Ballot Box: Politics Game

Run for council. Survive the scandals. Win the country.

You are twenty-two, you have strong opinions, and you are handing out leaflets in the rain. Forty years from now you could be Prime Minister. Or you could still be on the council, arguing about a pothole.

Ballot Box is a one-button text life sim about a political career, set in a fictional parliamentary country. Tap to live the next six months. Choose when it matters. A whole career takes about 15 minutes.

CLIMB THE LADDER
Councillor, mayor, Member of Parliament, minister, party leader, Prime Minister. Every rung is an election, and every election can be lost.

ELECTION NIGHT
Polls in the run-up, a campaign you shape, then a count you watch come in. Polls are evidence, not promises: they can be wrong, just like real ones.

PARLIAMENT VOTES
Bills pass or fail MP by MP. Put it to a vote, water it down to win back the rebels, or shelve it before the marginals notice. The whips have a file on you.

SCANDALS
The envelope you took in your first term can come back in your fourth. Apologise, spin it, or ride it out, and watch the story hit its third day.

THREE PARTIES, FIVE KINDS OF VOTER
Join Lantern, Compass or Oak. Workers, the middle class, business, the young and the retired each keep their own score. You read it in the prose: the bus drivers' branch takes your photo off the noticeboard. The numbers come out at the end.

FEATURES
• One screen, one button, about 15 minutes a career
• More than 300 written events, with no two careers alike
• Odds shown on every gamble, and they are honest
• 16 endings, from Statesman to Never elected
• Three difficulty levels, from Intern to Politician
• Every career has a seed: give a friend the exact one you just played
• Works fully offline

NO ADS. NO TIMERS. NO CATCH.
No ads, no in-app purchases, no energy bars, no accounts, no tracking. Nothing in the game can be bought, and no outcome can be paid for.

A FICTIONAL COUNTRY
Every politician, party, city and newspaper in Ballot Box is invented. No real person, party, country or election appears in the game. It takes no side in any real election and is not affiliated with any government or political organisation.