Reviews

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  Shadowziel

  Feb 12, 2023

  Nothing great.. Quote: "Remember Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Probably worth a google?"
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  geozero

  May 27, 2016

  Continues the game system series. I played a country as a revolutionary, started raising rebels, obtained rockets and made a few international connections. That was pretty cool. But my popularity and that of my opponent were the same. I could not get any unions or anyone to do demonstrations. They just would not. Perhaps they were content. Finally I decided to just attack with the 10k soldiers and 2k rockets I had. I did not have aircraft, ships or tanks. YET, I was able to attack the capital, destroyed many of the enemy tank units, and captured key places and stormed the capital's bunker. Not a single aircraft came to attack me. It was a walk in the park. Then I was the new head of government and popularity actually went up. But that is where I got stuck again. Not a single person, not even family would join my government cabinet. I made reforms, lowered taxes, and yet kept losing popularity. Then an "advisor" asked to setup the cabinet members for me. I agreed. Stupid. The advisor basically stabbed me in the back, had me executed and took power in a coup. That quickly (2.5 hours) I went from a rebel, to a country leader, to basically dead in a coup. I lost the game. The whole thing was fun... but confusing. I don't know where I went wrong. And that is a big issue with a big game like this. If you like detail this game has it. But if you start a rebel and cannot setup govt. cabinet you will not be able to get far. You can't run a country by yourself. EDIT: I still like the game for what it is supposed to be and what it promises to do, BUT, Maybe the speed of the game is too slow... and as a player I am impatient. When you do get to bribe someone or outright ask for money you have about a 25% chance or less of getting some money, but it appears to be a one time donation and if you ask again you get turned down. Not sure why there is not enough game feedback. As a revolutionary I want to see more choices. Why can't I assasinate opposition leaders or a trade union boss that would not help me? Why can't I start a small rebel uprising on the main map in the rural areas or attack infrstructure? Why can't I be given more choices about cities to attack... most smaller third world countries with more than one city you cannot attack anything other than the capital (Honduras for example). Almost every leader is willing to introduce you to someone else BUT once you do get power they won't talk to you. Granted I played a few months only of the game in moderate speed and sometimes skipping a day or two. Perhaps we have to wait longer to get more choices??? In about 2-3 months as a rebel you can recruit quite a lot of additional troops over the starting 10k number, buy rockets and hire mercenaries. None of the protest options seem to work and advisors over rule you every time... wish I could shoot the advisor... but I digress. About the only choice is to (as originally stated in my description above) attack the capital. It doesn't matter that the country (enemy) has tanks, armored cars, etc. Some countries SHOULD also have a solid air force and navy, but it doesn' matter, your forces win. And then you are the leader of a country with lesser popularity than the other dude had and probably get ousted. HOW DO I RECONCILE THE FAILS OF THE GAME FOR A POSITIVE REVIEW: 1) It's pretty much the only game out there with this scope, and as it follows the series (I think this is the 4th version), there are some improvements and new scenarios. While it is pricey and may not appeal to everyone, there is a lot of depth to the game in laws, decision making, i.e. running a country. IF you do run a country, any country even a small one, you do get to see how different political decisions affect other areas, and for that alone it is a pretty good game. 2) The game just came out and likely some bugs are not entirely worked out, and probably needs a lot more feedback. 3) You can mod the game and/or create new scenarios so for those wanting depth or changing things it does have those options. 4) I didn't play too many game months in the game... so not sure if more choices become available later or if the overall game mechanics evolve or anything new pops up. As one who likes to rush things (maybe I have ADD), I just wanted to see the rebels in action and take over a country. In that aspect, above all, the game's promises are delivered. You do get to be a rebel leader if you want and you do get to take over a country. 5) This is not Minecraft, or some other simple game. Or even a SIMS game. But it does have depth. Perhaps it needs more tweaking. Perhaps it needs more fixes. Or it can as simple as playing out a longer game, maybe be a rebel leader for 1-2 years and get more popularity. All in all, while recognizing that the game has some issues, I still give it a thumbs up... IF I could give it thumbs UP and DOWN, I would... it sort of in the middle, but in my case I still felt worth the buy and the playing. Pricey... YES. But again, nothing out there remotely close to it.
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  DeadlyPrivate

