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Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
Developer Jujubee
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system! From the Steam store page
126 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
38
Rotten
46 positive · 75 negative
95% range 30–47%
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| Steam reviews | 46 | 75 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
112 of 307 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 126 · most liked firstI wanted to like this game as there are very few total simulators or this category and genre, however the game has some serious issues of which I can not support the game due to. The game is fundamentally broken for several reasons: 1. The developers clearly have no idea what political systems do what. Or even remotely how they operate. 2. The US is a Constitutional Republic. Not a Federal Presidential Parliament Republic (Or whatever). 3. The fact that you can only slot people in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gave it a go but couldn't really get into it, it's better than superpower 3 I guess. AI generated art is fine I guess but it was a bit weird declaring war, one old man shouting at his twin brother and waving his 4 fingered hand about.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game having mostly negative reviews is Beyond me. Is it buggy? Ye. Is it not polished? Ye. Is it in Early Access and is it being constantly developed, with devs being communicative even in the ♥♥♥♥ reviews? Yes, it is. It clearly needs some more work, there are a lot of systems, some have been given more time others less, but it's certainly not a bad game and i'd like to see it's potential when fully grown. If that was a Paradox game, already half of the content would be in DLCs...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game uses AI generated portraits extensively to the point where it's off-putting to watch. Also, the modern day Polish government is full of young adult politicians and consists of about 60% of women. The parties of government are totally generic. I understand the point, but the demographics of the the government and the ministries are that bad it's even funny to discover.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I keep doing this to myself, after purchasing the previous Realpolitiks games and being disappointed, I decided that the time was right for me to give it another go and try their new title on a huge sale. This has been a major disappointment. First of all, the game feels like a mobile game than an actual grand strategy game, the economy doesn't make any sense whatsoever, the politics are randomized and do not correlate to the real-life equivalents, regional unions almost no purpose in game,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Realpolitiks 3 Early Access joke : What are 37 billion Hindustanis doing in France ? They were fleeing the 45 trillion Mestizos living in North Korea, of course. Let it cook and maybe avoid it for now; as it stands it's barely functionnal and often makes no sense at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ONCE UNINSTALLED, GO TO LOCALLOW AND DELETE THE FOLDER! 14GB of save data was left on my SSD after I uninstalled it. Interesting and fun game but marred by technical issues to the point of me not being able to suggest it. The biggest being a 14GB folder of my saves. 14Gb of saves in 6.5hrs is just too much, and to have them stay on the PC after uninstalling is just NOT ok.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-Perfomance is shi...is bad -Armies struggle to capture cities to their small hitboxes -Political stability points mechanic sucks -UN aint active enough (i made African empire with high aggresive expansion and noone reacted) -Map looks cool but aint clean enough, colors are not distinct enough +can commit crimes against humanity +nice amount of diplomatic interactions +graphic is better than in 2nd game Advice : Wait until they fix optimilization
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I'm not sure how to feel about this game, on one hand I like geopol type games, on the other re-rolling 6 times in a row only to get black female leaders that are chauvinists and nationalists.. in the US, with consistent 80%+ Democrat representation in the Senate and 100% in the cabinet is a little.. off putting, I'd say hold off until they either add starting leader editing or at least a re-roll button at the start of the playthrough if they're dead set on random leader starts
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is clearly made by a leftist who has no idea how actual economics works. The whole system is unbalanced and does not reflect realistic causality or decision externalities. It would become tolerable if it had consul commands to manually adjust trajectories to match and create a more realistic simulation but it doesn't. I'm sure this review will get a lot of hate from socialists, but it is what it is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think it could be one of the best sim games, but there is absolutely 0 explenation to how this game works, than after learning how to play the game. Things just randomly change however they like, so that you have even less of an idea how to play. I spent about 10 hours researching how to play the game so just to be even more confused after 2 hours of playing because its doesnt even make sense. Anyways, its quite dissapointing. Small tip - a mix between this game and Power and Rev would be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is not good enough to be enjoyable doing war is a joke having to research diplomacy is a joke everything seems to limit the player and restrain him
