Democracy 3

Release Date: 2013-10-14

Developer: Positech Games

Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Price: 18.99

Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Lets 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 countryDemocracy 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 interfaceDespite 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 votersEach 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!).Read the reviews!http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/18/democracy-3-hands-on-losing-elections-with-land-mines-in-a-complex-politics-sim/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/10/07/greatest-britain-democracy-3-hands-on/http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/09/kill-your-starry-eyed-romanticism-in-real-time-with-democracy-3/http://www.jumptogamer.com/reviews/democracy-3-review/http://www.kernelmag.com/reviews/game-review/6167/democracy-3/http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2013/10/28/democracy-3-review-pc/http://tiger-gaming.org/democracy-3/http://www.bagofgames.com/2013/10/democracy-3-review/http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/games/pc/Democracy-3-Review-393388.shtmlhttp://www.n4gtv.com/threads/democracy-3-review.592/... and lots more...Mod SupportDemocracy 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.htmlModders 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...