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Released Sep 21, 2026 Early Access $19.99 Mostly Positive Not counted on Steam profiles yet

EQUILIBRIUM

By Obliquon Corporation

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Reviews 11 Mostly Positive
Players now 0 Peak today 0
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About EQUILIBRIUM

EQUILIBRIUM is a game tagged Political Sim, Sandbox and Strategy by Obliquon Corporation, released Sep 21, 2026. It has 11 Steam reviews (Mostly Positive). The Steam games most like it include SIM Election USA, Lawgivers and The Shadow Government Simulator.

Govern by typing: cut taxes, nationalize energy, declare a state of emergency. Every order becomes real economic and political consequences. How long can you keep the EQUILIBRIUM?
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Steam data

Everything Steam lists for EQUILIBRIUM · record updated 21 hours ago

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Overview

App ID4661850
Release dateSep 21, 2026
Last change number39943299
Last record update21 hours ago

App info

App type
Game
Developer
Obliquon Corporation
Publisher
Obliquon Corporation
Steam profile
Not counted yet: Steam is still getting to know this game, so it doesn't add to game counts or achievement totals · checked 22 hours ago

Platforms

Windows 64-bit

Features

3
Single-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Prices

Price · US$19.99
On sale0 of 41regions right now
Lowest seen · US$19.99Oct 23, 2026
Checked22 hours agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Patch notes

3
  1. Oct 11, 2026 Weekly devlog: a big week under the hood (v0.8.3)

    WEEKLY DEVLOG: A BIG WEEK UNDER THE HOODHey everyone, Andrea here.Small confession first: this devlog is a couple of days late. This week I disappeared into the engine room and I wanted to finish the job before writing about it.WHAT CHANGE…

  2. Sep 27, 2026 Patch notes: the numbers now add up

    Hey everyone,This update is all about one thing: when the game shows you a number, it should be right. A lot of this came straight from your feedback on Discord and by email, so thank you. Special thanks to Masonator, whose China playthrou…

  3. Sep 16, 2026 The game is ready, the page isn't. An update.

    THE GAME IS READY, THE PAGE ISN'TEQUILIBRIUM was due out in Early Access on September 10. It's the 16th and it still isn't on sale.Anyone with the game on their wishlist is looking at a page with a date that's already passed and no explana…

Builds

1
BuildBranchUpdated
25558904publicSep 27, 2026

Depots

Depots

1
IDNameSystemsSizeDownloadManifest
4661851 — All 267.8 MB 103.2 MB 6885316781906987430

Branches

1
BranchBuildUpdatedAccess
public 25558904 Sep 27, 2026 Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/EQUILIBRIUM

Launch options

1
ExecutableArgumentsSystemsDescription
Equilibrium.exe Windows · 64-bit Launch EQUILIBRIUM

Cloud saves

Space per player100.0 MB
Filesup to 40
Save locations1
RootPathPatternSystems
gameinstallSavesDir*.savAll

News

  1. Oct 24, 2026 · Community Announcements Weekly Devlog: Japan breathes again, presidents, and budgets that make sense

    WEEKLY DEVLOG: JAPAN BREATHES AGAIN, PRESIDENTS, AND BUDGETS THAT MAKE SENSEHi everyone,another week, another round of fixes. A lot of this came straight from your reports on Discord, so thank you.JA…

  2. Sep 25, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #11 — 27 out of 28

    27 OUT OF 28A few days ago a Japanese player on our Discord asked me a simple question: does the election system in EQUILIBRIUM reflect how each country really works?The honest answer was: partly.Wha…

  3. Sep 22, 2026 · Community Announcements Localization fixes, and thanks for reporting

    LOCALIZATION FIXESTwo days after launch, two players used the in-game feedback button to report text showing up in the wrong language. One was playing in Russian, the other in English as South Africa…

  4. Aug 27, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #10 — September 10

    SEPTEMBER 10This is the tenth devlog and the last one before release.The first nine were written for people following the project while I built it. This one has to work for someone arriving now, who …

  5. Aug 20, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #9 — The word that broke the game

    THE WORD THAT BROKE THE GAMEThe tester types into the terminal: "Raise VAT by 3% on non-essential goods"The game shows: "Raise VAT by 3% on non-essential gAdriatic Energyods"WHAT WAS HAPPENINGThe com…

  6. Aug 15, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #8 — The economy had no income

    THE ECONOMY HAD NO INCOMEThis week I found a flaw that had been there from the start, and that nobody — myself included — had seen.In the formula that calculates fiscal space each turn — how much roo…

  7. Aug 8, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #7 — When the State Can No Longer Pay

    In most management simulators, running out of money means one thing: you lost, start over.In EQUILIBRIUM, running out of money is where the interesting part begins.Because a state that can no longer …

  8. Aug 1, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #6 — The Time You Spend

    In the last devlog we talked about what your government cannot do: the commands that treaties, the constitution and the law won't let you execute.This week we're talking about the constraint that rem…

  9. Jul 24, 2026 · Community Announcements DEVLOG #5 — WHAT YOU CANNOT DO

    The EQUILIBRIUM terminal accepts anything you type.That doesn't mean your government can do it.This is the distinction we spent the longest working on, and it's what separates a government simulator …

  10. Jul 18, 2026 · Community Announcements Devlog #4 — Your nation, not a generic nation

    YOUR NATION, NOT A GENERIC NATIONWhen we started testing EQUILIBRIUM outside Italian, a problem surfaced that had nothing to do with translation. It had to do with respect for nations.A Norwegian pla…

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