Thanks! I am planning to write more "personal" games, including maybe something set in the Archivist setting...

Go full internationalist, persuade the Kadets to allow a Soviet government, sign a separate peace, and demobilize as quickly as possible while shifting industries and transport to civilian use :p

The game was written in DendryNexus github.com/aucchen/dend...

It kind of is the novelization of the game lol, since it was my main source while making the game.

There's a list of books in the game's credits; my favorite is German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism by Donna Harsch. It's about the SPD between 1928 and 1933. A more general overview is The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy by Hans Mommsen.

It's Social Democracy: An Alternate History (or one of its mods) red-autumn.itch.io/social-democ...

There is a nonzero chance I make the game for real next year...

btw don't take any of this too seriously... it's basically "Person who only knows about the Weimar Republic: Getting real Weimar Republic vibes from this"

The Democrats are basically the Weimar Coalition while the Republicans are the Harzburg Front (or the 1925 pro-Hindenburg coalition). There's no real equivalent of Zentrum but the closest might be the Democratic ethnic caucuses (ideologically diverse, represent historically oppressed groups).

Weimar parties as US political factions:
SPD - Congressional Progressive Caucus
DDP - New Democrats
DVP - Blue Dogs/Problem Solvers
DNVP - Republican Study Committee
NSDAP - Freedom Caucus
There is no KPD or BVP equivalent.

On the other hand, I think that even in a world where the KPD cooperated with the SPD, Hindenburg and the bourgeois parties would never include the KPD in government (even if the KPD just tolerated), and would also be less inclined to cooperate with the SPD, leading to the same problems as irl.

Tbh I don't really blame the SPD for distrusting the KPD. The KPD was effectively an agent of Moscow and there was bad blood from stuff like the Prussian Reichstag referendum of 1931 where the KPD joined with the NSDAP to try to depose the SPD-les Prussian government.

The SPD is also not blameless here. During both the Preußenschlag in 1932 and Hitler's takeover in 1933, the KPD asked the SPD to jointly resist via mass action, but the SPD refused, distrusting the KPD and considering any action premature.

Thanks! I am on bluesky, yes, though I'm not much of a poster.