Democracy 4
A downloadable game for Windows
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Built on a custom-built neural network designed to model the opinions, beliefs, thoughts and biases of thousands of virtual citizens, Democracy 4 is the state-of-the-art in political simulation games. A whole new vector-graphics engine gives the game a more adaptable, cleaner user interface, and the fourth in the series builds on the past while adding a host of new features such as media reports, coalition governments, emergency powers, three-party systems and a more sophisticated simulation that handles inflation, corruption and modern policy ideas such as quantitative easing, helicopter money, universal basic income and policies to cover current political topics such as police body cameras, transgender rights and tons more.
Democracy 4 is the ultimate sandbox for testing out your political ideas. We all think our politicians are useless and that we could do a better job ourselves, but is that really true? With one eye on the budget, one-eye on the polls, and somehow finding time to watch out for terrorist attacks at the same time, you will find that staying in power while changing society for the better is a tougher job than you ever imagined.
Would it really be a good idea to legalize all drugs? to give the police machineguns? to ban abortion? to invest heavily in green energy? would UBI really work? can you stay elected after cutting pensions in half to pay for your science budget? There is only one game that lets you find out!
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars (7 total ratings) |
Author | cliffski |
Genre | Strategy |
Tags | democracy-game, Economy, political-game, political-simulation, politics, politics-game, positech-games, Turn-based Strategy |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Links | Steam, Homepage, Blog |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $26.99 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Updated to build 1.65Aug 16, 2023
- Updated to build 1.62Mar 24, 2023
- Updated to build 1.61Feb 18, 2023
- Updated to build 1.60Jan 13, 2023
- Updated to build 1.59Nov 10, 2022
- Updated to build 1.58Oct 08, 2022
- Updated to build 1.57Sep 17, 2022
- Updated to build 1.56Sep 08, 2022
Comments
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Will democracy 4 ever come to mobile?
Any updates on where we’re at for possible full release?
still going to add Japan before that!
How about a policy for compulsory voting, in addition to it being set at the beginning of the game? The mechanics are already there.
Also a policy for voting age. Allowing 16 year olds to vote would effectively increase the size of the 'youth' electorate.
ive generally assumed that at a high level, the subsidies slider is effectively meaning grants.
Excellent :D
The game is still being balanced, and it might turn out that the liberal/socialist path is possibly a bit too easy, depending on which country you play.
Yup, end game will get better over time. We still have some situations and events that do not trigger enough yet which will hopefully provide more late game challenge.
I was thinking of adding south korea at some point :D At the moment all of the laffer curves are the same, but the public reaction to stuff is very varied based on their capitalist/socialist mix, so politically the situation should feel different in each country with the same policies.
surely its *possible*. Unpopualr, definitely but theoretically possible, even if it leads to vigilante mobs, rioting and losing an election
I almost absolutely love the game, however I literally cant play it as it is too easy. It seems no matter what I do on the hardest difficulty I just keep getting voted back in! I love the idea of the game, but it cant be good as there is no challenge. I am aware I am not the only one who thinks this and many people feel the same. Might I suggest a much higher difficulty option?
same! I did a run where I just appeased one single group, and I figured everyone else must have ran to the opposing party, but somehow I destroyed them at the polls :s was a bit of a letdown!
The trouble is we are not yet simulating the level of regulation :(