Statecraft

Statecraft puts you in the position of a political faction vying for power in a fictional nation beset by a different scenario in each game, you might be battling against a rival faction in a bitter financial crisis, or attempting to stage a coup d’etat and wrestle power from a tyrannical incumbent.

You’ll start with a single character, your faction’s leader, and slowly build up a team of experts and agents, who’ll provide you with the platform to develop your manifesto. Every card presents you with a choice, nationalise or privatise? Fund or defund? Liberalise or regulate? Invade or support? Poison or besmirch?

In each game you’ll be striving to recruit supporters to your cause, so you’ll have to carefully manage your promises and actions to ensure you gain more support than your rivals. Watch out though, the political world is a volatile one…