The Political Process
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Political simulation and strategy drive The Political Process, a 2019 indie game focused on elections, politics, and political systems. Developed and published by Verlumino Studios LLC, it has 2,130 Steam reviews with 95% positive sentiment and a $14.99 initial price.
Overview
The Political Process is a 2019 Indie game developed by Verlumino Studios LLC and published by Verlumino Studios LLC. On Steam it has gathered 2,108 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Verlumino Studios LLC with publisher Verlumino Studios LLC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 95,000 to 221,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Political Process can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,108
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1184770
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.095K to 221K
units (median: 158K)
≈ $812K to $1.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Political Process at roughly 95,000 to 221,000 copies, with a median around 158,000, derived from its 2,108 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
14 observed days · window low $14.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-04.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 14:29 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Political SimSimulationPoliticsPoliticalStrategyIndieEarly AccessTurn-Based
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Political Process sold?
- indielist estimates The Political Process has sold between 94,860 and 221,340 units (median 158,100), derived from its 2,108 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Political Process?
- The Political Process was developed by Verlumino Studios LLC and published by Verlumino Studios LLC.
- Who published The Political Process?
- The Political Process was published by Verlumino Studios LLC, developed by Verlumino Studios LLC. See Verlumino Studios LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Political Process released?
- The Political Process was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Political Process have on Steam?
- The Political Process has 2,108 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is The Political Process worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Political Process 95% positive across 2,108 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Political Process can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Democracy 4, WorldBox - God Simulator, Long Live The Queen, Fantasy Map Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Verlumino Studios LLC's other releases and Verlumino Studios LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Political Process sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Political Process page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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