The Age Of Politics Demo

Politics is not the kind of game that’s played fairly by everyone involved, which is part of the reason why some people enter it. Sometimes it can be a great way to help people and put influence to good use, but other times bad persons use their power to get more money. There are many strategy games out there that focus on armies and combat, but very few of them take politics into account.

The Age Of Politics is an upcoming strategy game in which you take the reigns of an entire empire and do your best to survive for a few thousand years as you lead your people toward progress. Unfortunately, the game is not very polished at this point, and it also features many bugs and inconveniences you have watch out for, but the underlying idea is very promising.

The action starts in the year 500 AD, and you have to manage your empire for at least 3000 years in order to be successful. Although it looks like a regular strategy game at first, the focus is on politics and diplomacy instead. Thus, you have to maintain foreign relations and pick a side from the beginning, although troops and armies enter the equation as well.

The interface is very important in the genre, because there is no actual combat to distract you. When all you can see is a handful of buttons and a static background, it becomes much more important to have a helpful interface. Unfortunately, that is not the case here, because it’s very difficult to find out what needs to be done, and the tutorial is not particularly helpful either.

The graphics get a pass in such cases, but not very much so when it comes to The Age Of Politics, because everything is just too simple and downright ugly sometimes. The background scene does not even make sense in the grand scheme of things, and the colors are badly chosen most of the time.

In the end, The Age Of Politics may have some nice things going in terms of underlying ideas, but that is sadly not the case once you actually start playing. Thus, it needs a lot more work for the game to be enjoyable.