Which game has the best intrigue mechanics?

[Adeptus]

You know, things like assasinations, espionage, blackmailing, turning enemies against each other etc.

 

[Melchior]

Yes, Crusader Kings have them pretty good. And Stellaris too.

But the best intrigue mechanics has Dominion of Darkness by Adeptus7. You can corrupt whole nations and their leaders, turn heroes evil, weaken enemy with cults and plagues.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

The only game I can think of that really has it is in depth is Crusader Kings 3, but to be fair I havent played a lot of other GS games to compare it too.

 

[Pifanjr]

Shadows of Forbidden Gods supposedly does this really well, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do even after I went through the tutorial.

 

[Zloth]

It's looking like Terra Invicta has a lot of good stuff on that front.

 

[Abradab]

In Tzar RTS, you can train spy unit, which assasinate enemy unit and pretends to be this unit - both you and the owner of the original unit can give orders to this unit, so the enemy can realize that his unit is now a spy because it sometimes do things he had not ordered - I think it is pretty neat and and somehow resembles how espionage works in real life.

 

[BloodyHash]

I really like how in Dominion of Darkness you can insidiously sow hostility between enemy countries and start a war.