Democracy 3
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 7,256
- Critics
- 70 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 32% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.5h
- To 100%
- 28.4h 4.4x the story
- Achievements
- 42
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 November 2014
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 55% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
78 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score 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, Democracy 4 ($29.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Sigma Theory: Global Cold War ($17.99, scores 36).
More about Democracy 3
4 of the 572 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (76% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pretty fun concept but it gets REALLY stale REALLY fast, it took me nearly a decade to come back and 100% it.
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Democracy 3 scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/245470/democracy-3Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.