T-Shocked is a dark browser strategy game where every player is chasing the same leaderboard: the highest score before the competition closes, built by running for the Dáil as an Independent. Every turn throws a crisis card ripped from real Irish and EU headlines – housing, immigration, Garda scandals, EU institutional rot – with choices ranging from aligning with government to going fully extreme, and the fallout shifts your public support, funds, and how each faction feels about you. Consequences have real teeth: public shaming, jail, being branded far-right, captured by the Davos network, or worse – not every campaign survives to see an election.
Climb from grassroots organiser through TD and Cabinet Minister to Taoiseach, or pivot the whole run to Brussels and chase a seat as an MEP, where the real power sits with the WEF and NGO networks rather than voters. A 12-stage Influence Ladder and a growing roster of campaign assets build your income and odds along the way, and runs that end in assassination get their own memorial on the Irish Martyrs leaderboard. Runs autosave after every decision – just watch how you fund yourself, since the Shadow Backers can turn a rescue into a trap the plain, boring Credit Union loan never will.