The Dark Corridor- Strategy
Tom Hestas Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
The Dark Corridor- Strategy is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Tom Hestas. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated July 12, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 2 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Jul 12
- 2026 · v1.1
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About The Dark Corridor- Strategy
The Dark Corridor is a free turn-based geopolitical strategy game about the transition from AI-driven productivity to civic abundance or social collapse. Start in 2030 as the United States, European Union, China, or the African Continental Compact. Choose policies while rival powers automate, stabilize, negotiate, and escalate according to their own doctrines. The rest of the world generates pressure through food shocks, migration, debt crises, climate stress, and conflict spillovers. China is a deep campaign about provincial debt, industrial automation, hukou reform, demographic decline, strategic autonomy, and the legitimacy of the party-state mandate. The African Continental Compact is not treated as a single country. You coordinate a voluntary compact of sovereign states around power, trade, youth opportunity, infrastructure, minerals, migration, food security, and bargaining power. Track the dashboard as AI capacity rises and employment comes under pressure. The challenge is not to stop automation forever. It is to preserve human relevance, youth purpose, social cohesion, family formation, food security, legitimacy, and continuity before the system breaks. Features: - one year per turn from 2030 to 2065 - four playable geopolitical campaigns - campaign-specific policies, events, pressures, advisors, and endings - automated rival powers - yearly youth events as a leading indicator - GDP, employment, AI, fertility, cohesion, and collapse-risk charts - year-end briefings and timeline log - local saves only The tone is dark, systems-serious, and slightly satirical. The interface begins as a clean civilization dashboard and becomes more unstable as crisis indicators worsen. No account is required. The game is free to play.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated July 12, 2026
Two new deep campaigns: - China: manage provincial debt, industrial automation, hukou reform, demographics, strategic autonomy, and mandate legitimacy. - African Continental Compact: coordinate sovereign states around power, youth work, infrastructure, minerals, trade, food, migration, and external bargaining power. Also adds campaign pressure boards, signature policies and events, unique endings, a four-power geopolitical board, and improved display spacing on modern iPhones.
App privacy
The developer, Tom Hestas, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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