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Vote For Me

A political idle game about building a campaign operation from nothing. Hire staff, manage scandals, lose elections, and spend your political captial on upgrades that make the next run faster. Climb 12 tiers of office from Dog Catcher to President. Freedonia needs a leader. You'll do.

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Ashenmare
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About the Game

You are running for Dog Catcher.

Nobody asked you to. Gerald is running too. Gerald has a truck and strong opinions about potholes. This is your competition. This is where it starts.

Vote For Me is a political idle game about the slow, grinding, occasionally humiliating machinery of democratic ambition. You will build a campaign operation from nothing by hiring staff, managing scandals, courting donors, and navigating the kind of local politics that makes national politics look dignified by comparison.

You will lose elections. Democracy is messy. Losing builds Political Capital. Political Capital buys upgrades. Upgrades make the next run faster, smarter, and marginally less embarrassing.

Climb 12 tiers of office. Dog Catcher. School Board. City Council. Mayor. State Rep. Senator. Governor. All the way up. Each office is a new information environment, a new opponent, and a new set of problems you are not entirely qualified to handle.

Build your operation. Hire staff. Manage their quirks. Unlock synergies between the right people in the right roles. Some combinations work better than anyone expected. Some do not. HR has been notified.

Survive the War Room. Before every election, make decisions with incomplete information. The more campaign intelligence you have, the more the War Room reveals. Flying blind is an option. It is not a good one.

Navigate the scandal system. Heat accumulates. Sources multiply. Staff occasionally take sabbaticals under circumstances that are technically voluntary. Manage your reputation or manage the fallout. Preferably both.

Prestige and run again. Your Political Capital carries over. Your institutional knowledge carries over. Gerald does not get easier. You just get better at dealing with Gerald.

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