Gerrymander Madness

Gerrymander Madness

CrossComm, Inc. · July 28, 2020 · Casual, Strategy, Education, Political Sim, Diplomacy

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About Gerrymander Madness

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Gerrymander Madness puts you in the role of a state legislator redrawing electoral districts to gain political advantage and score points by controlling territory and diluting opposition voters. The game serves as an educational tool that reveals how gerrymandering can distort democracy and unfairly manipulate electoral outcomes regardless of party affiliation.

Gerrymander Madness places gamers into a fictional North Carolina legislator's office and allows them to manipulate the districts of a state map to gain political advantage for a chosen party. Players score points as they gain control of districts and disenfranchise voters of the opposing party. Gerrymander Madness demonstrates how gerrymandering undermines democracy. It was built by CrossComm in partnership with the Greensboro History Museum for the museum’s Project Democracy 20/20 exhibition.
Gerrymander Madness is not backed by a political party, nor is it intended to support one party over another. In fact, both the Democratic and Republican parties have used gerrymandering to their advantage, both in North Carolina and in other areas of the country. Gerrymander Madness is intended to educate gamers on the practice of gerrymandering and demonstrate the ease with which electoral outcomes can be unfairly manipulated for political gain.

Gerrymander Madness — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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Recommended Mar 8, 2024
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11 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 2, 2023
Eurochads can't relate
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 2, 2021
What?!? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 2, 2026
"Gerrymander Madness" is a bit of political propaganda that demonstrates a broken political system. At best this is a pointless tech demo, at worst, it's US politics being shoved down gamers throats on Steam. What do you do in the game? Plug around with electoral maps which are represented by a hex grid, totally unlike actual electoral maps, so that's a huge failure. And of course these guys set out on their mission of political indoctrination, which of course should aim to reach as many people as possible, and they also made it VR exclusive, to ensure it reaches as few people as possible (Steam hardware survey shows less than 2% of Steam gamers bothered with VR). Talk about aggressively and repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot, stopping only to reload a couple of times. Whether we may or may not agree with the cause, it's my firm belief that politics of any kind has no place in gaming. It does no service to gamers at all for political or social agenda to be shoved down our throats, no matter which side is doing the shoving. We're here to have fun, not get indoctrinated. Because the primary purpose of this product is totally unrelated to gaming, this really just makes…
Recommended Nov 19, 2025
Игра "Gerrymander Madness" - забавная, но в то же время пугающе познавательная сатира на политику перекройки избирательных округов. Она умело демонстрирует абсурдность манипуляций с границами ради достижения партийного преимущества. Геймплей интуитивно понятен: игроку предлагается перерисовывать границы округов, чтобы максимизировать шансы своей партии на победу. При этом нужно учитывать демографические данные и стараться не вызвать слишком сильное возмущение населения (хотя последнее не всегда обязательно!). Визуальный стиль нарочито упрощенный, но это работает в пользу игры, позволяя сконцентрироваться на сути процесса. Сатира острая и меткая, заставляет задуматься о реальных политических процессах. "Gerrymander Madness" - это не столько развлечение, сколько интерактивный урок политологии, поданный в увлекательной форме. Рекомендуется всем, кто интересуется политикой и хочет понять, как "кухня" выбора может влиять на результаты голосования. Единственный минус - иногда процесс может казаться немного однообразным, но это с лихвой компенсируется сатирическим посылом игры.
Recommended Mar 6, 2023
[h1]Before I played Gerrymander Madness: The Anti-Democracy VR Game, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

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