Build your candidate from a first stump speech, survive the primary and the convention, and win 270 electoral votes state by state. Then actually govern: all 1,460 days of a term, the midterms that can wreck it, re-election, and — if the country lets you — a second term and a farewell address. Not a highlight reel. The whole career.
POTUS Election Sim puts you in charge of a presidential run from the ground up — full primary season, convention drama, and a running-mate decision that matters, as a Democrat, a Republican, or a third party you build yourself. Election Night plays out as a real-time set piece: states report in live, networks make calls, and you sweat every tossup.
Win, and the game doesn't end at the inauguration. Your First 100 Days set the tone — cabinet confirmation battles, a flagship bill, your first crisis — before the full term unfolds with treaties, executive orders, Article V amendments, a Supreme Court that remembers who appointed it, and a live world stage underneath it all.
Create a politician and start anywhere — state legislator, Mayor, House, or straight for Governor. Win a state and actually govern: sign or veto bills, survive override votes, balance the budget, handle disasters, and live with every clemency call you make.
01 — PresidencyNot a quiz. Advisors brief you on real situations, you respond in your own words, and the consequences resurface months later.
02 — Powers of the OfficeA 67-vote Senate ratification fight. A federal judge waiting on your executive order. An Article V moonshot only 27 amendments have ever survived.
03 — World StageLive diplomacy with 14 world powers who remember how you've treated them, declared wars fought on a battlefield map, sanctions, and covert ops.
04 — Political PlaygroundPolicy Lab, the Situation Room, the Spin Room, the Cabinet Draft, a voter-persona quiz, and a Hall of Fame — all built on the game's own engines.
05 — Challenge ScenariosOne-click scenarios from a 38%-approval comeback to a scripted 1933-style collapse. Fixed president, fixed crisis, one loud objective.
06 — Local AINo cloud, no subscription, no API keys. Free-text decisions generate real consequences, headlines, and reactions, offline.
You have captured the exact experience I've been trying to find since I was a kid playing on the computer at my grandmother's.
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Playable instantly on itch.io, and staying free for good. New gameplay expansions are headed to the Steam edition instead.
Play on itch.io →The full campaign-to-presidency experience, and where the game's future is headed — Steam Achievements and every expansion after launch.
View on Steam →Your advisor is watching the same board you are. It flags soft states before you lose them, reads the room after a debate, and tells you — bluntly — when a story is about to break.
> analyzing swing state: pennsylvania
> momentum +3.2 following last night's debate
> recommend increasing ad spend, rust belt media markets
> alert — opposition research flags a developing story