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The Political Machine 2024

Stardock Entertainment · 2024-05-02

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 02, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and run for President in this political strategy game. Choose a candidate or create your own and run against the opposing party’s candidate or up to 4 primary candidates controlled by the computer or other players online.

The Political Machine 2024 is a 2024 Simulation and Strategy game priced at $19.99, with Mostly Positive reviews (74% of 268 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
74%
positive of 270 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

The Political Machine 2024 is a government simulation game from Stardock and the 6th installment in the Political Machine series. In the game, you select a politician, either a pre-made one or one that you have made yourself, and compete in the 2024 presidential election cycle. You can either choose to start in the primaries or the general election. The game was released for play on May 2, 2024 on PC and macOS.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 66% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (60 reviews).
  • · Top 28% of 16,672 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.4k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 270 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.17 at GamesPlanet US (2026-04-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 28 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
414120242026Week of 2024-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 8 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 5 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
253May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 17 · peak 66Jun 2024 — avg 13 · peak 37Jul 2024 — avg 21 · peak 59Aug 2024 — avg 24 · peak 52Sep 2024 — avg 17 · peak 41Oct 2024 — avg 20 · peak 60Nov 2024 — avg 25 · peak 88Dec 2024 — avg 16 · peak 40Jan 2025 — avg 10 · peak 24Feb 2025 — avg 7 · peak 21Mar 2025 — avg 6 · peak 20Apr 2025 — avg 6 · peak 19May 2025 — avg 6 · peak 19Jun 2025 — avg 5 · peak 19Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Aug 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Sep 2025 — avg 8 · peak 31Oct 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 13Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 14Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11May 2026 — avg 5 · peak 12Jun 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 13Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.512024-05-022026-08-212024-05-02 — best price $19.992024-07-15 — best price $15.992024-08-20 — best price $19.992024-10-10 — best price $9.992024-11-05 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $9.992024-12-05 — best price $17.882024-12-16 — best price $19.992025-01-05 — best price $17.882025-01-20 — best price $9.992025-02-24 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-03-31 — best price $9.992025-04-07 — best price $9.992025-05-12 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $7.992025-07-14 — best price $19.992025-08-05 — best price $17.882025-09-15 — best price $19.992025-10-23 — best price $7.992025-12-02 — best price $17.882025-12-22 — best price $6.002026-01-26 — best price $6.002026-02-24 — best price $17.882026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-04-06 — best price $19.992026-04-21 — best price $17.882026-05-18 — best price $5.992026-06-19 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $6.992026-08-21 — best price $17.88
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1112026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-07 — 5 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-15 — 2 pageviews2026-06-19 — 9 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1 pageviews2026-06-27 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 4 pageviews2026-07-05 — 5 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-13 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 3 pageviews2026-07-29 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-22 — 9 pageviews2026-08-26 — 2 pageviews2026-08-30 — 3 pageviews2026-09-03 — 6 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 6 pageviews2026-09-15 — 4 pageviews2026-09-19 — 7 pageviews2026-09-23 — 3 pageviews2026-09-27 — 6 pageviews2026-10-01 — 4 pageviews2026-10-05 — 2 pageviews2026-10-09 — 8 pageviews2026-10-12 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
74.3%
earned "Figure of Speech"
24.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-05-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1273%21

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvPBuildingPoliticsStrategyCard GamePoliticalCapitalismManagementSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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