Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory

Hegemony delivers an asymmetric socio-economic simulation where four players embody distinct classes—Working Class, Middle Class, Capitalist Class, and The State—each with unique abilities, victory conditions, and conflicting interests. The experience feels like participating in a living economy where every decision ripples through society. Tension builds as players negotiate, manipulate policies, and compete for limited resources while maintaining their class's stability. The State player acts as both referee and participant, balancing competing demands while pursuing their own agenda. Games evoke genuine political emotions: frustration at inequality, satisfaction from successful reforms, or triumph when exploiting market gaps. The asymmetry creates natural drama as classes must cooperate to prevent collapse yet remain fundamentally opposed. Strategic depth emerges from understanding interdependencies—workers need jobs, capitalists need labor, everyone needs the State's services. Each session tells a unique economic narrative with real consequences that players discuss long afterward.