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In the indie game category, Democracy 3 Africa launched in 2016 and was developed and self-published by positech-games. Its initial price was $16.99, and its Steam listing has 377 reviews with a mixed rating.
Overview
Democracy 3 Africa is a 2016 Indie game developed by Positech Games and published by Positech Games. On Steam it has gathered 377 player reviews to date. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $17. The pairing of developer Positech Games with publisher Positech Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Democracy 3 Africa can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
377
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
427470
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 42K
units (median: 30K)
≈ $176K to $410K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$17 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Democracy 3 Africa at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 copies, with a median around 30,000, derived from its 377 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $293K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Democracy 3 Africa sold?
- indielist estimates Democracy 3 Africa has sold between 18,096 and 42,224 units (median 30,160), derived from its 377 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Democracy 3 Africa?
- Democracy 3 Africa was developed by Positech Games and published by Positech Games.
- Who published Democracy 3 Africa?
- Democracy 3 Africa was published by Positech Games, developed by Positech Games. See Positech Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Democracy 3 Africa released?
- Democracy 3 Africa was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Democracy 3 Africa have on Steam?
- Democracy 3 Africa has 377 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Democracy 3 Africa can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Positech Games's other releases and Positech Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Democracy 3 Africa sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Democracy 3 Africa page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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