SuperPower 3
Developer GolemLabs
SuperPower 3 is a modern geopolitical sim in a planet Earth setup. Rule the world or challenge your knowledge about demography, economics, military strategy, as well as political issues across the globe. Compete with or against other players, or just try to do better than the real-life politicians. From the Steam store page
184 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
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31 positive · 152 negative
95% range 12–23%
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| Steam reviews | 31 | 152 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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60 of 184 · most liked firstit has been abandoned, no more updates and lost support
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →basically a scam
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesn't work. Too many bugs make it impossible to complete missions. I waited 15 years for this game, super disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The devs abandoned everything good about SP2, sold this, then moved to bahamas with all the money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Months after a broken game was released, it's still broken, steam should remove this from the library. Do not buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game killed the Superpower legacy, I've played Superpower 2 for over a decade and loved it but this game is just extremely buggy and lacking features and the simplicity of SP2. I will keep the game to see if it's improved in the future but as of now 0/5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When you release a game, I assume that it's complete at least 80% and then devs keep going and try to increase completion percent by patches and updates. This $h!t is not even 0.00001% ready. a kid from high-school could make a better project. DON'T BUY IT.. JUST, DON'T EVEN THINK TO BUY IT.. no matter how bad decisions you've made in the past, buy this game is a fatal mistake.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a disgrace to the superpower franchise. They killed it ...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UPDATE 1: Just a update to this review but THQ and Golemlabs have killed support for the game do not buy this game now its a dead game Original Review :To anyone who was a SuperPowers2 fan do not buy this game. I purchased the game because I am a huge fan of the series and nothing ever scratched the itch like SuperPowers2 did for me but this game is unplayable. Constant crashes or disconnects from the server, game breaking bugs with the economy, basic things such as sliders not working…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was a waste of money. The on;y reason I didn't request a refund was because i hoped it would get better. Instead they abandoned it. Don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was sold on being finished and complete; It is now an Open Beta Trials to make the game better. I did not buy an Open Beta game; i bought a game that was suppose to be finished and complete. I tried getting a refund after 10 hours but was told No. I will say DO NOT buy this game; its is now in Open beta and not finished. The dev's were updating the game with VERY minor details every week at first but now its moved to Open Beta, The future of this game is VERY VERY bleak. Go play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of this review SuperPower 3 is 34% OFF, save 100% of this game's price by not buying the game. I purchased this game the day it came out, and i was quite disappointed. I did not get a refund because i was hoping this game would have been patched enough to be playable, and a few months after release it was abandoned instead. It wasn't just review bombed either... it was review nuked into oblivion on day one, even most of the "positive" reviews are sarcastic. For what few people might still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have been a fan since sp1. I prayed they would get it right this time. This is a huge step backwards, probably killed the franchise. I don't think they understand why this game was popular. Fundamentally they don't get it, they couldn't possibly because they have systematically removed all that was good with every iteration of the game. They took the aircraft carrier concept from sp2 and applied it to the entire game. It's 4 screens of funding levels on a recreated Google earth. It's not a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The developer has abandoned the game, and it's not even in a playable state
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is complety unfinished. I wanted to love it, but there are so many things missing and gameplay is just.. a flat experience, there is no depth. In SP2 you had a lot of info and choices to micromanage your country. In SP3 you have 8-10 sliders on your budget screen and 4 options of diplomacy with each country. That's about it. You still have a bit of military R&D, but that portion is tiny. This needs a complete rethink from the developers side. I was expecting even more depth and a lot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hello dev, It's been 5 days since chaos why is there still no news. when update release? when new patch? I'll buy the game again when it's fixed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You will not get the same Joy you got from the first 2. This work is lazy and nothing like the smooth and educated first 2. I dont think the developers took the time to play the first 2.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very buggy and pretty much unplayable. The main publisher pulled support and no further updates from the developers have been done in over six months--by that I mean no update/roadmap posts and no patch releases. I'm an avid fan of the original Superpower and Superpower 2, but this game has been a huge let down in the franchise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can't even play singleplayer. Why is this still on the storefront? You can create a character, then proceed to not be able to use it in the game because there is no game. It's a main menu->character creator->freeze. It freezes indefinitely because the servers do not exist. It could be at least a game if the servers were still up, but it's not. As of right now it is just a world leader character creator with a dead end.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →super power 2 was much better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please do not buy. Clunky at every level. Since I want to be a least a little bit constructive I'll concentrate on one part of this mess of a game. Military. 