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started playing as New Zealand and at the outset we're losing money. Ok, fine we can work on that. Start on a couple of research/projects but now we're losing more money and action points are in the negatives too. Realise bureaucracy is chewing through a hell of a lot of money so reduce bureaucracy but then realise bureaucracy is giving me action points. By reducing bureaucracy to minimum and taxes to maximum I can just make money but now action points are like -5200. But now I don't have any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The portrait system is one of the weakest aspects of the game and severely damages immersion. Even when selecting an Asian country, most politicians and ministers use Latin/European-looking portraits. This breaks regional consistency and makes the simulation feel careless. A geopolitical simulator should clearly separate portrait pools by region — Asian countries should have Asian leaders, not reused global assets. On top of that, many portraits do not resemble educated political elites or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Confusing mess, badly explained.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is good, but when we have played it for more than 10 hours, there are many freezing, especially when opening the minister tab, there will be freezing and crashes. Please fix this immediately.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has potenial but it's full of bugs and mechanics that don't work properly. Some stuff is also very poorly explained, if they even are explained. I'm a huge 4x and grand strat fan, so I want to like this game. But the game doesn't want to be liked in it's current state. The research trees are underwhelming. The economy is wierd. I tried to make a trade deal with a country, which requires you to have economic co-operation with the country you want to trade with. I did that successfully…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ambitious, but a mess otherwise. The documentation is so barebones as to be useless, systems are there without any explanations (where tf is slavery and how do i get rid of it?). bugs aplenty and things pop up without any explanation. People who like those kind of games like to see the feedback of their actions, even when negative, not a -1 stability popping out from nowhere without any explanation that completely destroy a long-running strategy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the most misunderstood political sim out there. It could be due to a lack of online info on how to play it successfully or just the fact of its complex and slower game play. In any case i highly recommend this gem of a game. The programmer put a lot of content into this game and it truly deserves more then its mixed reviews on steam. The key to understanding its mechanics and its great amount of content would be to follow the request tabs that come from countries, political parties and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make the country better? People Revolt Leave the country the same? People Revolt Make the country worst and of course people will revolt. I love the realpolitik and the second was just ok. At this point, I don't know what you are improving/or lack there of. Nothing seems to make sense in this one. even after a full year of being out. It's okay at first, but soon turns out to be a complete waste of time no matter what you do. Stick to the first one. It's the best you are going to get here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stopped playing 1 as there was the issue were resources hit a negative and would never recover after a set period, something that was never fixed. I really liked the rest of the game, the layout, combat, UI etc, really manageable. Having coming to 3 then, the series seems to have gone backwards massively. I feel very disconnected to what is going on, I constantly miss when I have finished a project etc due to the userface being so bad, and there being no real easy to see notifications like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Detailed Review: Amazing Game with Bugs and Performance Issues 🌟 First of all, I want to say that I love the concept of this game! 🎮 As a political strategy enthusiast, I think it has incredible potential. However, during my time playing, I encountered several issues that significantly affected the experience. I’d like to provide specific feedback to help the team improve the game. 🛠️ Bugs and Technical Issues: Action Points Issue: I was playing as Sweden 🇸🇪, and at the start of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so far so good a few minor issues that I hope will be ironed out with some patching. Runs smoothly on my somewhat ancient potato of a pc. But this is one of the better games i've played that's in early access. Some patches later, and I gotta retry a lot of things. But they have added a cheat system which is cool. I like when single player games leave it to the player on how they wish to play. <3 One thing I admittedly hate. Is that organic farming is a possible project for a technocratic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was looking for a replacement game for Civ 6 because I did not like the looks of Civ 7 and the concepts behind this game looked very interesting. The game had a lot of potential but the execution of the game is very complex with only the most basic explanations of the concepts. The developers seems to think that just telling the user what concepts are will tell the user how to play the game. For simple games that would be enough but this is an extremely complex game and that is not enough. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the initial tech of nations is not thought through very well. for some reason they're treating old technology like its some brand new invention. like the stock market. it's been around for a long damn while but developed nations don't start with it implemented. I didn't look that deeply into the tech trees but it seemed there is no future tech. everything there is old news. They simply nerfed developed nations by not giving them access to the tech that they developed. I suspect is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is unchanged from previous titles, and the economy mechanism is broken. A promising game whose development falls short of expectations
