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Democracy 4
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...
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
69 of the 88 reviews raise this.
“When I get mad at politics in the real world I play this game and fix my country's idiotic problems This game is not recommended for those of you who don't like looking at financial data or spreadsheets”
“Overall fairly good. There are bits and pieces that bother me about this game in terms of how they interpret specific policy-changes and how it impacts specific things. More because I disagree than anything. There's…”
25 of the 88 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“Unfortunately, I cannot recommend Democracy 4, at least not at full price. You could grab it in a sale for €5, though. The gameplay is simple: increase your GDP → the country keeps getting better. The gameplay loop ends…”
“Game finds reasons to bring your income down when its positive. Game finds reasons to not do this when its negitive. If you start a game with ZERO debt the game auto ajusts both income and exspense to be negitive by…”
“Should be awesome, but heavily punishes you for implementing policies the devs don't want you to. I was expecting this to be a neutral sandbox, but don't think it is, and I found it frustrating to play despite being…”
8 of the 88 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Why did I waste so much of my time on this game? You start off with 0% approval despite being elected, your ministers have completely random ideological leanings, do one wrong thing on the whole game spirals. Random…”
“Overall fairly good. There are bits and pieces that bother me about this game in terms of how they interpret specific policy-changes and how it impacts specific things. More because I disagree than anything. There's…”
“I find this game really good I just find it's really hard to get into and to actually commit to playing it for a very per Time But it's still really good though”
6 of the 88 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Unfortunately, I cannot recommend Democracy 4, at least not at full price. You could grab it in a sale for €5, though. The gameplay is simple: increase your GDP → the country keeps getting better. The gameplay loop ends…”
“Cashgrab game don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buy it there is no content inside.”
“You win the game and finish it too fast, it took me 3 hours to feel that i "finished" it and to lose interest.”
4 of the 88 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Unfortunately, I cannot recommend Democracy 4, at least not at full price. You could grab it in a sale for €5, though. The gameplay is simple: increase your GDP → the country keeps getting better. The gameplay loop ends…”
“Cashgrab game don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buy it there is no content inside.”
3 of the 88 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Very weird experience. At first, the mechanics feel quite overwhelming, complicated, and fancy, largely because of the UI. However, after several hours, it just gets obnoxiously repetitive, and you realize it's…”
“why the ♥♥♥♥ do you not have a 1920x1080 option for resolution and why does full desktop force it into fullscreen”
Counted across 88 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 81.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“I like spreadsheet sims, and I like global politics. Slam dunk.”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“Very well designed, large amount of replayability. Would like for international politics to be represented more and it would not hurt to split Liberals and Conservatives into Libertarians and Progressives for Liberals and Authoritarians and Traditionalists for Conservatives.…”
— a player, Steam review · 277 hrs played“I dont really get the purpose of this game. I played two nations. The felt the same and were both incredibly easy. On my first two runs i fixed the economy and scored 100% approval in one of the elections. 100%! In the US - banning weapons means nothing to the public. Making…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Updated to build 1.67
1) Increased US armed force week to reflect TRumps planned parade. 2) Updated US population stat 3) Changed US govt debt to reflect current figure 4) Introduced Import Tariffs for the USA to reflect r
Update to build 1.66
1) Increased the happiness threshold beyond which voters get complacent. 2) Reduced the maximum impact of complacency on voters. 3) Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas and Water Cannons now all reduce the likeli
Fixed bug where text overlapped on the policy screen for some screen resolutions
1) Fixed bug where text overlapped on the policy screen for some screen resolutions and policies.
Minor fixes
1) Fixed bug on low resolutions where the change indicators on new policy expected effects might overlap. 2) Fixed bug where occasionally you would see a one pixel line across the top or bottom of a w
Rebalanced Poland, Updated Debt levels, big performance overhaul
1) Plane crash event now only triggers when there is a state airline policy enabled. 2) Fixed minor cosmetic issue with the rendering of some policy icons after just being cancelled on the intel scree
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Political Sim · Politics · Management · Simulation · Economy · Political · Diplomacy · Grand Strategy · Choices Matter · Indie · Capitalism (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Arabic * |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Official site | https://www.positech.co.uk/democracy4/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7,8,10 Processor: intel i5 1.6GHZ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: intel HD3000 Storage: 800 MB available space Sound Card: any