  May 28, 2016

  Does anyone remember Real Lives 2010? The game where you play an ordinary citizen from any country on the planet from birth to death? ...This game kind of feels like that, but rougher and incredibly bizzare. The game, for all intents and purposes, is about you as a leader of a political organization. You seek to either remain in power or take power of your country. How you do that is your decision, and boy howdy do you have LOTS of decisions. The game, first off, feels really cheap. I don't mean in love from the creators, but in the UI interface (Mispellings/mistranslations, Menu's disappearing or appearing out of nowhere) as well as the voice acting (Which is ironically a plus, as one of the advisors sounded just like Optimus Prime). In all honesty, charging 50 bucks for this is really asking a LOT, and once you go through the start menu, you feel like you made a big mistake. Once you get through that, you have three options to start with: Already be in power of a country, be a democratic opponent of a power, or be a resistance group (AKA terrorist group) of a country and try to set it free. I first tried to be a terrorist group in North Korea, and the key to success is courting and schedualing as many diplomats, terrorists as well as associations in the country and finding ways to get money, weapons as well as support for international interference. The best way to describe it is a cheap dating sim, but the balance of your group could hang in the balance. The second time, I became the leader of the United States, and since I was NK crazy, I attempted to make myself the dictator of the USA. And this is where the game shines: simulating the entire world going crazy. Riots begin to happen, diplomats and head's of state question and put down my decision to have a statue of me in every classroom. It progressed from simple riots to outright terrorism acts and my cabinet demanding I change it or resign. WOULD I RECOMMEND THIS GAME: NO This game is charming and obviously has a great frame to hang itself on, but the price is just too high for something this cheap...If it were cheaper, heck yeah I would be saying buy it! It has a great amount of charm in it, as well as a interesting representation of discord and anarchy that hasn't been tried by a lot of Global Political simulators. SUGGESTION FOR DEVS: Lower the price or make the UI a lot cleaner and flashy. RIght now it just looks like an Alpha instead of a finished product.
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  Eezee

  May 29, 2016

  This game is not worth $49.99. Horrible code quality (mem issues, makes you install xvid codec on your own, bad logic, etc). Game play itself is nothing short of extremely flawed as well. Decisions sometimes have an impact, while other times they have 0 impact when they should. At best, this is worth $10.
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  TreeLobster

  May 29, 2016

  This game is such a let-down that I'm writing first, maybe second, review ever. First let me say this: It's got a good foundation, and it gets really close to scratching that realistic revolution sim I want for some reason. But that's as close as it gets to good, in my opinion. The game feels unintuitive and the tutorial feels like it was given up on halfway though and they said, "Fuck it, just slap the end right on there." I really, really wanted this game to be better, but it's just such a mess. This, by the way, comes from someone who plays Dwarf Fortress on a regular basis. Where it is now, I'd say the game is worth no more than nine hard earned dollars. Or maybe, like, nine you found on the ground. And the only reason I give it that much is because I played an hour of it before I realized how disappointed I was, and I get paid $9/hour. It seems like it could have a few diamonds in that rough, but definitely not $50 worth.
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  The Dankey

  Jun 2, 2016

  TL;DR This game is not perfect but bloody hell it is good. If you love politics you'll love this game. To showcase why this game is like no other I'll highlight my first time playing GPS4: [olist] [*] I started as one of five opposition parties in South Africa and as a centre-right party I often criticised the government for any new taxes. [*] My anti-union party ironically became the main ally of all the labour unions of South Africa after much political flirting. [*] After some fluctuating successful protests by my party the ruling party used their two thirds majority in parliament to push through legislation that extended the president’s term to 8 years. The president’s approval rating dropped to 8%. [*] A sit in at the capital was organized by our party with nearly 500 000 people attending. After much persuasion a couple of labour unions and other political parties joined in. [*] Our sit in became an uprising and the president was deposed by parliament. [*] After a tense election campaign our party won 37% of the national vote and became the biggest and ruling party. [*] A reform program to privatize many of South Africa’s industries and services led to huge economic growth and unemployment dropped to below 5%. [*] Growth and spending sky rocketed and inflation reached 700%. [*] The stock market crashed, rebels took over the capital and I am now in hiding. [*] This all happened within two game time years. This game does not have the best graphics, sound or UI. But it is probably the most comprehensive political simulator out there with so many different options and decisions to choose from and make.
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  Hanazuki

