Democratic Socialism Simulator

Pretty cool. I got assassinated, just like the best presidents, but at least I got to tax the rich before. I'm sure the two things were completely unrelated. Novelty wears off pretty quickly, but for the asking price I would say it's worth it.

While I sympathize with the developers' (rather obvious) political leanings, I found the game far too easy to be much fun. Where Reigns and similar games make it a challenge to balance the needs of the various factions, this game makes it rather trivial to do so. It's okay for the price, but don't expect much in terms of replayability.

The game is exactly as it markets itself. Which is ok, but there isn't really any gameplay. After the first two runs, I feel like I've experienced the game and there is nothing else to do.

[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-revolutionary phrases, no matter what Leftist, pseudo-Marxist and pacifist contortions those phrases may be disguised with.[/i] [url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/dec/x01.htm]Lenin[/url]

It's a nice, cutesy game about treading the needle between fighting the establishment and political survival. This game isn't a "Go as left as possible and win!" game, nor is it a "Socialism doesn't work, you lose forever" game. I appreciate how upsetting the wrong people can lead to the powers-that-be generating a recession just to get you out of office. Overall, it's a balanced game with nice aesthetics. It makes me miss the hope of Democratic Socialism in 2020, that is only now being restored five years later. Good game.

I LOVE SOCIALISM!!! very fun and simplistic game, gets right to the point and doesn't have you doing random ♥♥♥♥ for 30 minuets before you can get to the actual main portion of the game.

just a really bad game... socialism is cancer