Social Democracy: An Alternate History
Play as the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, and try to stop the NSDAP from taking power. Guide the party through elections and parliamentary politics. Deal with the Great Depression and the spiraling political violence that characterized the late "Weimar Republic".
This is a quality-based narrative game using the DendryNexus engine, which is in turn based on StoryNexus, the engine originally designed for Fallen London.
Originally made for Spring Thing 2024.
Unofficial subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/RedAutumnSPD/
Cover image copyright
This is a collage of 4 images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13624,_Berlin,_Versammlung_der_Republikaner.jpg. CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arbeiterbew.jpg. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eiserne_Front_Symbol.svg. CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-Blitz-0083.jpg Public DomainContent Warnings
References to antisemitism, nazism, period-typical racism, misogyny, and homophobia, obsolete terms for gender/sexual minorities.Download
Development log
- v1.2.1 - March on Berlin changes, Understanding the Enemy39 days ago
- v1.2 - Austrian Civil War, Education and Science, Economic Growth50 days ago
- v1.1.3 - Bugfixing87 days ago
- v1.1.2 - Bugfixes91 days ago
- v1.1.1 - Death of Hindenburg bugfixes, more achievements92 days ago
- v1.1 - The Death of Hindenburg93 days ago
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
How do you get Einstein as president? i reformed the presidency, funded the Kaiser Wilhelm science thingy, funded the two other science choices and had 63% republic support. what am i missing??
dw i got it gang it was the curriculum
How do you get Marie Juchacz as president?
You must give women all their rights (both in the workplace and in their homes) to run Marie Juchacz as president.
Before or after Hindenburg?
After Hindenburg's death in 1934.
With Abortion ?
It's not necessary.
Gay
It's not funny
How do you form the European Union?
You have to successfully negotiate the remaining Versailles obligations for starters.
Then you need to have good enough relations with both the east and west. after that, you can take the decision and eventually form the EU.
It can help in the Austrian parliament crisis if you manage to form it quick enough.
You need the foreign ministry for this, obviously.
I know that, but it never works, no matter how many times we negotiate the form.
It takes 3 negotiates for it to form
Make sure you do everything to get close to Europe; you can expose rearmament plans, drop the case for the Weltbuehne trial, get closer to both West and East until you can negotiate three times for creating a European Union. I assume getting closer to the British and French centre-left parties helps too!
The reverse is also true -- do not annoy Europeans by growing the military, forming a customs union with Austria etc.
How do i get Einstein as president?
You've got to increase funding for basic scientific research around 3 or 4 times, reduce presidental powers, and then after hindenburg, you'll get an option to run him.
I tried an anti-bourgeoisie run, denying any borgeoisie coalition or deals and always promoting social economic views and policies, while also promoting the WTB-Plan.
I feel like I found an oversight when the game told me that campaigning against the governments bourgeoisie acts is ineffective, since we are associated with the government that passed these bourgeoisie laws.
Surprised me because the game seems so attentive and accurate otherwise
Same problem.
Where can i download mods for this game ?
Two tiny suggestions - would it be possible to have economic growth added to a graph? Also going into coalition with the SAPD seems like it should be possible, if the numbers are there. Insanely excited for Petrograd! Thank you
It is possible, if you forming united-left, or popular front, or Weimar coalition
I know; I meant if SDP and SAPD combined is over 50%, I'd rather not have to worry about a coalition with either the KPD or Zentrum. Something tells me the SAPD would make very docile coalition partners
I could add that for the ministries you don't own, there's a special card that allows you to influence the SAPD into carrying out the policies you want to carry out at the price of 1-2 party resources.
Plus, if you have influenced the SAPD enough, you could integrate them back into the SPD.
how can I influence them
Possible bug: School boards increase old_middle instead of old_middle_spd, in the code at least, have not actually tested this.
Bug report: Cannot get any economic cards despite picking the economic ministry, and the game tells me that I do not have the necessary ministries when I try to get it through an advisor
If you are saying that about card that used to form worker council then you need economy+labour ministery
Oh, is that how you get it? Strange, I strictly remember only needing economy before.. But guess I was wrong
The lack of hand size (3 for medium) , the random cards along with one action every month makes the game difficult surviving as the SPD. I believe in making the shuffle leadership card as an advisor play allowing the player more flexibility while also making thematic sense in what you playing as
Another thing that would help in giving more flexibility and balance would be the ability to permanently remove a card from the deck thus preventing card clog. this can be balanced by one limiting the amount of cards that can be removed and/ or by costing one party resources . There is also needs to be
Just play the game on easy silly
I saw the feature on easy. It is not really needed on easy with four cards slot but is much needed on normal which is the in between difficulty of easy and hard. It is understandably for it to be not there in hard and historical difficulty. The shuffle advisor card as an advisor feature needed on medium in term of balance
How can you get Einstein as president
1. Reduce power of president
2. Fund basic science couple of times
Does that function just before or after the civil war too
? Without Civil war
POST SCARCITY COMMUNISM ACHIEVED!
on Redux Sandbox mod, no cheats except disable end
+100% unemployment????
I wish that we could continue as the SED in Redux
i can’t beat the game😔
I've never seen the "Understanding the Enemy event", how does it pop up?
