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A huge mountain of colourful file folders in a government hall, three clerks standing in front of it behind barrier tape.

File no. AB-1987/0001 · WVUZ GmbH presents

Aktenberg: German Bureaucracy Simulator “Aktenberg” = German for “mountain of files”

Somewhere in this mountain lies your application.

100,000 files. Real physics. One rubber stamp. Dig, read, check and file – solo or in co-op with up to 4 colleagues.

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Coming soon to SteamPC (Windows)English & German1–4 players

Case 01 · Statement of facts

Mr Krüger has been waiting since 1987.
Today is your first day.

In the basement of the town hall of Kleinkleckersdorf there is a mountain. Not an ordinary mountain – a mountain of files. Somewhere inside lies the one application a citizen has been waiting on for decades.

Your job: find it, check it, stamp it. Your tools: two hands, a pair of reading glasses and a rubber stamp. In first person you dig your way through the mountain – every folder can be grabbed, thrown, stacked and read. Slopes slide, avalanches roll.

Each case lists features: folder colour, department, year, coffee stain. Searching becomes deducing. Everything that isn’t the application gets filed properly, sold or put on display. Because: order must be maintained.

An affectionate satire of German bureaucracy. No violence, family friendly – and all offices, people and places are entirely fictional.

Form AB-1Block capitals please
Application for fun
  1. First-person view✗
  2. Mountain of 100,000 files with physics✗
  3. Find the one application✗
  4. Read, check, stamp✗
  5. File by department✗
  6. Co-op for up to 4 players✗
Place, date:
Kleinkleckersdorf, todaysigned: you
100,000files in the basement archive alone
11cases
6offices
56collectibles
1–4players in co-op
Case 02 · Job description

Your official duties

First-person view: two hands reaching into the mountain of files, folders whirling through the air.§ 1

Physics-based digging

A mountain of 100,000 files – and every single one flies. Dig too deep and the slope gives way. Barrier tape helps only so much.

A file sheet with file number, department, folder colour and a red APPROVED stamp.§ 2

Read, check, stamp

File number, year, department, coffee stain: does it all match the case? Then APPROVED. Beware of decoy files with tiny mistakes.

A colourful filing tower collapses in a filing tray.§ 3

The filing tower

Filing by department earns money. Stacking higher earns more – until the tower topples and the pot is gone. Cash in early or push your luck?

A LEGENDARY find card: the Original Form Template.§ 4

Finds & Kramer

Paper clips, a garden gnome, a love letter from 1975, the Original Form Template: 56 collectibles. Trader Kramer buys almost anything – depending on his mood.

A furnished office with a red carpet, a meeting table, a sofa and plants.§ 5

Your own office

Rubber plant, aquarium, wingback chair: furnish your office, fill the collection cabinets and climb the ranks. New tools are waiting at procurement.

A festively decorated registry office with a flower arch in front of a mountain of files.§ 6

11 cases, 6 offices

From the basement archive to the ministry – every office with its own look, its own people and its own case types. Then the endless mode takes over.

Case 03 · Official channels

The chain of command is long.

Eleven cases, six offices, one finale. Every promotion means a bigger mountain.

  1. Basement Archive100,000 files · your first day
  2. Building Office500,000 files
  3. Tax Office1 million files
  4. Registry Office2 million files
  5. Central Filing Annex Hintertupfingen5 million files
  6. Ministry of Digitali­sation5 million files · finale

Then: endless mode

New cases every week, a daily “Urgent!” file, optional special rules and a weekly leaderboard. Closing time is when you say so.

Case 04 · Evidence

Exhibits 1 to 12

Real in-game images (work in progress, English interface). Click to enlarge – arrow keys to browse, Esc to close.

  • First-person view with both hands visible: looking between tall archive shelves at a huge mountain of files.
  • First-person view: two hands reaching into a mountain of files, folders whirling through the air.
  • First-person view: the left hand holds a green routing folder, the right a wooden stamp.
  • First-person view with hands: three co-op players with name tags Sabine, Kalle and Jule digging at a mountain of files.
  • First-person view: a hand holds a blue file in front of filing trays with towers of files and boards showing target, pot and collapse risk.
  • First-person view: a hand holds an orange detector with a little bookworm in front of a mountain of files.
  • A filing tower collapses, with a message that the pot is gone.
  • LEGENDARY find card showing the Original Form Template in front of a mountain of files.
  • Office with red carpet, meeting table, chairs, sofa and plants.
  • First-person view: registry office with red carpet, flower arch and garlands in front of a mountain of files.
  • First-person view: people waiting behind barriers in front of a mountain of files, display boards above.
  • First-person view: an enormous mountain of files under a wood-panelled ceiling at the Ministry.
Case 05 · Moving pictures

The trailer

Several players with name tags digging through a mountain of files together.
Case 06 · Co-signature

A burden shared is half a file.

1234

Up to four players, online or via LAN. Drop in at any time – latecomers still get their induction.

  • Clues are shared, and some files need a second signature.
  • Toss and catch files, carry file crates together.
  • Assign roles on the duty roster – or “stamp” your colleagues with the stamp cannon.
  • Emotes for every mood between “closing time” and “found it!”.

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Case 07 · Public relations

Press & content creators

Fact sheet
TitleAktenberg: German Bureaucracy Simulator
Developer & publisherWVUZ GmbH
GenreSimulation, co-op, satire (first person)
PlatformPC (Windows) via Steam
Steam Deck / Linux: planned
ReleaseComing soon to Steam
Players1–4 (co-op online/LAN)
LanguagesEnglish, German
AudienceFamily friendly, no violence
Download press kit Press contact

Press enquiries & keys: presse@wvuz.io
Clips and let’s plays are explicitly welcome.