The Candidate

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The game

The Candidate is a political thriller with adult content. You take the role of a campaign coordinator, a novice in the political world after quitting his previous job due to a sexual scandal. Manage campaign decisions and deal with scandals that threaten the candidacy to achieve the ultimate goal: winning the election.

It won't be easy, everyone has a past to hide and there are forces in the shadows that will use any means to get their way. The role of the media, always hungry for impactful content, can be crucial. You can either use them or be a victim of their headlines.

And, surrounded by attractive women, you may have other things to worry about...

Features

• About 4 hours for a single playthrough.
• 75k + words.
• 5 endings.
• 4 datable girls.
  
• 5 unlockable side stories.
• Management system for the campaign, with events and polls.
• Turn based combat minigame.
• A soundtrack with jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop and rock themes.
• A lot of unlockable stuff (magazine covers, outfits, photos, galleries, etc.)
• A huge extras section to keep track of all your progress.
• Includes a pdf manual with in-depth explanations, guides and tips.

The girls

There are up to four girls with whom you can have some kind of relationship in the game (plus three others with unlockable stories in the extras section). Having a relationship with some of them can give you access to a certain ending, but the main endings (losing or winning the elections) don't depend on that. They may provide more information about some aspect of the plot or characters. Or not even that... Not all girls are equally relevant to the story. Sometimes it's just about having a little fun!

Credits

• Writting, 3D illustrations, design and coding: Mario Matalla
• Music: Somewhere Off Jazz Street, Boom Boom Beckett, Audiobinge, Mr Smith, Podington Bear, William Ross Chernoff's Nomads, Forget the Whale, Loyalty Freak Music, Jesse Spillane, Revolution Void, Ceb Theory, Jonah Dempcy, Eric Van der Westen, Phish Funk, Another Brick, Serge Quadrado, Crowander, United States Marine Band
• Typography: Oswald (Vernon Adams), Yeseva One (Jovanny Lemonad), Black Ops One (James Grieshaber), Nosifer (Typomondo), Shojumaru (Astigmatic), Piedra (Sudtipos)
• City Map: Procedural City Generator (Probable Train)
• Betatesting: disorder, Undead Maiden, Selzis, Chris Eman