Take over one of Oxford's colleges — or found your own — on a pseudo-3D map of the city built from OpenStreetMap, against 38 AI-run rivals.
The browser opens on the quick game; the full game is one click away there, and it is what the download contains.
Made for the browser: about 30 minutes a game.
The whole thing, every system in your hands.
Built from OpenStreetMap: the buildings, streets and rivers of Oxford, and a simulated person behind every student, tutor and member of staff.
12,585 buildings, the streets and rivers from OpenStreetMap; day, night and seasons, traffic and people bring the city to life.
Every real college has its own character, wealth and subjects, and plays by the same rules you do.
Students, tutors, researchers and staff each have abilities and traits; they grow, leave, or get poached.
Rowing, football, chess, choir and the quiz: play them yourself, or let the simulation decide.
Two new cards every month, random events and hard choices steer your college.
Design the arms, choose ideals and subjects, and start from nothing on an empty plot of Oxford.
The desktop version is the full 20-year game; saves stay on your computer.
Installer: double-click to install; it adds desktop and Start-menu shortcuts and uninstalls from Settings.
Download the installer .exe · 297 MBOr the portable .exe · .zip
Not code-signed: if SmartScreen warns, click More info → Run anyway.
Unzip, drag The Collegers into Applications. Before the first launch, run this once in Terminal:
xattr -cr "/Applications/The Collegers.app" && codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/The Collegers.app"
Nothing to download: open it in a desktop browser; saves stay in your browser.
Start playing→Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). College arms are drawings from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA); the music is public-domain or CC0 / CC BY recordings, credited in full in the game's settings. Companies on the stock market are used in name only; prices are invented. The Collegers is an independent game: it is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the University of Oxford or any of its colleges, and college names and arms are used for identification only.