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Ochsentour
A German Political Career Simulator
In Germany, the party picks its candidates before the voters ever see them. Start in a local branch and work your way up to the chancellery.
- Genre
- Political simulation
- Status
- In development
- Platform
- PC · Steam (planned)
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- German and English (planned)
A political simulator with two fronts
Ochsentour is the German word for the long climb from party member to the top, one committee at a time. You fight on two fronts. Inside the party, you need wings, delegates and a good list position. Outside, you need voters, headlines and polls. What helps you on one front often costs you on the other.
For players of Suzerain, Democracy 4 and The Political Process who want to start at the very bottom of a real political system.
How a career works
Build your politician
Pick a job, a hometown, clubs and personality traits. Your political positions come from a questionnaire with concrete statements.
Win the party first
Run for the local board, gather favours and fight for a list position at the nomination meeting. Party members remember who helped them and who didn't.
Then win the voters
Eight voter milieus react to twelve policy fields. Spend your campaign budget on posters, flyers and door-to-door teams, and make promises you'll be measured against.
Sweat through election night
Results come in district by district, and afterwards the game tells you the three main reasons why it was or wasn't enough.
Satire for every party
Seven fictional parties, all playable and modelled fairly. The jokes hit every party alike: fax machines, villages without mobile signal, building projects that never finish.
You don't need to know German politics
Germany is the setting, explained as you go. A few German terms stay German, like Ortsverband (local party branch) or Kumulieren (stacking up to three votes on one candidate), and the game explains each one the first time it shows up.
Where it starts
The first playable stage is local politics: one municipality, the annual general meeting of your branch and the town council election. State parliament, the Bundestag and the chancellery follow in later stages.
Questions
Another question? Write to info@snakedocgames.com
Is Ochsentour in English?
Yes. Ochsentour is planned in German and English from the start. Jokes are written for each language, not translated.
Are the parties real?
No. The parties and people are fictional but follow the real political spectrum. Every party is playable.
Is it on Steam?
Ochsentour is planned for Steam on PC. There's no store page yet. Subscribe below and you'll be the first to know.
Can I play it now?
Not yet. Ochsentour is in development.
Does it have microtransactions?
No. One-time purchase, no microtransactions, no timers.
Follow Ochsentour
Development updates and an email when Ochsentour can be wishlisted on Steam.
