Games for people who love simulation games.
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.
Persistent political MMO · Live, Beta 2
A House Divided
You start as one politician in a live world of hundreds. The world takes a turn every hour, around the clock: campaign funds move, bills pass, markets clear, races get called. Log off for a day and you come back to a different country.
Start in the State House and climb through the governorship and Congress to the presidency, or win a seat in one of seven other parliaments: the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Japan, China, Nigeria, and Brazil. Or skip the ballot and build an empire instead: found corporations, issue bonds, trade currencies, and fight for control of whole industries. The offices above and below you are held by other players, competing with a simulated cast of over a thousand politicians.
- One turn per hour, every hour, for over a thousand turns straight
- Eight playable countries, from the State House to the White House
- A player-run economy: corporations, bonds, currencies, central banks
- Free to play in the browser
3D transit builder · Alpha
MetroForge
A transit builder for people who love real cities. MetroForge renders ten American cities in 3D from OpenStreetMap footprints with true building heights: Manhattan's canyons, Chicago's Loop, Cleveland's lakefront, all at their actual scale.
Lay subway lines through the streets that exist, place stations where the density is, and let the demand model tell you whether anyone would actually ride. The full game is a native desktop client for Windows, macOS, and Linux; a free browser demo lets you try Cleveland first.
- Ten real cities: New York, Chicago, LA, Boston, SF, DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland
- True building heights joined from OSM and Microsoft footprint data
- A demand simulation scores every network you draw
- New alpha builds most weeks
Election strategy · Live
Electioneer
Pick a campaign and run it week by week. Electioneer covers 34 real elections across the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, and Australia, from Reagan and Thatcher to the 2024 rematch. Each one starts from its real polling and plays out its real story beats: the debate stumble, the October surprise, the late swing.
You manage the money, the staff, and eleven actions a week. American presidential duels, British multiparty brawls, and French two-round runoffs all demand different plans. Lose Pennsylvania and you will feel it.
- 34 campaigns in six countries, 1980 to 2024
- Presidential duels, multiparty parliaments, two-round runoffs
- A new daily challenge scenario every day
- Free daily challenge and starter scenarios
19th-century grand strategy · In development
Grand Century
A whole century of history in your hands, opening in 1836. Take a great power (Britain, France, Russia, or a nation you would rather see rise) and run all of it at once: an industrial economy of grain, coal, iron and steel; a parliament of reformers and reactionaries; and armies and ironclads that redraw the map.
Prices move on a single world market, provinces industrialize or fall behind, and every other great power is playing the same game against you. Raise tariffs, pass the reform before the street passes it for you, plant a claim on a neighbour, and decide whether the century is remembered as yours.
- The world of 1836: every nation, province and great power simulated
- An industrial economy of production chains, a world market and tariffs
- Politics with teeth: parliaments, reforms, ruling ideology and unrest
- Diplomacy and war, from planted claims to fleets of man-o-wars
Tidal city builder · Free in the browser
Rialto
A Venice. Not the Venice. Cut canals from the rivers and let the sea pour in, then raise a stilt-city across the tidal flats. The tide is the clock, the economy, and the antagonist all at once: it feeds you at low water and floods you at high.
Run boats hauling fish, salt, sand and Murano glass, dredge the silt before it seals your canals, and read the tide table before you build into the risk. Storms raise the sea for good and drown the districts you got wrong. Consecrate the basilica to win the lagoon.
- The tide is the whole game, and it never stops moving
- A living canal economy: boats, docks, saltpans, Murano glass, markets
- Dredge the silt, raise the murazzi, and outlast the storms
- A new lagoon every day, free to play in the browser
Survey of the live A House Divided world
25
Players on in the last hour
1,033
Turns simulated, one per hour
314
Politicians in the current world
2,524
Elections in progress
51
Player-founded parties
8
Playable countries