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| Community | New Year's Resolution: More Frequent Content Updates Happy (....🤷) 2026! It's been just over four months since Political Arena launched into Early Access, and the holidays provided a good opportunity to take stock of how things are going. You may have noticed I've pushed several small patches over the last couple of weeks. While these patches are nothingburgers as content updates go, their increased cadence stems from a major conclusion we came… | — | |
| Game update | 0.153 Update: Bug Fixes Fixed character creator settings issue that disconnected partisanship, dogamitism, presidential party and ideology inputs from game settings. · Fixed UI glitch in Character Creator that caused skill sliders to start out in the middle of the despite being at zero and labeld “awful.” · Fixed bug where party line votes could prevent one party’s yeas and nays from being displayed. | — | |
| Game update | 0.152: Minor Update Hello one and all! Two small fixes: · Fixed ui bug where partisan breakdowns weren't being properly registered in a new game. · Rewired to properly handle ironman mode / Steam Achievements | — | |
| Game update | 0.151 Update: 2Bugs2Fixed Happy bizarro week. Two small but key fixes: - Changed how the game tracks whether legislating has begun on January 3, 2025. Certain edge cases would lead to the game thinking legislating hadn't begun and cause things to go 💩. - Fixed State of the Union race condition that could allow for the same SOTU window to fire two times in a row. | — | |
| In-game event | 0.15 Update: Staff! 0.15 Update: Staff! Hiya! Let’s cut to the chase: we just pushed our 0.15 update , and as “regular updates” go, it’s a biggie. First and foremost, 0.15 introduces staff to Political Arena . Staff are arguably the most invisibly vital part of politics — and so they’re going to be among the most visibly vital parts of Political Arena . Staff will eventually be deployed across all of the game’s sy… | — | |
| In-game event | Bits and Pieces: One Month of Early Access! Political Arena has been in Early Access for one month. Yes, it was a long gestation, and our newborn is keeping us up at night, but when we gaze upon its tangled web of ambitions, outsized personalities, moral ambiguities and shifting alliances, we know it was worth it. Positive Signs Wishlists are greatly outpacing wishlist conversions, meaning there’s large numbers of players well beyond our… | 20062337 | |
| Game update | 0.13 Hotfix Small fix introducing logic to sanitize save file names to ensure they're valid for both Windows and macOS. Players were reporting crashes due to save file names with invalid characters. | — | |
| In-game event | Political Arena 0.12 Notes: Achievements! Save System Fixes! G’day! I just pushed our latest update. Gameplay updates Ironman/Steam Achievements added. Point tracking added to character creator. Cannot enable achievements going over point allotment. Vote window post-vote recap now features a party breakdown Committee windows now show a breakdown of the issues under the committee’s jurisdiction. Autosave system implemented. Escape and enter functionality… | 20011021 | |
| Game update | Unstable 0.12 Notes Political Arena Unstable 0.12 Notes - Ironman/Steam Achievements added - Point tracking added to character creator. Cannot enable achievements going over point allotment. - Committee windows now show a breakdown of the issues under the committee’s jurisdiction. - Vote window post-vote recap now features a party breakdown – Further improvements to vote window tracking to address vote discontinui… | 20011021 | |
| In-game event | Week one of Political Arena and Steam Political Sim Fest! Political Arena creator Eliot Nelson here. It’s been a week since Political Arena launched into Early Access and I wanted to take a moment from fixing bugs and building out the next updates to say "thank you" and...wow. Wow...Seriously, Wow We’re stunned by the level of interest and support for our simulated political universe. Given how quiet our launch was and the very early state of the game… | 19838476 | |
| Game update | Unstable Branch Update Having weird vote issues? Give this a try. To switch to the unstable branch, right click on Political Arena in your Steam library, select "Betas" and choose "unstable" from the dropdown. No password required. · Updated tracking of UI votes and UI vote queue. Previously a shared "CurrentVote" reference may have been improperly transitioned across votes, leading to tracking issues and passed vote… | 19852844 | |
| Game update | Hotfix 0.11 Update PROBLEM SOLVERS CAUCUS....ACTIVATE Created an unstable branch for people to try out experimental fixes and features. To access it, right click Political Arena in your library, bring up the properties window, go to betas and select “unstable”. No password required. Currently there is nothing there as of this update going live. Will likely be mostly used to see if fixes work for players having is… | 19838476 | |
| News | Political Arena is in Early Access! Political Arena has launched in Early Access! Our first release is all about the people, power and politics that drive Congress and the legislative process. Play as any senator or representative for a term of Congress and navigate a world of backroom dealing, down-to-the-wire votes, White House power jockeying and more. If you’ve purchased a copy, please consider giving us a positive review. We… | — | |
| Announcement | POLITICAL ARENA - EARLY ACCESS 0.1 - 09.02.25 Politicos – Political Arena will be entering Steam Early Access on September 2nd!!! In the meantime, Wishlist us on Steam , watch our release trailer and subscribe to our socials ( Discord | X/Twitter | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube )! What's in Early Access? Our first Early Access release is all about the people, power and politics that drive Congress and the legislative process. Customize you… | — | |
| In-game event | New Year’s Update! Happy 2024, everyone! We just released our second beta update and are heartened by our testers’ excited and constructive feedback. Our current development focus continues to be on implementing legislative mechanics and interfaces. Specifically, we’re fine-tuning the budget process, which will inform the rest of our legislative architecture – the federal budget process is the one bit of legislat… | — | |
| Community | Political Arena Beta Testing Has Begun! First, an apology. We’ve been lousy about our updates. We’re a small team and our chief goal is to get you Political Arena ASAP so you start enjoying this game. The long hours are paying off: We're excited to announce that we’re beginning beta testing! Earlier today we shared the first preview of Political Arena with our several hundred beta testers. It's a brief preview, as our goal is to get… | — | |
| Community | Keep up with Political Arena on Discord! We've had some great conversations on Discord with the Political Arena community the past few months, providing production updates, answering Qs about the game, talking politics and what games we're playing. We're on Discord, and you should be, too! Click here to join the Political Arena conversation . Team Political Arena is a small group, and though production continues apace on our beloved "… | — | |
| Community | The New York Times Profiles Political Arena! We made the paper of record! The New York Times just published a look at Political Arena . hink SimCity meets The Oregon Trail — with a little Grand Theft Auto thrown in... ...Nelson wants to educate the masses about the ins and outs of how their government really works. And entertain them, too... ...a scrappy team of game designers, marketers and grizzled industry veterans. They puzzled throug… | — | |
| Community | Political Arena Development Diary 1: POWER With Political Arena's development underway, we're pleased to present to you our first development diary. We'll be releasing these regularly to update you on our production and to highlight game features. If you haven't already, please wishlist us on Steam. Politics is the accumulation and exercise of power, and politicians amass power in a multitude of ways: Sometimes it’s luring canvassers to… | — | |
| Community | Press Recap 2: NPR and More! When we set out to make Political Arena, we knew there would be a lot of interest in the first truly comprehensive and authentic political sim, however we were blown away by just how much excitement there has been. Most amazingly, we were highlighted on NPR’s national flagship program, All Things Considered . You can also listen to the segment that aired . “How the game unfolds from there… is u… | — | |
| Community | Press Recap 1: Washington Post and More! Technically , everything that happens in Political Arena is fake news, but the buzz surrounding the game has been anything but. We were absolutely bowled over by the level of excitement surrounding our public unveiling of this first-ever top-to-bottom political sandbox. Here’s our first look back at some of the The Washington Post took a close look at Political Arena: As you climb up the politi… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.