Democracy 4

Positech Games · Jan 13, 2021

Rating pending

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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!

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Critic 7.3 (2 critics) · Gamer 8.4

Critic reviews

Noisy Pixel
Arthur Augustyn · Jan 18, 2022
6.0
Democracy 4 provides tools to track down the source of your problems, but sometimes the complexity of the mechanics makes it difficult to feel confident in your strategy.
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Game Watcher
Marcello Perricone · Oct 05, 2020
8.5
This is the franchise’s strength, but also its weakness – not every kind of player will have the patience and the mindset to parse through that much data and play the slow game to get policies across. Still, that is hardly the game’s fault, so if you are a fan of political strategy or just politics in general, you should definitely give Democracy 4 a very fair shot.
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