🏛️ Battle for the Hill

A free-to-play, persistent multiplayer political strategy game. Build a politician, win elections, pass laws, lead parties, run corporations, shape the courts, and fight for power in a living democracy that keeps ticking whether you are online or not.

Create a character. Pick your country and home region. Choose your ideology. Then compete against real players for offices, money, influence, and control of the state.

Early Access. Free to play. The world does not pause for you.

👤 Forge a Political Career

Create a politician with custom ideology, identity, and background

Climb the ladder: local races, state legislature, statewide office, national legislature, Cabinet, courts, or the top executive seat

Manage Campaign Strength, State Reputation, National Reputation, National Prestige, and Party Strength

Spend Political Capital on the actions that move the map

Raise money through PAC and grassroots fundraising

Run ads and attack ads to shape public perception

Pay the price for carpetbagging or switching parties: reputation, donors, and trust are not free

🗳️ Win the Vote

Contest primaries and general elections on a persistent schedule

Compete for endorsements that can tip close races

Fight presidential and national leadership contests where your country supports them

Face AI candidates that keep low-population races alive until humans step in

Invest in Competitive Party Strength Organization to harden your party's edge in key states

🤝 Parties, Caucuses, and Power Blocs

Join a major party or help build and administer one

Organize at the national and state level with chairs, treasuries, and leadership races

Join or found caucuses to coordinate players who share your lane

Use whip tools, agenda control, and party discipline to keep your side in line

Turn factions into machines: money, votes, messaging, and loyalty

📜 Write the Law

Draft, debate, and pass bills in national legislatures

Work state legislatures with real state-law outcomes

Whip votes, cut cross-party deals, and survive veto politics

Shape election rules, policy stances, and the legal environment your rivals have to campaign under

⚖️ Executive Power and the Courts

Serve as President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, Governor, or other country-specific executive roles

Appoint and run Cabinet portfolios with localized titles and institutions

Influence appointments, budgets, and national direction from the executive

Shape outcomes from the high court through appointments, challenges, and precedent

Deliver official addresses and set the public narrative from the top

💰 Corporations and the Live Economy

Run party-linked corporations with treasuries, CEOs, shares, and bonds

Claim and grow sectors across industries in a ticking market

Trade the stock market, hold bonds and gold, and track personal net worth

Manage national and state budgets as fiscal pressure hits the political system

Watch commodity markets and cross-country economic pressure change the board

Engage labor through union systems tied into the wider economy

🏙️ State and Local Government

Play the map: each region is a battleground for parties, elections, laws, and money

Govern as a state executive with appointments, election rules, and stance tools

Push state budgets, ministries, and policy that feed into national politics

Use state-level enforcement and administration tools that change how your region runs

📰 Media, Messaging, and Social Play

Publish news articles and run publications with subscribers and audience

Post Chirps, build narrative, and fight the information war in public

Message rivals and allies, track notifications, and manage your political inbox

Deploy player ads and keep your brand in front of voters

Shape corporate news as business and politics collide

🌍 A Wider World

Explore a world map and nations list beyond a single capital

Play primarily in deep simulations like the United States, with additional countries and localized institutions available as the sim expands

Face country-specific government structures: presidential systems, Westminster politics, cabinets, chambers, and titles that match the nation

Engage diplomacy, ambassadors, treaties, and wars from the defense and foreign-policy layer

Participate in international organizations and world-leader statements

Climb political and wealth scoreboards against players across the map

🪖 Military Influence

Build military influence and branch standing as a parallel path to prestige

Engage national military pages, budgets, and equipment systems where available

Use defense power as leverage, not as the only way to win

🎲 Side Games and Meta Systems

A persistent simulation clock: hourly turns for politicians and corporations, frequent election and bill processing

Political dilemmas that force real responses under pressure

Prediction play on FollyMarket

Daily lottery and casual table games for downtime between campaigns

Steam and Discord account linking for progress and community access

An in-game handbook and mechanics pages so new players can learn the rules of the road

🏆 Make History or Break It

Serve your constituents or serve yourself. Uphold the system or capture it. Build a party machine, a media empire, a corporate fortress, or a courtroom dynasty.

Every election settles something. Every bill changes the board. Every deal has a price.

Battle for the Hill is free to play in Early Access. Install it, take office, and find out how far you can climb.