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright, so this is one I've had an issue with debating if it's a reccomend or not. It is very fun... when it works. First, you can rebuild the Roman Empire. Which by itself is a positive. There's different political systems you can embody, including the mid-century German system. Play without blocs, and you can invade Canada as America. The colonization is fun, but also not really intuitive when it comes to properly colonizing other planets (you have to scroll alllllll the way out on earth,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They released this game after being in early access for so long with so many bugs that make the game completely unplayable. all saves get corrupted after a few hours in so you have to restart (happens every game) there is so much performance issues, the map does a refresh every few seconds and it freezes the game everytime for a while even though I got more than enough PC specs for this game. crashes, lagging and essential game mechanics that doesnt work or is bugged out, the biggest one is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very janky and with this being the third game in the series, I don't hold high hopes that these issues will be properly resolved.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: I will probably continue to play it, but the game is a serious frustration fest. It feels unfinished. The discord server is basically abandoned so don't expect to find help for workarounds or understanding. I kind of wish I could get a refund, but 20 hours in is basically a no go for refunds. Like others, I *highly* recommend against buying this. I suggest Terra Invicta, which has some similar feel to this, if you don't mind an alien invasion. I've read that Rebel Inc may also have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game constantly crashes all the time for no reason. The longest the game might last is about a half an hour or so before just freezing and crashing. Also, political stability drops for no reason. Failure is built into the game regardless of what decisions you make. Really, it's not worth playing, and purchasing was a mistake on my part. I recommend it to no one. DO NOT buy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, let's not talk about the issue of selling the translation itself without adequate preparation. For some countries, such as China and India, the production team has too much prejudice and error about their laws and systems.A lot of content did not even appear in any published official documents, pure fabrication!If the production team wants to simulate modern or shadow government, please respect the reality.I sincerely hope that you will not go all out to make these semi-finished…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I waited one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HOUR of my life just TRYING to get some units on my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DIVISIONS. Seriously, how the ♥♥♥♥ did this bumbass game pass the prototype stage? Tips? Half of the games features ain't in there and the few that are are so outdated they make american highway infastructure look modern. I don't just want my money back, i want my seventy three minuets back as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like this game has potential and could be good in the future. However right now it is an absolute buggy mess. Broken mechanics, and not fully implemented others. Will edit in the future if things improve.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heavily disbalanced game with a worship to western world (Italy has a stronger army than China, Russia has Fascist dominant party in parliament, etc). I could easily predict on the 1st hour of gameplay - the game was made by Polish genius Studio :)) I was right...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game. It's nice to finally have something that's set modern day as I grew tired of a lot of paradox games that don't focus on something like this. The closest being the modern day mod for HOI4. There are a couple of current issues which I know for one of them is my computer. 1. There is no tutorial that is in depth enough for the amount of systems in this game. I actually enjoy learning this kind of stuff so it's not annoying or anything to me but I know it will be to a lot of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great i realize only now why people leave bad reviews on this game... I was actually having fun... only to now get "This save is corrupted" the next day... like what? nothing changed!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had high hopes for this game, but it fell short in several areas. The interface is poorly designed, cluttered, and confusing; finding information requires too many clicks, and modifiers often lack clarity. The game balance feels off, with resources that seem random and incoherent. Performance is another letdown – even on an i7-12700k, the game struggles with frame drops and long load times, revealing major optimization issues. Overall, while the concept is promising, the current state of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea and concept of this game are great: Choose any nation and see if you can evolve to become a superpower exactly the way you see fit. The reality of the game however is that it really feels early access beta, and it's been in this state like forever. It lacks coherence, you can NOT choose exactly how you want to run your country as some choices exclude other or have undesirable effects. Leader artwork is generic and doesn't match the countries cultures. Migration options are a mess. It's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is fun when its not freezing and crashing which is the state u will spend most time in. in a 60min session i spend 40 mins waiting for the game to unfreeze. Needs major update to stop this from happening.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I purchased the game yesterdssy and spent now several hours with it to get a first impression. I only played the first part before and I can say that this is a lot more complex and has more opportunities which is a good thing. Unfortunately, the game has serious performance issues and is almost unplayable because of this. I don`t know how the producer wants to solve it (not sure if this is even possible). In the current status, I can`t recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even with the new update, this game remains clunky and buggy. The save system, whether autosave or manual, feels like a gamble every time—flip a coin and pray it doesn’t freeze the game. Despite hours of stock market research, you still can’t build one, which is frustrating. The head-of-state perks system is also flawed; even when you’re eligible to upgrade to the next perk, the game throws an error saying, “Must implement previous perk,” blocking any progress.