Democracy 3 Collector's Edition

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Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister?

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Developer:
Positech Games
Release date:
14 October 2013
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Mostly Positive (4689)

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Description

Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.

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:

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...

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows XP
Processor:
2 gig
Memory:
1 GB RAM
Graphics:
256 MB
DirectX:
Version 9.0c
Storage:
500 MB available space
Sound Card:
any

recommended*

OS *:
Windows XP
Processor:
2 gig
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
256 MB
DirectX:
Version 9.0c
Storage:
500 MB available space
Sound Card:
any

User reviews

oLongJohnson
Not recommended | 12 Dec 2025
89.5h played

I love this game, straight up. But its broken and won't show text, making it unplayable. Apparently this is a very common bug from at least 2018 that has never been fixed, and I can't even roll back the update to play

Helpful: 14
Lumina In Tenebris
Not recommended | 25 Sept 2025
10.3h played

I played this game a few years ago for a couple of hours and had fun, but it got stale rather fast. Playing anything but a egalitarian socialist utopia isn't feasible, so the only motivation to try out a different

Helpful: 12
MetalX
Recommended | 29 Jan 2026
14.2h played

A good balance between depth and fun. As someone born in Hungary I miss propaganda, total media control and throwing dirt on the opposition party. Or maybe I just miss democracy in Hungary...

Helpful: 4
TylerDurden
Recommended | 25 Feb 2026
28.6h played

It is fun but wildly leftist biased. Its to the point where this game is pretty much liberal propaganda. Raise taxes in the US to 55 percent? Optimal strategy. Protect the president (you) with added security? EVERYONE

Helpful: 3
TEAbagU
Recommended | 09 Sept 2025
9.2h played

I became Prime Minister of Australia for life by giving them what they need and not what they want. Which was doing the bare minimum for capitalist to avoid them funding a coup or try assassinating me. Same with the

Helpful: 5
achetzu
Recommended | 05 Feb 2026
54.5h played

I like that it puts you in the shoes of a country adminstrator to see what it's like to govern everything and how complex things are. It's easy to say "we want this" or "we want that" but there is always a caveat.

Helpful: 0