  Sep 10, 2016

  Not sure why people rip so hard on this. Yes it's buggy. Yes, it's expensive too. But seriously, c'mon! Strategy games these days are unique and sophisticated and have all sorts of things to do in them, but they have an intense feeling of being dragged forward in time, led ahead by the nose. Even Supreme Ruler devolves into tank combat pretty fast. And don't get me started on the whole "every good game that goes into political nitty-gritty is an Election Game" problem the strategy community has right now, in my opinion at least. There are sooo many great election simulators, but very few about actually BEING the head of state after that part, because it's complicated to put in that many life systems after all. If you play abandonware (or were around when those titles first came out!), some games I like you may recognize are Balance of Power, Shadow President, Alter Ego, and Creatures. They're all buggy or limited in their own ways, but the important thing is that they don't try to game-ify away the feeling of a cold straight-played life simulator, which is nice sometimes. Yes, it's hard to win in this game. Yes, it's a grindfest on par with phone games at certain moments in the gameplay. Yes, you'll get frustrated after doing everything right for half an hour that you can't seem to meet the criteria for ending/winning the current game. And bugs, who cares. This game has a TV NEWS SIMULATOR in it, for freakin sakes! You can flirt with diplomatic contacts, one-on-one, and watch the relationship develop over time with text and gifts from the person you're following around! WHO CARES IF YOU CAN'T WIN! *coughs a little* Ahem, sorry. Got a little carried away there. I'm not an idiot of course, and it's easy to see why less than 1% of the people who buy this game might actually enjoy it. But if you enjoyed the likes of Space Station 13, Starship Corporation, FortressCraft, or even Escapists and you're looking for a light-on-strategy political simulator that's heavy on toys and doodads to click on and play with, you might like this one as long as you're not as focused on progression and winning as you are on exploring features and options. For example, not many games of this type let you use nukes immediately, and most of them don't require you to wine and dine your military officials until they're on your side and willing to give you the launch authorization codes. I'm not saying these features stay dazzling forever, you have to try harder than usual to "make your own fun" and come up with plots and things and ideas to do, but that's my playstyle anyway. And no, it's not worth the money at all, really. It's something to get if you've got the disposable income handy, don't really "get" buyer's remorse, and want to play with a big heap of clickable buttons that let you do fun things in a modern world simulation as long as you're not pushing it too far. Power & Revolution is a toy, not a game. Think of it more as buying a license to a software engine, but instead of it being productivity tools it's an "Earth Politics Game AI Engine" that you can interact with, built by a small team who can't fix all the bugs. And now with the God'n Spy addition, you can manually edit the game variables, making it even more that way. So, I call this a toy: An object that has moving parts, instead of a game where it's designed to help you get sucked or drawn into the experience. But if you think you might like to try the former, it's pretty dang sophisticated, at least to me. In fact I'm surprised it has as few bugs as it does, considering that the engine seems to be updating the world piece-by-piece "for real" instead of ignoring large swaths of variables until the user gets interested in a country and then "guessing" what probably happened inside of that country. (Which is what I've seen some strategy simulators try to do in order to increase framerates.) Oh and if it runs slow? Well duh, it's supposed to. People don't seem to be used to games that have to do a lot of artificial brain calculations to work properly, but what that means is that your graphics card won't help you. Scream "unoptimized!" all you want, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that writing all of the calculations for the gameworld was hard enough without having to make the code unreadable by optimizing it too. "Real" AI engines used in commercial applications can be slow at times, too, and making them multithreaded (or use GPU acceleration, which is always proprietary even when it's not) is a pain in the butt. If only this title could find an audience who enjoyed such things. How all the negative reviwers can't see the creativity and drive to create a unique piece of software is beyond me. P&R gets 3/5 from me just for being a special snowflake, and upgraded to 4 out of 5 stars for being such an interesting one at that. The one star removed is a combination of the bugs and the price, but I wouldn't dare take more than one star away from it because that would make it seem less amazing than it really is (to the right audience, if they ever exist and happen to notice that *this* exists). Basically if this review didn't bore or annoy you to tears, you'll probably like it. XD
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  Doofus

