I survived so many assassination attempts that I got more bullets in me than 50 Cent.
I did 4 playthroughs with the United States. The first time was when I survived many assassination attempts, and I assume it was because I blew ass as president, ran the deficit up into the multi-trillions (who knew state pensions + retirement = no money?), and everyone was unemployed. But they voted me in for a second term, so who is the joke on now? No really, how did that happen? My political party ceased to exist with my whopping 0% interest in voting at the end of 8 years. I was hoping maybe I could run as a successor or something at least to see the legacy of what I created, but the game ain't that deep.
So I restarted. My next two playthroughs, I took the kid gloves off and tried to force the United States into being the socialist democratic hellscape of my dreams. That ended very poorly for me with my hitting 0% approval and voters yet again. I was starting to believe this shit was rigged.
Finally, I have now hit my stride, slowly moving the overton window over inch by inch, dealing with alcoholism, traffic congestion, and obesity multiple times. We're scarily technologically advanced at this point, and I assume we'll hit "disembodied head president" tech soon. That being said, I still can't figure out how to stop the cyber crimes and crypto is unrealistically booming. My cabinet is filled with sycophants, we're socially liberal as fuck, and somehow NOW I am not getting almost murdered. Did I mention this is my 4th term? I'm a modern day Theodore Roosevelt; y'all better watch out because I'm about to turn left and I don't want to smack you across the face with my big stick.
In all reality, this game captured two things about politics really well. First off, it's boring as fuck. I say that as a lover of spreadsheet simulations. But god damn is there a lot less you can do to help impact anything than you would expect. You can't even make your cabinet folks or even find a variety of people for that matter. Secondly, the game is accurate in that no matter what you do, you're pissing in someone's metaphorical Cheerios and they will want to non-metaphorically kill you.
I will add, I went as far as to pay the discounted eightish dollars to try out the DLC and I gotta say, it didn't add much. I don't recommend buying Democracy 4 to be honest, but if you end up owning it somehow, there ARE worse games you could be playing instead.
I did 4 playthroughs with the United States. The first time was when I survived many assassination attempts, and I assume it was because I blew ass as president, ran the deficit up into the multi-trillions (who knew state pensions + retirement = no money?), and everyone was unemployed. But they voted me in for a second term, so who is the joke on now? No really, how did that happen? My political party ceased to exist with my whopping 0% interest in voting at the end of 8 years. I was hoping maybe I could run as a successor or something at least to see the legacy of what I created, but the game ain't that deep.
So I restarted. My next two playthroughs, I took the kid gloves off and tried to force the United States into being the socialist democratic hellscape of my dreams. That ended very poorly for me with my hitting 0% approval and voters yet again. I was starting to believe this shit was rigged.
Finally, I have now hit my stride, slowly moving the overton window over inch by inch, dealing with alcoholism, traffic congestion, and obesity multiple times. We're scarily technologically advanced at this point, and I assume we'll hit "disembodied head president" tech soon. That being said, I still can't figure out how to stop the cyber crimes and crypto is unrealistically booming. My cabinet is filled with sycophants, we're socially liberal as fuck, and somehow NOW I am not getting almost murdered. Did I mention this is my 4th term? I'm a modern day Theodore Roosevelt; y'all better watch out because I'm about to turn left and I don't want to smack you across the face with my big stick.
In all reality, this game captured two things about politics really well. First off, it's boring as fuck. I say that as a lover of spreadsheet simulations. But god damn is there a lot less you can do to help impact anything than you would expect. You can't even make your cabinet folks or even find a variety of people for that matter. Secondly, the game is accurate in that no matter what you do, you're pissing in someone's metaphorical Cheerios and they will want to non-metaphorically kill you.
I will add, I went as far as to pay the discounted eightish dollars to try out the DLC and I gotta say, it didn't add much. I don't recommend buying Democracy 4 to be honest, but if you end up owning it somehow, there ARE worse games you could be playing instead.