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Stardock Entertainment · 2016 · Windows

Steam: 76 % positive of 710 reviews, as of Oct 18

Run for President of the United States as one of dozens of past or present presidential candidates or create your own ideal candidate. Give speeches, go on talk shows, hire unsavory operatives, and do whatever it takes to win on election day.

24 games that play like The Political Machine 2016 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Political Machine 2020, The Political Machine and The Political Machine 2024.

Player tags

  • Political Sim
  • Simulation
  • Strategy
  • Indie
  • Casual
  • Politics
  • Political
  • Turn-Based
Map region: Historical Strategy
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Plays and looks like The Political Machine 2016

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Political Machine 2016

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Political Animals71 % positive of 183Shared: Political Sim · Simulation · Strategy
  2. Mr. President77 % positive of 176
  3. 270 | Two Seventy US Election75 % positive of 1,052Shared: Strategy · Politics · Political
  4. Lawgivers II67 % positive of 492Shared: Political Sim · Simulation · Strategy
  5. Tropico 389 % positive of 1,855Shared: Political Sim · Simulation · Strategy
  6. Tropico 687 % positive of 27,191Shared: Political Sim · Simulation · Strategy
  7. Rogue State Revolution77 % positive of 499Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Political
  8. 川建国同志想要连任/Comrade Trump's Re-election88 % positive of 1,243Shared: Political Sim · Strategy · Memes
  9. Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI86 % positive of 349,920Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Turn-Based
  10. Tropico 491 % positive of 12,427Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Politics
  11. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs94 % positive of 6,095Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Memes
  12. Suzerain93 % positive of 9,266Shared: Political Sim · Politics · Political

By look

Looks like The Political Machine 2016

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. The Fabulous Fear Machine90 % positive of 519
  2. Turkish Throne92 % positive of 255
  3. Power & Revolution 2020 Edition62 % positive of 840
  4. China: Mao's legacy91 % positive of 1,015
  5. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition94 % positive of 14,744
  6. Super POTUS Trump59 % positive of 463
  7. Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency86 % positive of 1,819
  8. Democracy 482 % positive of 5,798
  9. Ultimate Arena80 % positive of 976
  10. Collapse: A Political Simulator65 % positive of 179
  11. Academia : School Simulator85 % positive of 2,885
  12. Concrete Jungle87 % positive of 644

At a glance

What games like The Political Machine 2016 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Political Machine 2016: Strategy (20 of 24), Political Sim (16) and Simulation (16).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 16 of them after The Political Machine 2016 (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Political Process (95 % positive of 1,908).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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