1. unit icon - click on icon, 50/50 chance there is an actual unit there. 2. have to move EVERY SINGLE unit. So if you have 300 tank units that consist of anything from 4 to 4000 individual tanks then you have to move EVERY SINGLE UNIT. 3. Selling military equipment. No clue how this works, your roster is still filled with the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Longtime SuperPower 2 fan here. I held off writing a review because I was hoping that development of this game would resume, it has not and I don't think it will anymore. I waited a decade and more for it. Do not buy this game. It barely runs and when it does it will inevitably break. It is outrageous that it continues to be sold. I'd be surprised if lawsuits haven't been filed against both the developer and publisher for selling this broken product. While it continues to be; puts a massive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THQ Nordic should be ashamed of themselves. Allowing the release of this game in such state and not providing ANY kind of support to address the ton of issues other players have spoke about - its worse than what EA does. Sad that the legacy of Superpower 2 is overshadowed by the ♥♥♥♥♥♥, unplayable sequel.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best Geopolitical games out there. However, as the reviews suggests, this game is incomplete, bugged, and pretty much in its early Alpha stages. I personally do not understand the thinking process for the devs of this game for releasing it as a full game while it struggles so much
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →During a Single Player game, i got "server disconnected" I lost all the progress. Is that a joke ? That is unacceptable. Game Industry need a nuclear bomb to eradicate this kind of Studios. They made Superpower 2 (2004) and 30% of TheGuild3 before abandoning in 2018 the game. Now, they publish this SP3 joke. for 29.99. They chose FRIDAY has a release date and decided to NOT WORK during the weekend......LOL 4 days after no news no patch from the studio........on their internet page they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Essentially ended up being a scam. Devs and publisher promised a lot and the result was a buggy and completely unfinished mess. Then proceeded to just abandon the game after almost no updates after all the hype for it. My only regret is that I really tried to give the game a chance, which put me over the 2 hour refund limit. No reason to buy this at this point, it was completely abandoned after almost no updates. It’s around an early alpha level of development in its current state. Do not waste…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a fan of the first first game I am ashamed that I had faith they would fix this game after launch. This game should be mass refunded and removed from steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With what could have been a very excellent game, is an utter failure. I've tried multiple different trouble shooting attempts in order to make this game playable, but it cannot be done. I couldn't even imagine trying to play this game on a regular PC, because on this high performance one I have, this should be a cake walk. The game forces you to use a laggy off-site server, making it unplayable offline, which would probably be the fix, as I'm on 1.2G internet and their server cannot keep up.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All you need to know is that this game is incomplete. Do not buy now, also leave a really bad review so the developers know that releasing a game that is not even close to be fully complete is disrespectful and should never be done.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no doubt that they will fix this game up over time but when you release a game... it should in fact, be a game. The current state of this game is not even pre-alpha, its the equivalent of downloading a new project on Unity. Don't buy this game yet! keep watching the reviews and wait for it to be fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage game. Superpower 2 is better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am really heartbroken as much as when i watched Matrix 4....So the game is that bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review was written 09.10.22 I was given this game for free. The retail price as Im writing this review is about 30€ with a 10% sale making it about 27€. Before anything else I want to point out that this game only has 1 (fairly slow) speed setting. Meaning this turns out to be a fairly slow game to play. I want to start with the things I really liked about this game. Sadly there is not too much to like. Its a very flavourless game, with fairly little content and a fair few bugs and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really loved the second superpower and even with the bad reviews wanted to try the 3rd. NOT Worth it, when they say runs bad THEY MEAN IT. your p[opulation continuously gets more and more unemplyed, you can invest billions and trillions into economy and it wont change, like its just a flawed unfinished part of the game, soldiers and battles make no sense and you randomly get messages about iceland annexing ireland or provinces being taken over or your territories being annexed but its just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great OK Sequel for an Great OK Franchise Let me just preface this review by saying I have only played the Superpower series from 2010 onward, specifically Superpower 2 between 2010-2013. I used to host a roleplay server that was usually called "Will's RP Server". I'll start out by recalling problems I had with Superpower 2, that game was an imperfect mess, it had a lot of bugs and I don't recall a single patch being released until it was brought to Steam in 2014 or whenever that was.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty disappointed after waiting for so many years. Why would anyone publish a game at this state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nuked france and the game crashed. 2/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage game. Keeps crashing, missing features, many bugs. Steam refuses to refund the game despite multiple attempts. AVOID!