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Game2015
Sim Junta
Developer Icehole Games
Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and... From the Steam store page
45 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Nov 27, 2025 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
31
Rotten
14 positive · 31 negative
95% range 20–46%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
22 of 68 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not a rip off of Tropico. It's a rip off of Dictator on the ZX Spectrum. Which would be great. I've wanted a new version of Dictator for years. As a cheap text game, it would be fun. Sadly, Sim Junta has less random events, a worse UI and is generally less fun than Dictator. When you're outclassed by the 1983 8 Bit game you're based on, something has gone badly wrong.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very fun and easy to play game, but is very difficult to win. Previous reviews have explained what this game is about, so I will try to share some things I have found out the hard way. Please note that all my suggestions are for Normal Level. New Game: After creating a new game check Army Chief and Police Chief Ambition. If it is too high better start another game and don’t waste your time. Is already hard enough as it is to avoid a revolution from the various parties, the Guerillas…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is interesting. Not bad, not great, just interesting. Take the core concept of Tropico, where you are an island dictator and revolution against your regime is just around the corner, yet make it a predominantly Cause and Effect type game where instead of building up an island nation like Sim City, you're more balancing budgets to not go bankrupt yet not get wiped out by rebels due to tax increases until you're rich enough to escape. It seems the only way to learn the game is to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little game! The game itself is kind of simple. Stay alive, and in power, for as long as possible. Sounds pretty easy right? Well the game is a sort of turn based game, where you spend each round allocating different resources to different official or unofficial government branches. Each time some you do so, you'll make some people happy, and some other people less happy. The key is to try and keep most people happy, or at the very least, the people who can protect you happy. Different…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great for the bargin I've gotten it for! It's a game set during the Cold War in which you are "Mr.President", the current military president of Risuena, a backwater, third-world country. This game is sorta like if Tropico had an orgy with Papers, Please, add a dash of Haiti, and this would be it's love child. It's also somewhat like that game Dictator on the ZX Spectrum (look it up, it's an old school game). Anyways, this game is a management economy game without building ♥♥♥♥ and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry for my last review... but i made a new one (i'm not that good at writing but i tried!) Ok so lets start with how the game works. Your goal is to stay as the dictator for as long as possible and to transfer as much money as you can to your swiss bank account. But to do that properly you need to screw over some people in your country. ( you start the game with income of $ -???? ) So in this game you play a dictator who uses a computer pogram in which you can select actions, see your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's text based Tropico, with the Papers, Please soundtrack. And none of the fun of either game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turn 1: sell an island Turn 2: revolution win civil war, sell another island, embezzle the whole treasury (334 mil usd) Turn 3: flee to the states The 11th dictator finally got it right 11/11 would embezzle funds and flee again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →€4.99 can't go wrong, does exactly what it says on the tin. Took a chance on it after very little info available online and had no expectations but it's actually got more depth than I expected and a nice charm to it. Assasinated after 2 or 3 months in power, would die again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for a political statistical management game, go look elsewhere. Also, if you are looking for a enjoyable game, the same applies. Sim Junta is not only too simple and too shallow, but also extremely unfair and lacking both on options as well as freedom for the player to approach the game. Do slightly different from the very few significant oipitoins you have at your disposal and it is game over with barely minutes of gameplay. The Player won't even have time to grasp basic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't understand why i lost the game when i increased spending on education and healthcare. I guess developer don't support obamacare. Game's okay, it's like playing democracy, except much simpler. Adjust taxes, spending expenses, etc. I could not save (bug) any games as saving will cause it to crash. Even when I got it at a discount of less than $5, I would still say it's only worth < $3 as there's not much aspects to it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Minimalist, and the game window sometimes freezes and doesn’t cooperate with swtiching to another program. This is mainly a puzzle game where you need to play off factions against each other until you run out of money. Contrary to what others have said, it really has nothing in common with Tropico, not even mood. I got it for less than a dollar. It’s not a rip-off, but there are better games on the Web for free. If you’re interested in a more serious game of this type, you might look up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is always great to play the bad guy :D This game is simple and fast paced but is deep enough to puzzle you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm really into strategy and management games. Not this one and would not recommend it either. The whole game is looking at a computer screen and changing a budget by steps of 10%. This to maintain "good relations" with your subjects. The whole system how this is calculated and displayed to you is tedious and boring. Game is sprinkled with cutaway scenes which do not allow any involvement in your part other than "skip with any key". Miles away and behind from Papers Please. Save your money and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sim Junta is a mostly text based ripoff of Tropico (I'll explain) where you're in charge of a third world "tinpot" country as the leader of a junta and you make budget and other decisions, click end-turn and see what RNG pummels you with. So it's basically the same theme as Tropico without any of the graphics, interesting economic interactions, fun building placements, player agency in terms of directional choices, etc etc... this is effectively just a crap browser game that is somehow being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked the game. The music does remind me of Tropico. The game is very one dimensional. So all you can/or have to do in the game is to surive. I hope the game will be developed in a more strategic way as having more economy cotrol and with more animation. If you like plain strategy you will probbably enjoy this time. But due to lack of complexity most likely the game will not keep you intertain for very long.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a pretty good game tbh..