  Jan 13, 2017

  There's not much to say about this game that I haven't already said in [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/SirLagsalott/recommended/268890/]my Masters of the World review[/url]. This is the latest perennial installment of the game Commander in Chief that came out in 2009, but this time (gasp) the graphics are upgraded to 2003 quality instead of 2001! Truly groundbreaking work here, great job Eversim. Snark aside, Eversim is still charging you $50 for the same outdated, buggy, and broken mess you hopefully didn't buy into eight years ago. That's ten times the price of Sid Meier's Civilization III, which came out 14 years ago and is infinitely better than this mess. Eversim has made it clear that they care more about making as much money as possible by re-releasing the same game with one single new gameplay element every few years than they do about making something enjoyable and worthwhile for players. I love the concept of geo-political simulators, but this has been done before so many times by so many others, with actual passion and effort put into them - and normally dramatically less expensive than this - that there is no way in hell I'd recommend this to anyone looking to satisfy their craving for a good simulator of worldwide politics. If you like empire-building, go to the Civilization series. If you like military conquest, there are dozens of quality titles available to choose from. If you like a mix of both, there's Superpower 2 and many others available to you. By all means, find an alternative to this. I know I haven't played this game for an exorbitant amount of time. I honestly couldn't even finish the tutorial because it once again failed to realize when I complete a task. After starting a new game, the layer of "polish" - a term I'll have to use lightly around this company - melted away immediately and it was just Masters of the World with a new UI and a city-defense mechanic. Don't make the same mistake I made twice. You can buy a great game five times over with the money it costs to add this hulking monstrosity to your library.
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  Stanislav Volkovich

  Jan 23, 2017

  And the main thing: error 102: "Unsuccesseful activation". You have purchased it, but you can not use it. Developer you are a cheater! И вот главное: ошибка 102: "Неуспешная активация". Вы купили это, но Вы не можете это использовать. Разработчик, ты мошенник! All the things mentioned below is no more important. Всё, что сказано ниже, более не имеет значения. Не важно, играете вы противников существующего порядка или же сильных мира сего, вас ждёт неустанная борьба за власть, в которой вы столкнётесь с по настоящему несокрушимым противников - всемогущей игровой механикой, о главных "особенностях" которой я расскажу ниже. 1. Популярность. Система роста и снижения популярности не отвечает ни реализму, ни играбельности. Расширил права человека - популярность выросла. Сократил права человека - популярность упала. На популярность также влияют экономические показатели, но даже правительство самого процветающего государства не сможет установить диктатуру, а правительство самой отсталой страны мира будет любимо голодающим народом за борьбу с расизмом, настолько влияние национальной экономики на популярность правительства незначительна. В реальности популярность правительства определяется в основном освещением его деятельности в СМИ. Затем идут идейные воззрения граждан и экономическая обстановка. СМИ в игре представляют из себя одну газету, которую читает исключительно сам игрок, а также возможность время от времени выступать по телевизору. Да, есть ещё куча законов, регулирующих деятельность СМИ, которые никак не влияют ни на СМИ, ни на общественное мнение. Идейных воззрений граждан в игре просто нет, а о влиянии экономических факторов уже сказано выше. Всего сказанного уже достаточно для того, чтобы назвать игру симулятором политического абсурда с точки зрения реализма. 2. Всемогущее гражданское общество. Демократия или диктатура - неважно, какой политический режим существует в государстве. Профсоюзы и ассоциации будут болезненно реагировать на любое, даже самое незначительное действие, а снижение МРОТ на 1 доллар вызовет немедленную остановку работы всех заводов и всеобщую забастовку трудящихся, также как снижение налога на вырубку лесов на 1 доллар может (и приведёт!) даже привести к революции со стороны ассоциации экологов. Что же, первый пункт убил реализм, а второй - играбельность. Любое действие, связанное с изменением действующего законодательства, кроме расширения прав человека и повышения дотаций, - митинг с огромным вычетом популярности в лучшем случае и забастовка с революцией в худшем. 3. "Наилучшее правительство то, которое лучше управляет". В этой игре данный принцип реализован как нельзя лучше. Чем меньше игрок действует, тем больше его шанс продержаться подольше. И, да, если игрок оппозиционер, то он вполне может митинговать и бастовать день и ночь по поводу и без и отправить в отставку даже популярнейшего главу государства. - реализм. - играбельность. 4. А помните, я говорил о всемогущем гражданском обществе? Так вот, средство, побеждающее его, найдено! Если игрок берёт лидера оппозиционной или террористической организации, то вся остальная оппозиция, террористы и гражданское общество бездействуют, чтобы ни делало правительство. - реализм. - играбельность. 5. US to anex Mexico! Государства-члены Совета безопасности могут захватывать любые другие государства по своему усмотрению, просто накладывая вето на жалобу государства, страдающего от агрессии. - реализм. - играбельность. Я бы никому не советовал покупать эту игру - прекрасная задумка и ужасное воплощение и огромная цена за нереалистичный и неиграбельный симулятор политического абсурда.
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  charoles31

