Fit check
Is Secret Government worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want to influence several countries instead of ruling one directly
- Historical strategy fans who enjoy changing political events through indirect control
- Players who like tracing connected economic, social, and military consequences
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players expecting direct control of a nation will encounter the game’s indirect-influence structure immediately
- Players seeking a primarily military strategy game may find the political, social, and economic systems too broad
- Players looking for settings outside 1685 and 1775 will find the available historical periods narrow
Our take on Secret Government
Players will bounce when they try to command a country directly or attack one themselves. The game requires influence through agents, institutions, laws, and political conditions, making indirect manipulation the point where conventional grand-strategy expectations stop applying.
What is Secret Government?
Lead a secret brotherhood rather than a single country in this global strategy game.
Send agents to recruit public servants and enter institutions of power. Influence governments through laws, ideologies, military policies, economic policies, and forms of government, then provoke wars, peace, or alliances. Countries contain social estates whose members can be born, die, migrate, and change roles. Production, resource use, trade, food, industry, and military strength interact, creating consequences across the world. Choose a desired world order, develop the Grand Master’s traits, and assign brothers to specific tasks. Free play includes the years 1685 and 1775. Two story campaigns cover England’s Glorious Revolution and the thirteen colonies’ struggle for independence, with missions that can follow or alter historical events.
How Secret Government plays
- 01Indirect country control
- Shape national behavior through laws, ideologies, governments, and policies rather than issuing direct orders.
- 02Agent infiltration
- Dispatch agents to recruit public servants and enter influential institutions.
- 03Interlinked economies
- Production, resource consumption, trade, food, and military strength affect one another across countries.
- 04Changing social estates
- People can be born, die, migrate, and move between social groups with different roles and needs.
- 05Two story campaigns
- Play missions about England’s Glorious Revolution or the thirteen colonies’ fight for independence.
Secret Government compared to similar games
Old World centers on leading an empire across generations, with political marriages, heirs, and long-term legacy. Secret Government instead directs a brotherhood that influences multiple countries through agents, institutions, laws, economies, and alliances.
Secret Government: platforms & release
Is Secret Government worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want to influence several countries instead of ruling one directly. Skip it if: players expecting direct control of a nation will encounter the game’s indirect-influence structure immediately.
Where can I download Secret Government?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Secret Government's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Secret Government on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