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of potential of making up to SP2, unfortunately the developers have neglected the game by not updating it in nearly a year. Its sad to see the potential of SP3 be thrown away.. Do not buy, inactive developers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game resources are spent on pointless and aesthetic aspects of the game like 40+ avatar's feature customization, a new combat square that is equivalent to the old dust ball from an interaction perspective, and beautiful shadowing over the cute little cities. Even if the combat square did not glitch out units and become stuck for the rest of the game the combat square would still be a downgrade from the superpower II's dust ball since it can entrap more than just the region the battle is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like Super Power 2 but , and that is a BIG BUT . The developers forgot to finish the game . This should of never gotten released and should never of been called part 3 of anything . This is more like hey lets make a part 3 of our old game and forget to put 95% of the crap into it . Oh and while we are at it lets keep most of the easy and must needed game features out of it . I really think this has to be one of the worse games I have ever purchased on Steam and one of the worse…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible sh*t game. Had potential. Dev team abandoned it. Just buy ICBM.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't see them "fixing" this mess. How TF are you gonna force a Superpower to build ONE single order at a time? Who OK'd that? You can literally only build 10k infantry at a time in a single order. The UI is worse than SP2 in everyway. I do not feel sorry for Golemlabs one bit. This will crush them, especially after Guild 3. This should have been a $10 Early Access title if they really needed revenue. Steam should honestly remove this crap from the store. There also isn't a single server or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank god, at least refund option is working properly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Superpower 1 was one of the first games i fell in love with. Superpower 2 expanded on that game and polished it up. -it had its share of bugs, but it ended up being a fantastic game. Superpower 3... it needs some serious patches. Here are the most problematic issues... 1. unresponsive military units... -unit counts incorrect at times -no "occupy territory" option (like in SP2) 2. can't increase the game speed (like in SP2) 3. why can't we make treaties with multiple…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your time or money. I played for about 4 hours before writing this. While playing I kept thinking that I just needed to play a bit longer to figure out how to do things. Part-way through the 4th hour I realised that in fact there was nothing left to learn. The game does not give you much to do. The best part is that my money was refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded Abandon ware. was hyped when it came out and it fell so flat that i'm embarrassed. Hoped for an upgrade Superpowers 2 and got some trash. Thank god i refunded when I did. Another game Franchise i liked killed by ♥♥♥♥ developers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started off bad, its getting better
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game severs are down unplayable even in single player servers are down do not buy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After played this game for 4 hours, my analisis is: This is bad game, no content, lot of bugs, too confusing, even a mobile phone has more content and is better than this game. DO NOT BUY IT, SCAM GAME.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is barely playable. The UI is unresponsive and there are bugs everywhere. The game is also overpriced for the currently avaiable content.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game. So bad. I even set my expectations to being glad if it was just Super Power 2 reskinned. I truly would have been okay with that. But no it somehow takes about 20 gb to install, for what? there is no content, the UI is broken, there's no way to improve your relations with other countries and if there is, there's no way of being able to tell. No international organizations like the UN or NATO. At least none that I could find. It took me almost 3 hours to figure out how…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my girlfriend bought this for me on my birthday, i was overwhelmingly excited to give her a whirl. What I was met with was the steamiest, smelliest pile of unfinished game I've ever stumbled upon. This series has a special place in my heart, this gift had an even more special place in my heart. Unfortunately the devs have abandoned the game, providing no further updates or content to the game. Just go buy SuperPower 2
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't...... Just don't, look for another game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate to be a copycat. I had so much hope for this game, I absolutely loved 2 and was always hoping for a 3. When I saw there was one coming I was super excited. I wish they never teased us with this. its almost 2 years since the last update, this game was release early people bought it, and now were stuck with copies of a game that is incomplete. how this game is still available to purchase incomplete and without and chance of it ever being completed is disappointing. If Im wrong Im…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Semi-finished product And there was no attempt to fix it No update
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SuperPower 2 was much better. No idea what they were thinking when they made 3. The game is slow, the UI is cheap. poorly done. very disappointed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am (was) a huge fan of Superpower 2 and actually purchased it multiple times because I found it so fun. My anticipation for this release was probably greater than others, so despite the warnings I went ahead a purchased....big mistake. The game is unplayable period. The graphics are poor at best. SP2's map could zoom in closer and was more detailed. The "military" aspects are a joke. Nothing works properly. I would have preferred just an updated version of SP2 then this dumpster…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded this game. The community tried to warn you THQ and Golem Labs not to release this in the state its in. The fact that you haven't even patched this thing yet is a terrible way to handle business. At least Dream Catcher back in the day allowed a working copy of the game to be released. Seems like a THQ rushed hunk of ♥♥♥♥. I suppose there are only so many words in the dictionary that can be used to describe how awful of shape this game is in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't play it, keeps disconnecting from the server. Sometimes before avatar creation and always after
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