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On one hand, it's the good old Realpolitiks, but on the other hand: it's much better than its predecessors! I can't wait to explore all the colonization options!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In practice, it’s almost unplayable—and the UI is one of the worst offenders.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very disappointed. the game was on the right path with RP2 with excellent UI imporvements, which they completely ditched in RP3 :( examples : Diplomacy map used to show in red/yellow/green tones ennemy/neutral/friendly countries. Ditched I could easily visualize my territorial claims and other countries' claims with that same map mode. Ditched Really nice, intuitive and fast radial menu (diplomacy/aggresive/spies...) radial menu when clicking on provinces/foreign countries...ditched Super…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fix your game. Save corrupts every time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is a lot of fun. Unfortunately it's very broken. I hope the hot fixes keep coming. For me, notification window is always getting stuck and enforcing war goals on multiple provinces always bugs out. As long as you don't plan on going to war, it's wonderful. Edit 11/11/24: Much much better now that I can go to war without a major bug. Haven't tried a large scale conflict yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has potential but it's a mess right now. I went from Democracy to elective monarchy to technocracy to fascism over a period of 6 month while playing Greece... Clearly their is some things they need to work on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Puerto Rico but including them as a full fledged country and not Palestine is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane. Also doesn't run on a $1200 laptop from 2025.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy as ****, Convoluted yet simplified, I have never seen UX this bad and i've seen plenty. I gave it a shot but not worth the few bucks i gave it on sale. Only good reason i could recommend this game is to make you appreciate other games a whole lot more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In playing as Russia and i cant even annex Georgia after i take the whole dang country among other things that make it unplayable. I liked your other two games better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First to start, I would love to love this game, but I just can't. It just doesn't work. Notifications broke after a while. Stock market broke after a while. There is really not that much to do, especially since the game has a scale of days. Think that the scale should be weeks or months, since nothing is really happening so even on the MAX speed you are just staring at the blank screen as days go by. The game also needs more explanation of mechanics, in-game wiki is there, but it doesn't have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was not particularly pleased with the game, the graphics were tightened, and the gameplay itself was complicated so much that at least after installing the game, I have to figure out what, where and where. I played for a few hours and deleted it. Left it purely for the collection.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →too restricitve, sometimes there are literally mo options to progress
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its not great... but I like it. Hopefully the devs do more work on it cos it actually does have potential to be a good geo-politics modern strategy game, and we sure do not have many to choose from.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game runs poorly, very poorly. on 5800x3d it stutters when zooming in/out. The UI is barely functional and not very informative. The in-game help when you click on question marks is basically just stating what the UI element is without explaining how it interacts. Most of the tech tree is without real explanations how it all works together. The randomiser that is supposed to be giving various countries random starts doesn't actually seem to do so fully, some countries seem locked into…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very poorly designed UI. I have no idea when things happen, for some reason the United States is ran by a white woman, all my generals and admirals are communists, research is awful to go through, the US also doesn't start with access to the stock market, etc etc. I can't be bothered to spend more time than 0.4 hours. The UI is the biggest turn off out of everything. Can't tell when research finishes, can't tell when events finish unless I'm staring at it, it's just.. not good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a solid base for a sandbox political simulator. Once the player stops expecting impossible from this smaller production and if they can pull off fixing the bugs...This will be a solid hours of fun. Like the Politician generator idea and the many varied political regimes. Clearly not something that aims for realism but I will gladly return to it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, technically this seems to be an improvement over Realpolitiks 2, which to this day remains the most playable of the current generation of geopolitical games. However, I feel like the always satirical tone of the Realpolitiks games no longer really fits the amount of detail. When you're going deep into government and constitutional setups like this iteration does, having weird choices like Germany with "Polyandry" being its marriage system and "No Health Care", just to name one example,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned game, don't waste ur money.
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