  Jun 26, 2017

  I refuse to buy another game from this developer until they address the ongoing issues that have been clear and present since the release of Rulers of Nations years ago. There is no excuse in 2017 for a game this simple to perform this poorly. And the real eye gouger is it's pricetag. It's priced up there alongside AAA games which is by itself misleading. If it were a $10 game(Which it should be) I wouldn't complain. But we are 3 or 4 title releases into this franchise with next to zero improvements. Hell they don't even have a proper forum to discuss the issues and development progress. No troubleshooting, no Q&A, no nothin'. Clearly their passion is not gaming. It's counting money. They can count me out.
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  Dr. Strangelove

  Oct 3, 2017

  [b]Summary[/b] A game with a lot of potential, but a terrible failure in execution. If done correctly, this would have beaten any Paradox game in terms of depth and immersion, but what you get is a buggy and unstable "simulation" that will make you lose support and get anti-capitalist riots if you dare to lower the taxes, where attacking terrorists that hide in the town with several fighters would cause the people to revolt against you instantly, and where things like private education or healthcare are unthinkable. Overall, I would love for this to work. I love the system of interaction with A LOT of different characters - politicians, governors, military men, secret agents, famous people like writers or athletes or even your wife and parents. This could have been insanely good, especially after years and years of constant development, but failed miserably. Don't buy it, unless maybe on -80% or -90% sale. It's not worth 10$ and will make you furious when you lose your save for tenth time in a row and have to start all over again. [b]What works[/b] 1. The great system of organizing meetings with different people, even though it gets repetitive after a while and there are not that many things to say. 2. Military stuff is alright, not nearly as good as Paradox's games or even Supreme Ruler, but it's alright. 3. Diplomacy is done alright and makes sense, but I would never call it "realistic". On realistic setting, in just a month, Afghanistan attacked Pakistan and Syria attacked Iraq. Almost every time. 4. Map is alright, and I love how there are many different regions, like all the US states, although the regions are too random at times - I don't like how in Syria the regions don't cover the Kurdish areas so you could create a realistic Kurdish state. 5. You get Wikipedia links to articles that describe issues that you have to decide on. That's a nice touch. 6. The revolutions and riots inside your cities that you have to take care of are a nice touch. [b]What doesn't work[/b] 1. The price and the DLCs. The game is WAY overpriced and the DLCs are really pathetic - the in-game editor that breaks your game after a while, every single time, and a modding tool that is buggy as hell and mods are usually unstable too. All that for a price of an AAA title. Go figure. 2. 3D models of characters - there are just a few of them, excluding the leaders and in some cases some important politicians - you get Jeb Bush for example, but not Rand Paul, for example. 3. Too few political ideologies - there are no proper libertarians, greens, and terrorists' ideology is "royalist". Seriously? 4. Economy is broken. Signing like 50 good or decent contracts with other countries and lowering the taxes a bit will easily get you a 60% GDP rise in a month, which is hard to stop and makes your inflation fly off the charts. What's more, most of my contracts were simply to sell my pharmaceutics across Europe as the US, along with maize, pork, beef, and some other stuff, while getting resources that I need - steel, bauxites, robots, coal, fuel - I negotiated reasonable prices for each good, which I guess simulates the international trade fairly well, but no - doing that will destroy the balance and make the game extremely gamey. Why even bother with the contract system then? 5. For whatever reason there are no real names and mods that allow them are buggy. 6. There is no private initiative in most areas - no private education, healthcare, research, insurance - you get stuck with public one and high taxes. Not really good if you want to try a more conservative or libertarian approach. 7. Unrealistic reactions of your voters - almost every tax reductios ends in popular unrest of anti-capitalists that somehow managed to get multi-million organizations in the US, and that can co-ordinate unrest accross America, you can cancel reimbursing people for doctor appointments and hospital visits almost entirely, but as long as you spend some more money on handicapped, emergency services and maternity care, it almost evens out. Bombing a town in the middle of Afghanistan with a few planes will result in an instant revolution. Is that "realistic"? 8. Bugs and terrible stability - your game will crash often, especially if you want to use the god'n spy DLC. You basically pay money to destroy your game. Classy. 9. There are very few character models which means that every military chief and intelligence officer look exactly the same - even uniforms are the same, and they don't even look realistic. [b]Summary[/b] They couldn't make it work many years ago, they can't make it work now. It's an overpriced trash. Even despite all that, I till hope that this can some day become the next Pride of Nations - a great game with a lot of depth and an amazing military system, but one that was once unbelievably buggy and unstable, and was so sluggish on a high-end PC that it was impossible to play. It's a great game now and easily beats Paradox's famous Victoria and Victoria 2 in pretty much every category. They've been patching it for years now, and you can really see their great dedication to a title that never sold that well and people who trusted them, and really earned my respect. Hope that this would some day finally happen to Geopolitical Simulator as well. It can be great, just needs a lot of polish.
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  alibaba

