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Political Arena

Wayside Press · 2025-09-02

Steam

RPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 02, 2025 (Mac), Sep 02, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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).

76%
positive of 75 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Political Arena is an upcoming singleplayer government simulation video game developed by former Huffington Post reporter Eliot Nelson and his company, Wayside Press along with Texas-based development studio FarBridge.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 7,601 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 75 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2025-09-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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