Quo Vadis is a clever game of political manipulations. It's can be played by 3 to 5 players, and a game of it takes about an hour. The board is a stylized org chart consisting of a hierarchy of committees. Each committee has one, three, five, or seven spaces in it, and is below one or two other committees. At the top of the hierarchy is the Roman Senate, which has space for five pieces.
Every player starts with eight senators.
Or you may attempt to advance a senator out of its committee. You can only advance if you control the majority of spaces in the committee. You can pay for the deal, or promise support when it's your opponent's turn. The game is designed with the express purpose of forcing players to have to cut deals with one another in order to advance. On almost every turn, you have to cut a deal, or get set up so that someone's going to have to cut a deal with you.