Counties Work

iCivics

About this game

Want to try your hand at running your own county government? In Counties Work, you can! Stay on top of resident requests as you develop the local community, make important budgeting decisions and solve crises that pop up along the way.

This upgraded version of Counties Work includes the following:
- A Texas edition: Play deep in the heart of Texas with custom art, content and more!
- Voiceover and glossary
- New department guide tool
- Updated financial management interactions

For English Language Learners: This game offers a support tool, Spanish translation, voiceover and glossary

Teachers: Visit our Teach Hub to check out our classroom resources for Counties Work and Counties Work: Texas.

Learning Objectives:
- Simulate the role of county government, including organization, responsibilities, and services
- Identify appropriate resources and departments of county government to solve problems
- Consider how a budget and major sources of local revenue affect both services and citizens

Game Features:
- Create your county, parish, or borough government with more customizable options
- Review and address resident needs and requests by escorting them to the correct county department
- Address community crises through strategic action
- Manage the annual budget through property and sales tax adjustments and spending choices
- Grow the community through expansion opportunities

Ratings and reviews

Love it! like I do most of the icivics games. Only reason I docked a star is that I ran into a problem where in emergency situations I'd take things to the right dept and the task would still fail. Not sure if its a bug or if those events are meant to have rng with failure as a possibility but it was frustrating.

This is an interesting and fun game. However, it is only about 40 minutes long since you can only play for 4 years, even if you get reelected, and after 1 playthrough it gets pretty repetitive. I would recommend this game to anyone looking for a quick little management game that won't take too much time out of your day.

it's good! really entertaining and informative. however, i find that the customers are a little impatient! it's probably realistic to be quite honest, but it's still really stressful and rather frustrating.

What's new

Bug fixes