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The Political Machine 2024

Stardock Entertainment · 2024-05-02

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

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.

0
playing now
75%
positive of 267 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

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 54% of 6,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 267 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.88-11%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 31 of 53 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

802026-08-11 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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).

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

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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