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The Political Machine 2024

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App ID 2512090
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Stardock Entertainment
Franchise Stardock
Supported Systems Windows macOS
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 38672702
Last Record Update 7 September 2026 – 16:49:02 UTC ()
Release Date 2 May 2024 – 14:30:38 UTC ()
❓ 69.92%
270 reviews
3
In-Game
🥊 PvP 🦹 Character Customization 🖥️ Simulation 💡 Strategy 🎲 Turn-Based Strategy

Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and run for President in this political strategy game. Choose a candidate or create your own and run against the opposing party’s candidate or up to 4 primary candidates controlled by the computer or other players online.

Additional Information

Developer Stardock Entertainment
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Stardock Entertainment
Store Release Date 2 May 2024 – 14:30:54 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/rgjZYyGTvM
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 2 May 2024 – 14:30:38 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 7 September 2026 – 16:48:47 UTC () (1788799727)
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Detected Technologies Unity Engine, Mono SDK, cURL SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
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  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • steam_machine_compatibility: 2
  • test_timestamp: 20 August 2025 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 16316788
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AI Content Type 1
First seen on SteamDB 10 July 2023 – 17:57:18 UTC (), in changelist #19474607

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes

Tags

🥊 PvP 🦹 Character Customization 🖥️ Simulation 💡 Strategy 🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🕰️ Alternate History 🏛️ Political Sim 👤 Singleplayer 🕹️ Multiplayer 💼 Management 🃏 Card Game 🏗️ Building 🤑 Capitalism 🏦 Economy 🏫 Education 📜 Historical 🖍️ Cartoony 💻 Modern 🎨 Colorful 🃏 Card Battler

Categories

Single-player Online PvP Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing Multi-player PvP Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

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timestamp7 September 2026 – 16:49:00 UTC

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timestamp 2 May 2024 – 14:30:43 UTC

Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
2512091 Windows 693.49 MiB 435.17 MiB
2512092 macOS 697.05 MiB 436.59 MiB
2512093 90.15 MiB 75.05 MiB

Total size on disk is 1.45 GiB and total download size is 946.81 MiB.

Total size on disk is 783.64 MiB and total download size is 510.23 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Built Time Updated
public 25085899 2 September 2026 – 18:05:38 UTC 2 September 2026 – 18:05:38 UTC
insiders Preview Upcoming Builds 25085895 2 September 2026 – 18:05:19 UTC 2 September 2026 – 18:05:19 UTC

Other

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workshopdepot The Political Machine 2024 (2512090)
privatebranches 1
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