No Place for the Dissident

No Place for the Dissident

David M. · November 12, 2020 · Political Sim, Dystopian , Outbreak Sim, Political, Politics

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No Place for the Dissident price by region

No Place for the Dissident costs $2.69 in Georgia (USD), £2.89 in the United Kingdom, €3.29 in Europe (EUR), $3.99 in the United States, CA$4.65 in Canada, NZ$5.19 in New Zealand, A$5.95 in Australia, R$8.69 in Brazil and zł14.49 in Poland right now.

Cheapest No Place for the Dissident offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $2.69 $2.69 — 1
United Kingdom £2.89 £2.89 — 1
Europe (EUR) €3.29 €3.29 — 1
United Statesyour region $3.99 $3.99 — 1
Canada CA$4.65 CA$4.65 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.19 NZ$5.19 — 1
Australia A$5.95 A$5.95 — 1
Brazil R$8.69 R$8.69 — 1
Poland zł14.49 zł14.49 — 1

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About No Place for the Dissident

✦ AI summary

No Place for the Dissident is a deep political simulator where you engineer and spread an ideology across the globe, manipulating populations through propaganda, coups, and warfare to achieve total dominance. Navigate the consequences of your rise to power as opposition factions mobilize and your methods grow increasingly ruthless in this high-fidelity world simulation tracking hundreds of thousands of individual influence points.

No Place for the Dissident is a strategic political simulator. You'll be responsible for the creation, growth, and adoption of a new ideology to dominate the world. But be careful, as your ideas gain traction, some will alert about its danger. The opposition will rise, and, if not controlled properly, it will wipe out your influence.

Ideologies have shaped the world, will you be able to shape it as you want?



In No Place for the Dissident, you'll have to spread a new ideology to dominate the world. Whatever means are necessary.

Key Features

  • Highend Simulator. The engine performs a worldwide simulation with hundreds of thousands of points. Our engine tracks your influence in each bit of the world, and each bit will interact with the rest.
  • Population Segments. People are segmented into five different categories: neutral, supporters, violent supporters, opposition, and violent opposition.
  • Social Traits. Your politics and actions will affect five different traits in each country: expansion, conversion, polarization, censorship, and terror.
  • Actions. Make peaceful protests, manipulate through TV, newspapers, fake news, and social media. Create associations, create militias, lead coups, repress opposition, and even declare war to enemy countries where your ideology didn't do well.
  • Politics. Adopt new politics from the ideology tree to exponentially expand your ideas and crush the opposition. Adoptions of new politics will unlock bonuses and new actions to perform on each country.
  • Multiplayer. Competitive 1vs1 online multiplayer.
  • Real data of 175 countries: population density, economy, military power, political regime, and more!
  • Governments. Access the government through free elections or by overthrowing the existing one by force.
  • Events. From assassination plots to sexual scandals.
  • News Feed. You'll make it to the headlines!
  • War. Avoid civil wars, declare wars and, if you are sure, launch devastating nuclear strikes.
  • Face the consequences. You may have dominated the world, but at what cost?

Warning


This game includes dreadful and extremely violent motifs. It also contains quotes and points of view of the most violent historic figures.

Millions of people have suffered the ultimate consequence of these beliefs.

We, the developers, consider that this should be reason enough to reflect on it.

No Place for the Dissident — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP
PC Game Pass
Not included
More games like this:Linux games

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

No Place for the Dissident is heavily criticized for being a shallow Plague Inc. reskin with poor execution, incomplete features, and minimal depth in its political gameplay mechanics. Players complain about a confusing interface that doesn't suit the game's design, numerous spelling and grammar errors that obscure tooltips, repetitive and mindless gameplay that boils down to constant pausing and clicking, and a lack of content that doesn't justify the price even after extended ownership. Most reviewers agree the game is not worth purchasing at any price point.

Not recommended Feb 15, 2022
This is literally Plague Inc. reskinned to look like DEFCON, which half the gameplay and an inverted amount of polish. There's no reason to actually play this, and you can go to the discussions page to see that the developer doesn't care and thinks the game is already perfect. I find the notion that he thinks this is an acceptable political game to be insulting. As an example of how shallow this is, the only thing you define about the ideology you're spreading is the name. That's it. Nothing else. This game doesn't even have a menu screen. This isn't even an alpha build. This isn't even a tech demo. This is barely a 2008 flash game. This isn't even worth playing if it was free.
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Not recommended Nov 27, 2021
The gameplay is promising, but the game itself is a direct rip of Plague Inc for how the interface works. For this game though, that interface doesn't match, nor work well. Not including there are massive grammar, spelling, and basic English mistakes that makes the tool tips hard to understand as if written by a "Prince of Nigeria" email translator. This seems like it would be better tailored as a maniacal evil genius interface, or demonic or something to actually sell the idea. Like you chose news stories to run by selecting propaganda options. Or, that you react to the "others" by promoting your own ideology that forwards progress and human survival like most real socialist regimes do, subverting them with propaganda. Like I said, it's got a good premise, but the execution is horrible.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 1, 2023
pretty nice but a bit pricey for the amount of replaying you can get dont buy im not gonna sugar coat it i have played this game 2 times ive had it for over a year DONT BUY
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 14, 2022
Decent game, great looking map as well. I do think though that adding in cold war like mechanics into the game could improve it. overall 6/10
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 7, 2022
i feel awful and you are probably going to feel the same 5.1/10
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 23, 2021
So short run so far, I stopped so I could get a refund. So far the game play, was, hit pause, click on the book icon. Unpause. Pause, click on the book icon and the loud speaker icon. Unpause. As your ideology expands, pause click on the book icon and the speaker icon for each country, Clicking on infulence public media as well and the next icon along if there is resistance in the area. Winning strategy, I had most of the world under my sway, Quite a few nations fanatically supporting me. But pause, click click click? It's just far too mindless, promises complexity that does not seem to exist. I'ld be mildy miffed if it was a free flash game,
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