Games had in various periods political dimensions and significance. As they are related to pastimes, games go unnoticed as agents of politics, and thus as sources of political history. But a thorough look reveals a lot of exciting cases.
Today, the online world offers a huge amount of digital games based on politics and the exercise of power. But games based on politics is not a modern phenomenon. Card packs and game boards have been used as media of visual communication to promote, directly or indirectly, political ideas.