Democratic Socialism Simulator
Molleindustria · 2020 · Casual, Indie, Simulation, Political, Political Sim
PC
Very Positive92% · 195
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About Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
The Democratic Socialism Simulator lets you play as the first socialist president of the United States.
Can you redistribute power and wealth while addressing the climate crisis?
Enact radical reforms, tax the rich, transform the economy, tackle the most pressing issues without alienating voters or bankrupting the government. But beware: the ruling class won't give up its power easily. Even your closest allies may turn on you.
The Democratic Socialism Simulator is a single player game that borrows its interface from the dating app Tinder and the popular game series Reigns. A single game typically last about 20-30 minutes. You don't need to be an experienced gamer to play DSS.
The Democratic Socialism Simulator lets you play as the first socialist president of the United States.
Can you redistribute power and wealth while addressing the climate crisis?
Enact radical reforms, tax the rich, transform the economy, tackle the most pressing issues without alienating voters or bankrupting the government. But beware: the ruling class won't give up its power easily. Even your closest allies may turn on you.
The Democratic Socialism Simulator is a single player game that borrows its interface from the dating app Tinder and the popular game series Reigns. A single game typically last about 20-30 minutes. You don't need to be an experienced gamer to play DSS.
- Hundreds of choices based on existing policy proposals
- Randomly generated scenarios and multiple endings
- Room for different play styles, ideologies, and strategies
- A cast of extremely opinionated anthropomorphic animals
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A quick and simple A/B card game that can be beaten in under 10 minutes. Interestingly, If you pick all the "extreme" options but turn down everything for black activists, you get a near perfect ending with a repeat supermajority and achievement of all other goals. Not sure if this works better as a critique of American society or of democratic socialism as a political movement, but neither comes across intentional.8 found this helpful
[i]Its political demands contain nothing beyond the old democratic litany familiar to all: universal suffrage, direct legislation, popular rights, a people's militia, etc. [...] They are all demands which, insofar as they are not exaggerated in fantastic presentation, have already been realized.[/i] [url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm]Karl Marx[/url] [hr][/hr] [i]The entry of a socialist into a bourgeois government is not, as it is thought, a partial conquest of the bourgeois state by the socialists, but a partial conquest of the socialist party by the bourgeois state.[/i] [url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1899/11/dreyfus-affair.htm]Rosa Luxemburg[/url] [hr][/hr] [i]Support for and the development, extension and intensification of revolutionary mass action and the revolutionary movement; the creation of an illegal organisation for propaganda and agitation in this direction, so as to help the masses understand the movement and its tasks, methods and aims—these are the two points that any practical programme of Social-Democratic activity in the present war must inevitably boil down to. All the rest is opportunist and counter-revoluti…5 found this helpful
A surprisingly well made game. I truly had no expectation when seeing the title, but this game is well made, excellently written, fun to replay, and easy to learn while being hard to master. It illustrates real issues with translating radical ideas into practical (established) politics, and ways in which systems fight or support change. It's also really funny!1 found this helpful
Reigns but better in most ways! Worth a few plays as a novelty if you like politics, not much else though.
Simple and fun! not that much replayability tho
Great game.
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