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The Political Machine 2024
Not enough reviews
Started playing 74% of owners
Steam reviews 74% positive of 270
What the data shows
- Only 271 reviews so far — too early to tell.
- 74% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
Not enough reviews.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (74.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (21)
- Figure of Speech Make a speech that flips a state color to your party’s leaning. 100%
- Winning Argument Get a higher audience rating than your opponent in a debate. 88%
- Build-A-Candidate Workshop Create a custom candidate. 86%
- Indebted Finish a turn with less than 0 funds. 83%
- Hocus POTUS Win a game of Presidential mode. 76%
- PAC it Up Spend more than 50 Political Capital in one game. 64%
- Approve This Message Make an ad about your opponent opposing an issue. 61%
- State Connections Have active card effects in 5 different states. 57%
- Primary Nomination Win a game of Primaries. 56%
- Primary First Step Win the Iowa caucus. 40%
- Trump Card Win with the Trump Populism deck with any candidate. 33%
- Community Effort Win with the Democratic Socialism deck with any candidate. 28%
- Fund Bucks Earn more than 2 million funds in a single fundraiser in a state. 19%
- Biden Back Better Win with the Biden Liberalism deck with any candidate. 18%
- Political Networking Play a multiplayer game. 14%
- Electoral Build Up Have one of every max-level building during a playthrough. 13%
- Test of Faith Win with the Evangelical Conservative deck with any candidate. 12%
- Flawless Victory Win every state in a presidential game mode. 9.6%
- Election Results Win a game on Presidential mode on November 5th of any year in real life. 5.9%
- With Authority Successfully trigger the Military Backing card in the Authoritarianism deck. 4.2%
- No Gods, No Masters Successfully trigger the Empower the Masses card in the Anarchism deck. 3.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.