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.

 

[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.