The KPD wont form a government by themselves, they need the SPD for some god damn reason
How you download mod i can't able to find it. Can you plz tell me how I get this i play in android.
go to options, go to mods, copy link of your desired mod and paste into the browser or the slot given in the mods panel
The Bavarians don't know what's best for them.
no offense to the spd but i think they've got some room for improvement here
How do you run this from a download?
Just curious: How do you get Hitler deported?
You must get the intirior ministry i forgot how to write it then increase the loyalty then investigate among the far right then you can deport hitler but they will resist
You also need to reform judiciary. Loyal purrsian police and atleast low millitiancy of rechibanner.
can you make reichsbanner militancy high? I managed to make it medium once
Yes I managed them to high by using advisor.
how to make Willi Münzenberg president?
I’m very late. But you need to get the Conciliators in charge of the KPD. How to do this:
Embed a spy in the Comintern by July 1928
Use Paul Levi’s “Cooperation with the KPD” action by July 1928
Then, the Wittorf Affair will trigger in August 1928. Pick the third option to keep the information secret.
Make sure you took the Foreign Ministry in the May 1928 election. Once you draw that card, pick the Soviet option. Give them aid without conditions (not the Reichswehr one) then pick the option that says something about “Do the Soviets know about the Wittorf Affair? Do they know that we know?” Once you do that, the Soviets won’t defend Thalmann.
Sometime in the summer of 1929 (I believe August, but it might be July) the KPD Conference will trigger. As long as the Left faction is stronger than the Reformist faction within the SPD (you can do this through which rally option you pick, or party organizations, or questions of ideology, or advisors), there will be an option for the Conciliators to replace Thalmann. Pick that option.
In 1932, make sure Hindenburg gets reelected (just endorse him, ensure the Nazis haven’t surged. I like to do this via WTB.)
Then in 1934, when Hindenburg dies, the KPD will contemplate running Munzenberg. If you have adequate relations with the KPD (I believe they need to be warm or higher), and the Left faction is still stronger than the Reformist faction, you can endorse Munzenberg. Make sure SPD + KPD support is 45%-50%, because all the other candidates (except maybe Gessler?) will start consolidating around someone to stop Munzenberg.
Hope this helps!
ALL MUST HAIL THE SPD REGIME!
Bavarian nationalism cannot be contained they always have 3%
The Bavarians don't know what's best for them.
How you get this?
I just used the Sandbox mode, raised SPD support enough that all other parties get less than 5% popularity and passed a constitutional reform.
how to use the sandbox mode?(I am playing on iPhone)
check it on the mods section
I play on Android did this work?
The devs should make budget grow faster because after I adopt the WPT I remain in budget debt for the rest of the run. I even think that the advisors time should be reduced to 4 months because I just use it to have resources and I can’t do nothing else.
PS amazing game
To be honest, this game is well done, but can the author make a Chinese version?老实说，这款游戏做得不错，但作者能出个中文版吗？
As a Chinese, I can't understand it a little作为一个中国人，我一点儿也不明白。
其实可以玩网页版再加个浏览器的翻译插件()
I announce a new pro-worker economic policy -> bourgeois panic about the economy -> the policy is implemented -> economy reaches record improvements -> I announce a new pro-worker economic policy -> repeat
9.5/10 game too realistic
How do i get the event for understanding the enemy (NDSAP) somehow? Cuz it seems possible looking at the update log.
The party political relationship tab makes it seem like it is theoretically possible to have the NSDAP not be hostile to you. Is it? It would be funny to have a game over as you enter in coalition with Hitler.
KPD coup instantly as the Social Fascists show their true colors
KPD is the red fascist Stalinist party representing a failed, totalitarian communist ideology
it’s set to never change from hostile, same for the DNVP.
You should make a Soviet version of this just saying 😌
In the new devlog:
"The next Social Democracy game will be Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917, and will revolve around the various left-wing parties between the February and October Revolutions."
I think they mean you play as the KPD
More likely the Russian mensheviks :/
My personal fav game on this entire site
Woow. Really nice simulator. I am "hopefully" learning a lot of historical stuff. Crazy difficult dou, took me like 5 games to even form the peoples party and then a few more to win a peacefull victory. Crazy. And well done ˘w˘
Idk if i just have a skill issue but the game needs a baby mode its too hard for me ;-;
edit: I beat the game now
It's always hard on the first playthrough but if you practice a few times you can win on normal mode pretty consistently
I love this game. It would be nice to see content after death of Hinderburg🙂
There is a mod which does so, here: https://cuttlecraft.github.io/social_democracy_redux/
autumn should create more games like this but with different ideologies
I hope she makes a Nazi or Moscow version, hahahahehe.
Proud to say that I've been here since the 6th day of this game
I kinda wish the game didn't end so soon, I managed to stay in power, but just barely, it would be interesting to see if I would be able to tackle the Great Depression without loosing support or if Hitler would get elected afterall, alebeit a bit later than he did in reality.
Maybe an infinite mode with no content but a frame will be good.
Does anyone know how to create the Popular Front? I have not been able to get that ever
seems very difficult yeah
what’s the KPD candidate apart from T and M?
Bug: You can change the constitution even if you rejected neorevisionism.
long time i havent play this game and nice to see SO MUCH changes here. i think one thing is still missing is the foreign policy indicator, as in an indicator of friendliness towards usa, western europe, eastern europe, and the ussr, with foreign policy becoming a more central element to the game i think this indicator is needed