Island Dominion

Island Dominion is a political strategy game about running a small island state through the Cold War. You are the Prime Minister of Pelagia from 1970 to 1990, twenty-one yearly turns of coalition politics, foreign-policy pressure, and the slow accumulation of decisions that decide whether your government holds or breaks.

Each year compresses to two pivotal moves: one cabinet-level decision (a budget line, a project, a coalition vote) and one response to a major world-year event (an oil shock, a Berlin Wall moment, an IMF intervention, a sanctions package). Six political actors track their own ambitions and react to the line you pick — Adrian Varga vetoing the budget feels like Adrian Varga vetoing the budget, not a stat penalty.

The game is built around delayed payoffs and long-term costs. The line you take in year 4 is the line voters remember at the year-14 election. Reputation, sanctions, legitimacy, mandate, and trade dependence interact through visible cause-and-effect chains — there are no hidden levers. Standard mode is replayable; Ironman commits to a single run.