Rogue State Revolution

Do you like political simulators where you can develop a Mid-East country from the ground up? Do you enjoying reading about different political factions and balancing one’s interest against another? Would you be up for making difficult policy and budget decisions? Then you absolutely need to play this game. The developers have a keen insight into politics, gaming and of course the all important sense of humor. You will not regret it. Stop what you’re doing, take work off for a week, fake an illness, turn your smartphone off, don’t answer the door and buy this game!

This game does a great job at simulating the running of a “rogue state” to great detail. The game puts you in the seat of the leader who has to make decisions on economic, politics and military. You have to balance the needs of your people, increase your economy and deal with any rebellions. Most of the details are abstracted, so it is not that much of a chore to manage all three. The real challenge is placating your ministers and their missions, the different provinces, your neighbors and international super powers. Doing all of this while ensuring you win elections is the heart of the game. The developers also went to great lengths to includes funny cut scenes and some fantastical game content to remind us all that while this game is close to political reality, it is still just a game.

Played Rogue state Revolution for 8 hours straight. The game is just too good, it is such an important breath of fresh air. I have played hundreds of games but this was something truly new and unique. I had an illegal copy at first due to “low prosperity scores” in the Russian federation but after a few hours of playing, I bought a copy and didn’t regret it a single bit. This game is progressive, humorous, and smart. Little Red Dog Games didn’t make this game solely for money but for all of us to appreciate and enjoy, plus they support and update the game constantly. For that I am truly grateful, I wish we had more developers like them. I have seen that there is still hope for game development, Rogue state made me feel happy as never before about videogames.

Built the nation that ranked higher in prosperity than Canada, created a decent welfare state and promoted nationalism. Made a decent amount of monthly income for the country and had minimum of 55% approval rating among every province. Trying to further improve the country before election and hopefully win against a minister running against me. One month before election, USA commences Operation Desert Storm on me and overthrew my prosperous government over concerns of me making WMDs. Country goes to ****. 10/10 for realism. It hurts.

I pissed off my defense minister in my first term, so found myself entirely unable to recruit new troops. Which was unfortunate because my clandestine site had a breakthrough in AI research, and the site was churning an alarming amount of robots set on destroying humankind. Meanwhile two Russian backed neighbors took this opportunity to invade, and then my Defense Minister decided to run against me in the upcoming election for my potential second term. I did not get a second term. 10/10

Very Good Game…brings the best qualities of many similar strategy games in to one complete game. Very well thought through. Also, from what I’ve seen, the Developer seems to really care about the users as well.