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played really a couple of minutes... Simple game, worth about the 50% of his price (2€, not more). Sadly, it crashed after some playing... Refunded by Steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →win7 sp1 12 gb of ram 8 core cpu 1gb gddr3 yes i can run the game... however can't get past a bug... so i wont play the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your money on this dog. It's one of the biggest pieces of crap I've ever seen outside of the men's room at the all you can eat place on Main Street.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game doesn't run anymore. But, whatever, it is as bad as people are telling you. Avoid this mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too difficult to play, to survive, one good way is when US asked for building a base, then kissed their ass and asked for money. That damned Guerilla of 1000 always attacks me, and each expedition against guerilla only killed 200 of them and in next month they have as many partisan as last month. If trying to kill all prisoners will save you money but peasants and workers will get angry, releasing them will let the people of guerilla growth from 1000 to 10000. With Saving and Loading I cannot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was lackluster, In 1985 I would have downvoted this game, in 2016 its worthless.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game lacked content which caused a lack of interest, to which i tried to exit the game but the only interactive segment stayed on screen, causing me to have to enter taskmananger to manually close it.This game has potential but needs more effort put into it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It gets boring and repetative after a while, 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the only game i have ever requested a refund for. enough said.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game for me is so bad... Everything error.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a very enjoyable game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is broken - interface does not fit as it should and when you click buttons it clicks the button beneath because it doesn't fit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A text-based version of Tropico could work in theory, but here it doesn't. You're mostly managing budgets, and it gets repetitive after a while. Some of the events also seem a bit arbitrary which makes it more difficult than it should. It's now awful, but it's not that fun either.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a huge waste of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's okay. Old school sort of strategy game. I escaped with a tonne of money and have no desire to play much more than that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Simplistic turn based game with a fun premisce but poor execution, suffers from low interactivity, clunky slow sequences that show the consequences of your previous turn's actions. Goal is to siphon money out of the country. But you start the game running a deficit, which means you must increase taxes, while managing police and army budgets, avoiding a revolution. Basically one of these gauges…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a remake of an old ZX Spectrum game, but the original was better. Even that long ago!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is unforgivingly hard
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's entertaining enough. It's worth your money if you buy it on sale, I'd never spent more than a euro on this one
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is terrible. Buggy and boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried with really open eyes but this is really not a game to pay for. Simply bad. If you're into micro management of parameters, try Democracy games, or get a job as an engineer!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a pretty good gaming rig, and this thing is a glitchy disaster. Too bad, a great idea just executed piss-poor.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not much to actually do in the game not worth the 5$ do not buy this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dis is de most geweldigung spiel er is. Deze pookoes is kk lekker weetje. This Money aint monkey coming out of the sleeve.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →welkome to the simjunta installer.. W H A T ? the game is already installed, and steam asking me to install again.. sure i cancel it.. and VOILA game is running without setup... what ? lol? and .... this game..... you know... im playing all ♥♥♥♥ from steam to get achievs and cards... but this S H I T is beyond of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crap in my account.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Runs horribly and no real strategy to it
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