Win the White House
August 10, 2024
More About Win the White House
- More avatars
- New campaign slogans
- Running mate options
-Maverick Option for creating your platform
- Refreshed content, art and game play
- Option to print your personalised campaign materials
Sign up for an iCivics account to earn Impact Points and game-based achievements!
Teachers: Check out our classroom resources for Win the White House. Just visit www.icivics.org!
Learning Objectives: Your students will ...
-Explain the electoral process (primary and general elections, Electoral College)
-Identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion
-Analyze how parts of a whole interact to produce outcomes in complex systems
Game Features:
1. Create a candidate. Pick an avatar, home state, political party, and campaign slogan.
2. Choose the issues that matter to you. Battle it out with other presidential hopefuls in a primary debate by choosing the best arguments for the issues you care about.
3. Win the primaries. The primary season doubles as the game tutorial in Win the White House. Gain campaign skills by spending time and resources in Iowa and New Hampshire.
4. Win the election. As the party candidate, you must work to gain and keep momentum through targeted media campaigns and personal appearances. Running for office isn't cheap, so you'll need to find funding in friendly states. Your ability to poll will also keep you in the know and help guide you to a presidential victory!
Latest Version
1.2.4
August 10, 2024
iCivics
Game Educational
Android
1,449,149
Free
org.icivics.wtwh
Report a Problem
User Reviews
Robert Freeman
3 years ago
Seems like an incredibly fun game, but needs a difficulty adjustment or difficulty slider because the couple times I've played it I won in a landslide without any challenge. The AI does really silly things with no apparent strategy, and states for the most part seem to be biased towards the party that you choose.
A Google user
5 years ago
Solid, fun game. It's really easy to win (I don't think I've lost yet, and can score over 400 most of the time). I wish the state the candidate and veep are from mattered, and more importantly I wish it would retain my sound preferences from one session to the next.
Binky Winky
5 years ago
Win the White House is a terrific game. Positives: *Gives players a better understanding of what the Democratic and Republican parties represent. *Gives players a better understanding of the electoral college. *Easy learning curve. Negatives: *Too easy. Perhaps add something to make the game more difficult. Wish they could add more parties such as the Green Party. Great game!
J Onayo
4 years ago
As someone who has been playing this game for years, this game is excellent. It provides a sufficient, but not too terrible challenge, and it's nowhere near as biased as many other reviews make it out to be. I will say, however, it'd be interesting to have a mode where each state's values are adjusted to be similar to those in real life.
A Google user
5 years ago
Game's super easy if you know the correct strategy: grab TX, CA, FL and NY every game - that's a guaranteed 151 votes and $3 every single turn - use that to poll big money states. Then just turn over states with at least 10 votes, while ignoring your opponent's moves even if they can steal some smaller states from you, it's fine as long as you can get a bigger state in return. So easy, I finished with a 427 vote landslide once. Those who says it's hard just needs to get good.
A Google user
5 years ago
1st of all i was not knowing how to play ,then i understood the matter when i failed after 10/15 times, and I'm winning the matchs, But u can come up with the update like, ruling the party for 5 to 10 years, re-election it if it's not working on the point. and make little hard to play, and many more updates u can make in it loved it.
Will Jones
4 years ago
Mixed feelings. I'm british, never been to America in my life, despite this I decided to chose the hardest difficulty on my first and only game. I won by a landslide. This is a very easy game, your choices for what to say in appearances and ads are quite frankly common sense. However it gave me a good half an hour of enjoyment, but I probably wont play again.
Cole Bodine
4 years ago
Fun, but too easy. I understand that the game is meant to teach K12 students, but certain things like answers to interview questions and being able to flip states like NY and TX without the AI even trying to defend them take a lot of realism away from the game. You guys could take a page from The Campaign Trail's book gameplay-wise, that game has more of what I would expect in a campaign simulation game whereas I love the customization of this one.
