
Balanced Politics Simulation is a political simulation game inspired by a quotation from Winston Churchill: ''Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.'' This time, your choices will definitely matter.
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Simplistic, Unrealistic, and Unpolished First of all, the "gameplay" consists of simply vetoing or passing laws as they are proposed to you and choosing from one of 2 responses to social media posts. Everything is based on the axes of left or right, and you are not allowed to choose what you think is best. You are not allowed to propose any legislation yourself. There is no middle ground choice that appeals to both parties. You instead of have to mindlessly choose 1 right wing response for every left wing response, no matter how dumb some of those options are. For some reason, you need to appease both parties in order to win, despite this being the exact opposite of how politics works in real life. The game calls this "balance" when really it's just stripping the player of choice. I'm fairly centrist politically speaking but I find myself frustrated because you are forced to choose between fairly mainstream liberal choices (which the game calls left) and far-right choices to the point that if you voted for every right wing proposal you would be a fascist. Even an actual fascist wouldn't like this game because they'd have to choose an equal number of liberal choices in order to "win". The simulation is so simple that it can't even really be called a simulation. You don't get budget numbers or anything. There's just a single number for budget which goes from 0% to 100%, a percentage for HDI, etc. No nuance whatsoever. Also, the spelling and grammar are riddled with extremely basic errors. So many typos. This game isn't worth $10. If it was a free browser game I would play it for 5 minutes and get bored of it. There are free browser political games (such as The Fiscal Ship) which have much more nuance, complexity, and polish than this $10 game. If you compare this to Democracy 3, which while simple in its interface has much more complexity, this game can't even hope to compare. I understand that this game is still in Early Access, but adding a little more content won't fix this game. It needs to be completely overhauled to the point that it would be an entirely different game. I don't see it improving to get better.
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Decent politics simulator where you chose to let bills being voted in order to satisfy either the left or the right (let's separation of power out of the picture ;)). Worth a look for all political interested people. Good way to find out a balanced point of view in the world of politics. In order to better understand why decisions are being taken. Check out my let's play: https://youtu.be/9y0mX---waM Cons: - experienced some crashes - only two political sides, especially liberal or green views are not being well represented Worth a look.
Let down by this game, it isn't a simulator all it consists of is a series of questions you need to answer, the game is over quickly and isn't at all engaging. Not worth the money
HORRIBLE GAME DO NOT BUY!!! i would get a refund if i could. All you do is veto or pass bills. no ability to do anything else. literally nothing else. and if the game thinks you are anything but a middle of the road cuck, you fail. That is it. Not a game. ... just a waste of time.
While not a bad idea, the game is way too short. It takes about 15 minutes to complete and your choices don't matter apart from balancing the numbers. Not even close to be worth the price. If anything this game should have been a free browser game.
Very few interactions, which are rather boring routines. It's the same things - to approve or not to approve the law proposal and to choose one of the two options for Social Networking like Twitter. Unable to react to news reports (none options for made decision / choose). :-( The Democracy 3 is much more better.
Look, it has a great idea, but the implementation sucks. I don't like the fact that you instantly get kicked out of office if one the groups does not like you. That is not how politics works. Each party should have a number of seats and if over 50% of parliament dislike you for a couple of turns then you should get outed. There should also be difficulty settings and more options.
The game is good but very lacking. Basically, you answer different political questions. Sometimes right and sometimes left. Trying to balance the parties, the economy and national security. In the end I had hoped to see something like a breakdown of what my different choices did for the country at the end of my term. Unfortunately that does not happen. Something like: The economy grew X %, the poverty rate dropped or rose X %, the percentage of religious people grew or shrunk X %, etc. Adding more details like that would help transform this game from a clicker to an actual political simulation game. For now it's ok to spend 20 minutes on but it's not an actual political simulator yet. The various Democracy games are basically the fleshed out version of this game minus the twitter questions.
Shallow, expensive flash game. Might improve as time goes.
Game is a scam, they've never updated it and it's terrible. Absolutely NOT worth $10, I should've re-funded this game but I was under the false impression it would be updated, but no, it's never been touched/
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