bastard!
StrategyCard GameParty GameTurn-Based StrategyTabletopPvPMultiplayerPartyRelaxingCasual
$19.99Sovereign Tower
Aug 6 · WILD WITS GAMES
Both: Management
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Choices MatterMedievalChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelIndieManagementDialogue HeavyHand-drawnRPGStory Rich👍 3,150
-50%$7.49Dungeon Clawler
Apr 30 · Stray Fawn Studio
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Roguelike DeckbuilderReplay ValueArcadeStrategyRogueliteGamblingTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerPhysicsRoguelike👍 3,722
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
-15%$4.24Waterjacked!
3 days ago · A Frog's Pond
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
Waterjacked! is a turn-based roguelike where you are a gunslinging succulent chosen to wield the GRID. Uncover destructive combos and develop clever strategies from an assortment of Modules, Augments, and Herbals to push back the invading robots from The Valley.
Early AccessTraditional RoguelikeRoguelike DeckbuilderPuzzleTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatTurn-BasedDeckbuildingPerma DeathStrategy
$14.99Deified
Apr 27 · Unexpected
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Forge your strategy around powerful relics in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Choose your slots, manage their constraints, and face formidable bosses.
StrategyRoguelikeTurn-Based StrategyDungeon CrawlerRogueliteTactical RPGTurn-Based Tactics3DIsometricStylized👍 281
-20%$9.59Mall Together
Jul 24 · Business Tycoon
Both: Management
Run your mall. Open new stores, sign contracts with leading brands, hire teammates, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your mall.
Life SimCasualOnline Co-OpShop KeeperSimulationManagementDesign & IllustrationMultiplayerOrganizingImmersive Sim👍 419
$13.99Sol Cesto
Apr 10 · Tambouille, Géraud Zucchini, Chariospirale
Both: Turn-Based
Sol Cesto is a tactical and frantic roguelite where mastering your luck is key. Choose a hero, upgrade them using cursed teeth and magical items, and descend to the bottom of an ever-changing dungeon. In this dark world, every action has consequences…
Dungeon CrawlerRoguelikeTacticalPuzzleAtmosphericFantasyGamblingProcedural GenerationMysteryTurn-Based👍 4,849



