Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) overview

Overview

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) comes from Christopher Shove and is published by Regional Scientists. It arrived on Steam on Jan 19, 2019, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES)'s latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 17:47:28 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 50% positive across 6 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) has sold up to 164 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $483. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) overview details

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) simulates the development of North Korea's Pyongyang economy. This is an economic development simulation and not a game. Useful for an economics class. You make investments in infrastructure, security, education, workforce, food, production, or trade to grow the economy, and set tax rates. Bad weather, corruption or international grants will affect your policies. Citizens will be unhappy if your economic policies fail and will increase crime and instability of economy. Each ACES turn is one year and goes on for ten year period. At the end of each year key performance indicators and news reports are shown (After Action Report). At the end of ten years a graph shows ten-tear performance and your performance is evaluated (After Action Report). Diplomatic relations are improving with North Korea, South Korea and USA. North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un said in his New Year 2019 speech economic development is the highest priority. ACES is a teaching tool to train officials to assist North Korea development. ACES is based on accepted theories and models of international economic development and regional development. ACES includes problem variables such as urbanization and corruption common in developing nations. Other problem variables unique to North Korea are included: bad weather. In ACES, theories, models and key performance indicators are explained for students.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) is listed as a game with $4.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Simulation and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 17:47:28 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 50% positive reviews.

Overview tags

SimulationStrategyEducationEconomy

Support and legal notes

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