A Google user
5 years ago
I thought it was fun. It took me a couple tries to figure out how it works, since I skipped the tutorial. Not sure it would be a game that I would want to play continuously but I can see how others would. It actually seems like it would be a good game for kids and teens. It does a very basic explanation about some of the issues, shows the reality of electoral votes and why they get focused on IRL, and requires action and counter action to fight the other side.
A Google user
5 years ago
A very good experience, the game got considerably better since the new update. However, i do have one complaint, the only one since i first started playing it (months ago) that is, realism. "How could California become red on the start of the game?" yet that was exactly what happenned. I think the momentum system should be modified slightly as to make the game more competitive or something, along with the 'poll randomizer' at the very start of one game. However, nice app.
Zahid Farooq
2 years ago
Game is good, needs improvements like, telling the player at the end which states we have flipped, including the battle ground states too, rather than just showing the states. Also include the popular vote, so we can compete for it, and lastly put in options where there's a democratic caucus, in the beginning, in which we compete to get the most delegates, to win the nomination to run for president, and an option where you put in debates with the other party just before the campaign starts.
Sanji
10 months ago
The game is too easy, I litteraly finished with double the points of my opponent in my first game. But, the game was really fun to play and easy to take in hand.
A Google user
5 years ago
I love this game and its concept! It's so easy to use and it really seems like your running a campaign. I would love it if there were third parties though, just for the fun of it. I know it's supposed to be realistic for educational purposes, but I feel like it'd be more engaging if you have the choice between many, multiple parties. Even if you just include the Greens and Libertarians.
A Google user
6 years ago
417 high for electoral votes! It would be better if there were 15-20 weeks to battle. Also states like California and New York should always start blue, while Texas and Florida should always start red. Maybe add a false propaganda button for states where there is no option for positive or negative campaign options. Give a high risk high reward for false propaganda, it would make it more interesting. Still a great game though.
Danny King
1 year ago
Awesome game can be a little easy to win, but the second time bit me as I lost. Would be neat if you had to go through every step to become President and had longer time to swing states in your favor or against you. Would even be neat if there were debates against your opponents.
nick deri
5 years ago
Good game, designed fine. Only problem is that the AI loves Alabama and Illinois for some reason? They campaign over and over again in those 2 states. Makes the game pretty easy because instead of challenging you in the states that are worth a lot of points, they let you have them in favor of those 2 states. Also, it's really easy to click the wrong state and end up fundraising or campaigning in a state you didn't mean to
eemmarabara
1 year ago
I love the game since I also love politics, it's always enticing to win a supermajority landslide in this game. But I'm only giving it 3 stars because of the following reasons: 1. There is at least no primaries gamemode. 2. You can only have 3 momentums per state. 3. States that doesn't have any issues that both candidates campaign for disables the player's ability to gain the state whilst the enemy can have momentum with a different issue that the state doesn't support nor oppose. Cheating.
Rhipkinn Rhev Ricafranca
1 year ago
Good political game for me, the graphics all of stuff in the game but I think this game will be better if it have online mode. Also only two candidates might boring sometimes, i think it's better if we have atleat 4 candidates. Overall, good and reccomended game I wish this game will bring good updates.
Jake -
4 years ago
Very enjoyable, but short and little replayability. I wish there was a longer version and let you play into presidency. My only gripe is when you decide what options you pick to advertise your party, you get 3 choices and its so obvious which is the right one it feels a little like a tick box I love the gameplay ans the way they've design it, shame its not very long
Ray Borgonia
1 year ago
A detail I'd like to suggest is a feature that will allow the user to save the electoral map result after each simulation. Maybe even how many states the parties visited and how frequent they went here and there. That is all the ideas I have in mind. It is a great game, I love playing it. It always gives me goosebumps when it happens that me and the computer fight for a battleground state. Like, just that, and California is coming back and forth until it reassuringly comes back to my arms.
