It could easily be a smartphone game. It lacks any real depth, is full of repetitive tedious tasks, totally unbalanced and makes you lose any interest after few turns. I think these developers are spam spawning these type of games 'cuz if you look closely, their other games, are designed with excactly the same philosophy.
This is not a strategy game.None of their games are actually strategy games. There is nothing to ponder, plan and execute. There not even any actual opponents. This is a, "click and click again" game in order to do the same things over and over again. The only thing is good for is to test the durability of your left mouse button. Stir away of this one unless you want something to play when totally bored out of your life.

Well if you played "Evil Bank Manager" look no further as this game is basically a sequel to it, but re-skinned. While this may be a early access game(and basically an Iphone game) as of right now almost everything can be automated and It feels like a cookie clicker. There are no events in the game that give any historical atmosphere to it. Leader portraits are the same regardless of country, but names are changed. (I had a full cabinet of Germans that looked EXACTLY like Churchill) Your dogma decisions in the end dont really matter as all it does is influence voters and your starting ideology just determines which dogmas research faster. For some reason I could "BAN Religion" in my dogma, yet "Protect Religious Freedom" in another at the same time ???
So to sum it up
- Three scenarios - PLAYS THE SAME
- 30 historical political parties. - NO FLAVOR
- Newspaper publishing - IRRELEVANT
- Propaganda system - LOL NOT A THING
- The system of election fraud - IRRELEVANT
- Adoption of party dogma - MADNESS
- Party leaders, Party posts - GERMAN CHURCHILL's FOR DAYS BABY!

There really is no method to the madness, but I know that there always needs to be a bright side to every review so the only good or cool thing about the game and that is the "start date".
After wasting 4 years of my life to get a crappy degree I can tell you that the political ramifications of the 1932 German election and results were catastrophic not only to Europe but created mass turmoil and roundups on the German people that followed right after the burning of the Reichstag a air of fear and zealotry was created in Germany that would haunt many to this day... This game is set before that, this game has nothing to do with that, but hey now you can say the communist won the 1932 elections...

Boring, simple turn clicker with no depth or interest

Cannot recommend. A very good concept, but poorly executed or unfinished. Very low replayability.
EDIT: Played as a German far-right party, won the election and was told that I had prevented the far right from gaining power? What nonsense.

A game with a great premise where the gameplay revolves around creating the propaganda and support for a political party in one of three countries in 1932 in a turn-based setting. The game disappoints with its shallow gameplay, repetitive sound design, terrible UI, and a meaningless menu.

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Tutorial
The tutorial for Evil Democracy: 1932 pretends that it is interactive when it really isn’t. It tells the player to click specific buttons or perform actions when clicking anywhere will progress the tutorial forward. This made it difficult to learn the game as I wanted to explore slightly before moving on but instead I was shuffled to the next feature unceremoniously. I do wish the tutorial had actual player engagement as it would have alleviated some of my early confusion.

Parties & Policies
Before starting a scenario, the player must pick a party. The only real differentiation is that the parties have various handicaps applied to them in the form of a lack of supporters for votes or sponsors early on. They also allow the player to pick from a selection of policies which are stat bonuses that often have major downsides. The player has to pick one and it takes a bit for it to be adopted. Once adopted it will provide its bonus, but it will cause a lot of negatives. I found that some policies were not worth picking up because their negatives. Once a policy is adopted the player can choose another one to start implementing. This is basically the research of other strategy games. Most research provides bonuses only and not negatives. This system is not especially fun as only a handful are available at the beginning of the game for each party and they simply are stat upgrades which takes away some of the impact of getting a new policy. I would really like it if policies changed up game mechanics nearly completely upon adoption so that there is more of an interesting reason to pick a particular one.

Leaders
Leaders are the people that run a party. They hold great power which is why it is so unfortunate that they are relegated to bonuses again. There are eight slots with five different jobs. Editor increases the amount of voters and sponsors acquired from leaflets and papers. Protest organizers provide increased effectiveness to the protests and strikes that can be ordered by the player. The second slot only gives fifty percent effectiveness. The sponsor focused leadership position focuses on getting sponsors and so does its fifty percent reduced second slot. The treasurer increases income and the last job increases the bonus to falsified election results. These jobs are based off of one or more of the four stats that each party member can have. The starting leader has one-hundred stat points in every category, but junior leaders that are hired later will have randomized stats which can be increased by using the newspaper up to a cap of two-hundred.

Staff
There are two types of staff in this game. They are the newspaper staff who are important and individually organized and minor staff which provide bonuses when they are placed around in-game map. Newspaper staff have four stats. The leaflet stat increases the amount of sponsors and voters from printed leaflets. There is only one slot for this job. Newspaper stats increase the effectiveness of newspapers to increase the party’s voters and sponsors. Interviewing skill allows the journalist to write great articles about the player’s leaders thus increasing their stats. The better the interviewing skill, the higher the stat boost. Investigation skill allows the journalists to write one of two articles. The first type of article is digging up dirt on an opposing political party. This will decrease the amount of sponsor they have. The second type is slander which focuses on stealing voters from an opposing party, the one the articles is written about.