  Jan 21, 2018

  The game has a lot of bugs crashes during playing, sometimes savegames get interrupted. Also you need to have activation every time you download the game, da fuck EDIT: Came back to give the game another chance after 3 years, hoping might the bugs would be fixed. The game is even worse lmao, bugs are everywhere, can't play shit for long, let's say game starts in 2017, play for 2-3 years and the game gets fucked, crashes several times, until the savegame cannot work properly. Don't buy it, the game idea is good, but the system is fucked, almost unplayable.
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  Dorian

  Sep 18, 2018

  It's a shame...This game had so much potential. The bugs are miserable and the creators haven't even attempted to rectify most bugs...big ones that cause your army to drop to zero soldiers or similar economic issues, or that just cause the game to crash constantly. I had hoped that the creators would eventually fix these issues, but they didn't in the last 2 years. I will never buy another game from these makers again.
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  khalid

  Nov 3, 2018

  I have played all the series of this game from this developer. The game idea is really very good idea that has very little or no competition in this genere. Their are many aspects of the game that are wow. You basicly the president of a country but I do not recommend this game due to the following: 1) The game is extremely buggy some aspects they did not fix since the first series. Such as you cannot build extra normal roads. 2) Sometimes you run out of construction staff 3) If you nationalize an industry and even if the nation is extremely poor and have high unemployment. employing people in the sector can take forever. 4) sometimes the minimum wage is stuck etc. 5) Another thing that I really hate and is not realistic in the game is no matter how powerful your police/army/secret service forces are , in a split of a second and for no reason you can be overthrown or executed. Also military coup happens for no reason. Atleast if you pay the army well you should be secure. Nevertheless if your police force and secrete service is strong they should clash with the army incase of a coupe and not all soldiers will be traitors. Morevoer, with regards to the budget even if it goes negative or whatever happen your security services especaially if your not a democracy should keep you in power even if the country turns into a fireball. You should be able to launch major police operations to tackle crime. Another thing is you should be able to inforce marshall low in some cities and zones. You could be playing for days and lose everything just for no reason. 6) no matter what you do you cannot transform your country please look at tropico and copy management from thier then your game will be the best. Great Idea that is horibbly executed and the developers despite me being a loyal customer and buying all their series completely ignore players suggestions.
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  samsamsamm2003

