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Democracy 3: Africa

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Democracy 3: Africa
Democracy 3: Africa cover
Developers
Positech Games
Release dates
Windows April 12, 2016
macOS (OS X) April 12, 2016
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Themes Africa
Series Democracy
Democracy 3: Africa on HowLongToBeat
Democracy 3: Africa on IGDB
Democracy 3: Africa on MobyGames
Democracy 3: Africa on Wikipedia
Democracy
Democracy 2005
Democracy 2 2007
Democracy 3 2013
Democracy 3: Africa 2016
Democracy 4 2022

Key points

Democracy 3: Africa is a standalone release, Democracy 3 is not required.
DLC from Democracy 3 works with Democracy 3: Africa.[1]

General information

Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Social Engineering
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Extremism
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Clones and Drones
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Electioneering
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\democracy3africa\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/427470/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\democracy3africa\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/427470/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Automatically flips from normal windowed on native resolution.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, music and master.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
DLC content is currently only available in English.

Other information

Mods

Democracy 3: Africa supports modding capabilites by using .csv files to store gameplay data.
Check out the official modding guide if you'd like to mod the game.
Mods are found at Positech modding forum or Steam Workshop.

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
OpenGL 2
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound, irrKlang

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/427470/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (427470) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. positech.co.uk - last accessed on 26 May 2023