Democracy 3
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in November 2014. 77 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Age of History II ($0.89, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sigma Theory: Global Cold War ($17.99, scores 31).
4 of the 572 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 928 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.5 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 4.4 times as long.
The drop-off
63% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Democracy 3 is a political simulation that takes an unconventional approach to strategy by putting players in the position of a democratically elected national leader rather than a military commander or city planner. Instead of focusing on warfare or territorial expansion, the game revolves around governing a modern nation through policy decisions that affect every aspect of society. Players are responsible for...
Pretty fun concept but it gets REALLY stale REALLY fast, it took me nearly a decade to come back and 100% it.
Honestly, what a hot piece of garbage. And it's expensive too. There are only two real playstyles: 1. Roleplay an irl party and lose the first re-election, making your progress go down the drain. 2. Raise taxes, pay off ALL of national debt, fund education and healthcare. Good job, you just solved half of the problems a country has and you have a large surplus to solve the remaining problems. The game also isn't...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Democracy 3 scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/245470/democracy-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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