  Nov 16, 2018

  Alright I've been playing this game for a while gone through a few achievements, still playing. Here is the one thing I really want to say this game has the MAKING one of the greatest grand strategy games of all time but at every level starts to fall short. Combat, elections, interactions, character creation, budgets, etc all with improvement could make the game amazing. My advice is drop the price and attach the modding tools, god n spy, etc to the game, build a larger base of supporters and content creators like Paradox, I understand you are a small outfit but whats better to sell one game at 50 or 10 games at 20. I really really want this game to grow and get modded, be updated, more cool DLCs. The potential on this game is really really great. Also the quotes and trivia are great, its great to see a game by politic nerds like myself. I hope you take my advice in good stead, I want this game to succeed.
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  Quiet kid

  Dec 3, 2018

  I strongly not recommend buying this product. Always, whatever you do, in 3 game years or approximately 4 hours, game start crashing frequently and its becomes impossible to play. And you must understand that after this disapointment, you cant return broken game and get your money back. Return policy limit is just for two hours and game is possible to play only for 4 hours. simple mathematics. when you realize that this game is broken and fuckedup that will be to late. Also, in this game has stupid election system that requires a lot of your effort and simply will ruin your macth by year 3.After that you will realize that this game is wasting your time by making you work hard on making all stupid trade deals, makingup industrial system working and straight after that you will lose elections. I just wasted my money and time.
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  Qfmysteryman23

  Jan 18, 2019

  This game is fun and it has a lot of potential, but the biggest issue I have is the fact that it’s extremely expensive and that each DLC is expensive as well. If they were to lower the price and possibly fix some bugs and keep updating the game then I could see this game being more successful.
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  PoepeDoeper

  Feb 24, 2019

  A very slow paced game that shows us that running a country isnt as easy as people make of it. Many games in this genre are using political, economical and social policies as a method to support an otherwise simple militaristic strategy game. If you feel like any other political simulator game has an unspoken goal of just ''taking over the world'' as the only interesting thing to do when you do good with a country then this is a game you should try. Power & Revolution deserves absolute praise for sticking with what should be the core-mechanic in political simulators: Governance. Dont expect that raising a few taxes to pay for an army is gonna cut it. P&R has a very complex system in place that introduces you to pretty much anything you can think of. Birth rate policies to micro-managing your industries to building houses for the homeless, you name it. Everything is related to each other and its impossible to have a perfect country. That said, knowing that the game is super complex and focuses on policy making rather than militaristic rts gameplay, it is insanely satisfying seeing the country that you run do well. You can really f*ck up a country or your progress if you are not completely sure in what you're doing. However, under this thick skin of complex policy making lies a very buggy mess. In certain playthroughs or after a few hours the game starts to completely miss-calculate effects, messes up sliders and bugs certain relationships between policies to a point in which random events will happen. In certain countries for instance, establishing a minimal wage will instantly result in a Game Over, no matter what you do. The game can randomly crash if it cant calculate certain parameters. In conclusion, P&R can give you lots of satisfaction for fans of this genre. However, the amount of game-breaking bugs that makes you wonder who's to blame when you Game Over makes this an unplayable mess if you are not familiar with the series. I would love to recommend this but after years of different games in the series with the same amount of frustrating bugs makes this a product to be avoided.
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  Rickardus

  Apr 29, 2019

  So let me get this straight, I buy the whole bundle for around $100, and then they go and release this "2019" Edition, which costs an extra $35, even if it's discounted for owners of the game.... AND, THE GAME I BOUGHT NO LONGER IS SUPPORTED BY UPDATES! That's right guys, UPDATES, BUG FIXES are now locked behind a DLC pay-wall. These devs are ridiculous, never seen such a money hungry group. THIS GAME HAS SO MANY BUGS, it's a massive shame that they actually have a genuinely good concept here, wasted because of their lack of care towards their own community.
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  dustin.sutton26

  Jan 11, 2020

  I REALLY want to like this game but too many features do not work as intended. I have played the last couple installments of this game and keep hoping they will fix some of the bugs but I am disappointed each time. I would not suggest buying this game and I personally won't be purchasing any further versions. Some many deep concepts but overall not developed well.