Lakeside Games is an independent studio building simulation games you can lose yourself in: a persistent political world that advances every hour, a 3D transit builder that imports real cities, an election-campaign game, a 19th-century grand-strategy world, and a Venice of tides and canals.
Two released · one in alpha · one in development · one free in the browser
You play one politician in a world shared with every other player. The server runs one turn every hour. Each turn pays salaries, advances bills, and counts votes. Start in a state legislature and work up to the presidency, or stay out of office and build companies instead.
Lay track through ten real American cities, modeled in 3D at real scale. A demand model estimates ridership stop by stop, so a line only works if it goes where people actually travel.
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Pick one of 34 historical elections, from Reagan in 1980 to the 2024 rematch. You get a budget, a staff, and eleven actions a week. Spend them well until election night.
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Start in 1836 and play one great power through the end of the century. You manage industry, a parliament, and armies. Rival powers run on the same rules and the same world market.
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Build a canal town in a tidal lagoon. Low water exposes flats you can build and harvest on. High water floods anything built too low. Plan around the tide or lose buildings to it.
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