The Mandate: Political Sim
Lead the Republic of Valcera
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The free trial is now the whole opening act: a real legislature, real floor votes, and a national budget you write and defend before anyone asks you to pay.
You are the newly elected President of Valcera, a fragile republic balanced between five powerful factions, a restless public, and a world that is watching. The Mandate is a text driven political simulation about the weight of decisions, not the noise of politics.
Every session is a week in office. You read the morning brief, consult your advisors, and face a handful of dilemmas where every option has a cost. Raise taxes, crush a strike, negotiate a trade pact, veto a bill, respond to a foreign crisis. There is no correct answer, only the leader you choose to be.
FREE TO TRY, AND THE FREE PART IS A REAL GAME
The opening act of your term is free from start to finish. You take office, survive your first crisis, run a legislative docket, whip votes on the floor of the Assembly, hold a coalition together, and write a national budget across six ministries that you then have to take to a vote. It ends with an assessment of your first hundred days, and you decide from there whether to keep governing. No subscriptions. No ads. No energy timers.
FEATURES
Six stats that shape your presidency: Approval, Authority, Economy, Treasury, Stability, Legacy
Five factions with shifting loyalties, seat counts, and vote discipline
A legislative system with a whip room, amendments, concessions, and floor votes you can lose
An annual budget across security, health, education, infrastructure, welfare, and justice, funded by tax and borrowing you answer for
Consequence engine that remembers what you did weeks ago and brings it back when you least expect it
Branching narrative across an opening act and five chapters, with multiple endings
Weekly headlines that react to your choices
Advisor cabinet with distinct personalities and hidden agendas
Legacy scoring across six dimensions at the end of your term
Rich save system, pick up your presidency whenever you have five minutes
THE MANDATE IS FOR YOU IF
You love narrative strategy, branching stories, and moral dilemmas
You want a political game that respects your time and your intelligence
You enjoy games like Reigns, Suzerain, Crusader Kings, Democracy, or Papers Please
Unlock the rest of the term once to carry your presidency through the corruption scandal, the constitutional fight, the crisis years, and the ending you earn.
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You told us the free trial was too short. You were right. This update makes it about three times longer and, more importantly, makes it the actual game.
A LONGER FREE TRIAL
The free portion used to be three weeks and three decisions. It is now the whole opening act, around ten weeks in office. Nothing was taken away from anyone: this is new free content.
AND A FREE TRIAL WITH SYSTEMS IN IT
Inside the free portion you now run a legislative docket, work the whip room, spend concessions on the Coalition Board, and write a full national budget across six ministries that goes to a floor vote you can lose. Your early decisions come back at you before the trial is over.
A CABINET
You now appoint ministers and they hold portfolios. They argue, they remember how you treated them, and they answer for what you decide.
THE ARMY
Command loyalty is tracked on its own, apart from public approval. Let it fall far enough and there is a path to a coup, with warnings before it.
THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS
The free portion now ends on an assessment of your term so far rather than a wall: six dimension ratings, weeks governed, decisions taken, bills passed, where the chamber stands, and a historian's read on how it is going. You can share it.
SHARING FOR EVERYONE
The weekly front page card is no longer locked behind a purchase. Anyone can publish their headlines.
Also in this release: legislative votes and bill passage, the annual budget and fiscal cycle, a much wider spread of events across a playthrough, impeachment you can see coming, and fixes to the endings so every one of them is reachable.
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Information
- Seller
- IndieCraft LLC
- Size
- 14.7 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full Campaign $4.99
- Cabinet Pass $2.99
- Wartime Cabinet $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 IndieCraft
