Third Party Rising Work in progress

A political strategy game for PC ยท in development

Start a party in your town. Take it to the statehouse.

Third Party Rising will be a real-time strategy game about building a political party from nothing. You will found your own party and your own politician in a real American town, then grow against the established parties and rival newcomers, one office at a time.

Work in progress Early access coming soon
Concept of the main map: Pennsylvania drawn county by county, coloured by which fictional party leads, with panels for the candidate, the selected county and a queue of campaign actions.
Main map. In-development interface concept, not final. Every party, person and number shown is invented.

What we are building

This is the plan for the game. None of it is playable yet.

Concept screens

These are interface concepts made to show where the game is heading. They are not screenshots of a finished game.

Concept of the party founding screen: party name, emblem and colour choices, a poster preview and platform sliders.
Founding your party. In-development interface concept, not final.
Concept of the campaign screen: door-knocking progress by town in one county, with panels for field teams, advertising and donors.
Running a campaign. In-development interface concept, not final. The figures are game numbers, not polling.
Concept of an event decision: an illustrated fictional contractor offers the player's fictional candidate an envelope of cash, with four choices.
A decision. In-development interface concept, not final. The characters are fictional.
Concept of election night: counties filling in as a fictional race between invented candidates is counted.
Election night. In-development interface concept, not final. A fictional race between invented candidates and parties.

Where it stands

  • In developmentThe game is being designed and built now.
  • Early accessComing soon. There is no date yet.
  • Full releaseAfter early access.

This page will change as the game does.