Additionally, most policies either generate a cost or income, which works into the government’s quarterly budget. Cabinet members have certain voter group affinities that affect their loyalty – essentially, if the voters they care about are happy, so are they – and ever-growing levels of experience that cut the political costs of policy implementation. Policies are bought with a resource called “political capital” which is generated by your cabinet members each turn, depending on how loyal they are to you. They affect (and to a limited extent are affected by) “Statistics” such as GDP and environmental quality, and “Situations” such as cybercrime waves and asthma epidemics, which in turn affect each other in an intricate web of feedback loops. They can cost or generate money, and will generally sway political opinion one way or the other. The sole method of interaction is setting policies, which affect your country’s economy, the environment, foreign relations, and a multitude of other factors. Like its predecessors, Democracy 3 is a very focused game. Unfortunately, be it due to the limitations of independent development or merely unambitious design, Democracy 3 doesn’t live up to its potential.
With all its infighting, backstabbing, scheming and pandering, the world of democratic politics seems tailor-made to be turned into a complex simulation.
With the US government shutdown fresh in our memories and tensions between right and left higher than they’ve ever been, there was potential for Democracy 3 to be a stunningly relevant and poignant game.
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