Newspaper
Every couple of turns, the player must write a newspaper and leaflets. The more money they have the more issues can be printed. Newspapers are the main source of getting voters and sponsors and they will often add a lot of them. Leaflets further supplement the amount of sponsors and voters, but it is often more important to spend most of one’s money on newspapers. Three articles can also be placed in the newspaper which are the interviews, slander, dirt that the journalists are working on.

Final Election
After a set amount of turns, the game enters an election cycle. The election cycle tallies up all of the votes and then the party with the highest percentage wins. The main quality of life issue I have with this is that the election results button doesn’t work. I thought the game was broken but instead I had to end my turn.

Automation
One of my major issues is that the game is shallow, and there are plenty of options for automation for mechanics such as newspaper and minor staff placement.

The premise is interesting in that the player is running the propaganda side of a political party. They have to get sponsors as well as supporters so they are voted into power at the end of the time period given.

The sound design is rather repetitive. The sound effects occur after every turn, and this is quite true if the player is skipping multiple turns because they are saving up money which in turn causes the same change jingling sound effect to play. The music is samey and doesn’t fit the period at all. Germans have modern rock and Britain and France sound like they are ready to perform a new freestyle rap.

The best graphics in this game would be the portraits for leaders and newspaper journalists. These portraits look painted and provide a character that the player can relate to. The rest of the graphics are nice but don’t add a ton. I wish that the three icons at the bottom of the screen in map mode were different. I dislike how the graphic moves around when moving the mouse. It is unnecessary.

The game controls only with a mouse. The controls aren’t very good and require too many clicks to do things. To send out campaigners takes at least seven clicks which gets irritating to do once every turn if the player has the money. That is only one task that may have to get completed on a single turn. This makes the game feel more like a clicker than a strategy game as the controls require the same monotonous if the players want to feel like they have agency.


Easy to Alt-Tab: Yes
The game runs well and there aren’t any noticeable hitches in FPS.

I completed all of scenarios and got seventy percent of the achievements in 2.2 hours.
PrCR: 0.2 – Abysmal Value

👍 Pros 👍
Interesting Concept

👎 Cons 👎
Boring Gameplay
Frustrating UI
Disappointing Music

Thats hardly a game at all. And it has nothing to do with democracy.
Its basically a minigame where you hire journalists to create 'stories'. Every 5 turs you pick the best 3 and publish them. This creates supporters and supporters get you money to hire more journalists.
The whole thing is so simple that they added an 'automatize' button.
Oh, and you can organize a protest. For that you click the protest button and this costs money and creats supportes, thats all. There is an 'automatize' button here as well.
Now you just have to click end-turn until the game is over.
If you have enough supporters you win the election and you can form a coalition. Thats the most fun part of the game for the whole 60 seconds it lasts until you realize that this has no effect on anything at all.

Oh, and the german version is censored. So if you read 'Evil Democracy: 1932' and think NSDAP, thats a no-go.
Not that it matters, all parties are exactly the same except the logo and the name.

The game is both repetitive and shallow.

There is little to do other than press the end turn button.

They should add more mechanics to the game, more flesh and muscle. It is too barebones.

The repetitiveness and lack of variety kills this game. You always do the same thing over and over again and those things are limited.

The music is not fitting the era too. They could have composed music of that time for each playable country plus some American swing-like music. I simply killed the music and tuned in to Swing Street Radio for the ambiance.

The concept is okay, nothing new though. The dev should really add some mechanics unique to their game. It is too déjà vu (but mostly shallow).

I finished the game once and uninstalled it. Way too boring due to its repetitive nature.

Don't buy unless you can get this HEAVILY discounted

In the pack containing five "Hamsters Gaming" games I got this game. The pack was ~20 bucks. That's around five games so four bucks per game pretty much makes this game worth it.

I got this because it was recommended to me by Steam given I dabble in RTS and Grand Strategy. This game isn't all that deep. Evil Democracy is a game where you attempt to win elections in three different scenarios (Germany, Britain, France) in the 30's.

Mechanically speaking: You push buttons. You push the 'end turn' button, the journalist button, you push a button to hire dudes, and you push a button to give the dudes jobs. The most tedious element of this process is when the game prompts you to make an unreasonable amount of newspapers, leaflets, or other maguffins so that you get some cash from congress or more votes.

Your aim is to push buttons until the amount of voters you get surpasses the other political parties. You want different stats like your budget, profit, votes, and sponsors to go up more and more each turn so that you can print more newspapers and deploy more activists to win the election.

See, if you can get this game really cheap then to me it's worth it. I don't think this game has enough features nor is it more complicated than Cookie Clicker. If you're expecting some deep Paradox experience or a complicated RP Strategy experience set in the WWII era then you should pass on this. I can't quite recommend it, but I'll thumbs it up because it was a unique experience at least :/

I really like the implementation of the dogma mechanics in the game. Dogmas are the principles of the party. For example, one can accept the dogma of individual liberty, but then one cannot accept the dogma of unconditional service to the nation. Particular Dogmas have advantages and disadvantages. For example, one will give you an advantage with the electorate, but a disadvantage with the sponsors, etc. All this is especially interesting in the context of the possibility of creating your own unique party at the start, rather than choosing from the proposed

The game's concept is interesting but it's still pretty rough around the edges. It may be worth watching to see how it's fleshed out before you pick it up.