The Path to Democracy
A 16-bit political strategy game set in North Korea.
Dismantle a dictatorship from the inside.
12 unique officials — each with loyalty, competence, and a hidden agenda. The Hawk wants nuclear war. The Scientist leaks data to the IAEA. The Opportunist will betray you the moment you show weakness.
25+ hand-crafted events and AI-generated crises. South Korean drones drop K-pop USBs. The Pope offers a visit. Your generals plot in the bathhouse. No right answers — only consequences.
Too much fear and the regime collapses. Too little and the generals stage a coup. Walk the razor's edge between control and reform while keeping 26 million people alive.
It's always there. Always tempting. The generals might refuse. The missile might explode on the pad. Or it might work — and then the world ends.
Your spy chief delivers reports — if competent enough. Discover double agents, expose conspirators. But some reports are disinformation. Trust no one completely.
On iOS 26+, the game generates unique events using Apple's Foundation Models. No two playthroughs are the same. Fully on-device — no cloud, no data sent anywhere.
Juche Rising does not collect, store, transmit, or process any personal data whatsoever. The app operates entirely offline and requires no internet connection.
In Apple's App Privacy labels: Data Not Collected. We don't collect data because there is nothing to collect.