

Democracy 3
Positech Games · October 14, 2013 · Political Sim, Simulation, Politics, Strategy, Indie
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Democracy 3 price by region
Democracy 3 costs £5.85 in the United Kingdom, €6.29 in Europe (EUR), $7.49 in the United States, $7.49 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.69 in Canada, A$10.79 in Australia, NZ$11.09 in New Zealand, R$14.25 in Brazil and zł26.99 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £5.85 −70% | £5.85 | £6.30 | 6 | |
| €6.29 −70% | €6.29 | €7.15 | 8 | |
| $7.49 −70% | $7.49 | $8.35 | 8 | |
| $7.49 −70% | $7.49 | — | 2 | |
| CA$8.69 −70% | CA$8.69 | — | 2 | |
| A$10.79 −70% | A$10.79 | — | 2 | |
| NZ$11.09 −70% | NZ$11.09 | — | 2 | |
| R$14.25 −70% | R$14.25 | — | 2 | |
| zł26.99 −70% | zł26.99 | zł33.05 | 4 |
Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.
Trailers & screenshots
About Democracy 3
Lead your virtual nation through complex political challenges by enacting policies that ripple across your economy and society, navigating the competing interests of 21 distinct voter groups with individualized motivations and beliefs. Democracy 3 stands out with its neural network-driven voter simulation and intuitive interface that lets you trace how a single policy decision cascades through employment, crime, tourism, and national debt.
Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change...Have you got the answers to the problems that face western industrialized nations? Here is your chance to find out...
An entire virtual country
Democracy 3 simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. A custom-designed neural network is used to model individual voters, each which varying memberships of voting groups, political parties and pressure groups. Each voters income is modeled, along with their levels of complacency and cynicism. This is the most sophisticated political strategy game ever created.

Unique user interface
Despite being vastly detailed under-the-hood, Democracy 3 has a unique user interface that makes visualizing the connections between laws, policies, voters and situations easy. A simple iconic-based view of your countries issues allows you to 'drill-down' through all the relationships between policies and voters to quickly analyze the impacts of your decisions. Your trade policy may affect GDP, which will affect unemployment, which will effect poverty, and thus crime, leading to a change in tourism, which affects GDP...
Complex simulated voters
Each individual voter is a mixture of a subset of the 21 different voter groups represented within the game. They might be a young, wealthy, liberal socialist commuter, or a retired conservative religious capitalist, for example. Not only this, but the extent to which they identify each of those groups is both variable, and can be affected by your policies in the long term. Convert your country to religion, or atheism, to capitalism, or socialism by careful and nuanced adjustment of your policies and laws over time. A 'focus group' feature lets you look at individual voters and see exactly how they came to a decision to vote for you (or not!).
Mod Support
Democracy 3 is very configurable and trivial to mod. It also has steam workshop support, for easy installation and browsing of modded content. Want to mod the game yourself? no problem, you need zero coding experience, just a spreadsheet program or a text editor, and we have a full comprehensive modding guide available here:
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy3/modding.html
Modders can easily edit the policies, add new ones, change the way objects affect others, create entirely new countries, situations and even re-write the entire economic and political model. Everything is editable and accessible.
Coded by a single developer
Democracy 3 is the work of a single developer, Cliff Harris from the UK, an indie games veteran who has been making games since 1997 and programming since he was 11 years old. Cliff gets some 'help' from his cats, but frankly not much...Democracy 3 — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 4 of 4 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Democracy 3 is a political simulation that players find charming and intuitive for initial playtime, but most criticize as an unrealistic and ultimately unfun spreadsheet experience with difficulty spikes from unpredictable external factors that feel punishing rather than engaging. Technical issues like fullscreen crashes and complaints about pleasing conflicting voter demands add to the frustration, though some suggest it might be worth trying at a low price if you have patience for its mechanics. The consensus suggests casual interest in short sessions rather than long-term engagement.
Nothing is realistic or rewarding.
Going full screen causes the game to crash
Borderline negative where I'm trying to avoid being unfair about the game as it does have some good qualities, the biggest thing for me is how it's a bit of an unfun spreadsheet sim, the amount of things you can do is based on starting and removing sliders and having wildly different and difficult external factors that pretty much just kill you off if they happen, and I suppose just like real politics, you just can't really please everyone! However it is borderline, I do remember it being pretty fun for a few hours so if it's on Steam for a low price it might be worth a buy with just the base game, but that's it.
Idiots that dont understand politics
No.
This is a great game. The graphics are fun and charming, and the UI is so intuitive that you can jump right in without feeling overwhelmed. I had a lot of fun playing this and definitely think it is worth your time.
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