This Is the President - A Story Driven Management Game Where You Play as the President of the USA

[cyborgboy95]

https://af.gog.com/game/this_is_the_president?as=1649904300

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Wonder how this game will hold up against Suzerain

ABOUT THIS GAME
This Is the President is a story driven management game. In the year 2020 you are elected to be the President of the United States of America. To escape justice for your past crimes as a shady multi-millionaire businessman, you need to ratify Amendment 28 which would grant lifetime immunity to the President.

Manage your official and unofficial staff like a real mafioso in order to deal with all the old problems you’ve had in the past, as well as the shiny new problems that come with the office. You’ll battle with your competitors, the establishment, the media and even foreign leaders.

In this political thriller-satire mix, the player's actions will inescapably lead to situations that escalate into absurd, terrifying, tragic and even ridiculous situations.

There’s only one way out. Change the fabric of the Constitution of the United States by persuading, blackmailing, bribing, and bullying a large part of the political system into granting you lifelong immunity.

• Manage your approval rating, cash and crew unlike any US President before – stay on top of your presidency by any means necessary
  
• Hold speeches, draft executive orders, manage daily crises, hold press conferences, and tweet better than any President before
  
• Hire a team of assassins, hackers, lobbyists, and other specialists. Send them on dangerous missions that can be solved by legal means. If that doesn’t work, send them on dangerous missions that can be solved by illegal means
  
• Experience a compelling interactive narrative with a wide variety of choices and story branches. Will you end your term on your terms, or are you just a pawn in a bigger game?
  
• Rule the country as a true mobster would with a shadow cabinet that is feared and respected on a global scale

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

art imitating life

 

[Catacombs]

Wonder how this game will hold up against Suzerain

I really enjoyed Suzerain... for the first few days. It got boring after that. Hopefully, this can hold my attention.

 

[Burning Bridges]

is this going to be political propaganda?

and who had the ridiculous idea of photographing miniatures and calling it CGI?

 

[Malakal]

Finally, BOLOMFFFT simulator, I always wanted to play that. Followed.

 

[asfasdf]

Can you nuke Israel

 

[0wca]

art imitating life

More like life controling art.

 

[Nutria]

It's an interesting concept. A game where you are... what some retard in some part of Europe imagines the President of the United States is.

I'll just be playing Hidden Agenda for millionth time since the 1980s since it's the only game of this kind that was ever any good.

 

[Norfleet]

It's an interesting concept. A game where you are... what some retard in some part of Europe imagines the President of the United States is.

To be fair, at this point, it's pretty clear that being the President is actually kind of a joke. And the blurb is pretty spot on.

 

[Burning Bridges]

It's an interesting concept. A game where you are... what some retard in some part of Europe imagines the President of the United States is.

Yes like all Eurojank

 

[gerey]

It's gonna be shit unless you can do this.

All joking aside, making such a game in the current political climate can only mean the devs are going to be pandering to the leftists, hard.

 

[Krivol]

There was also that game... Cyber Judas ( the sequel to Shadow President) .

 

[thesheeep]

All joking aside, making such a game in the current political climate can only mean the devs are going to be pandering to the leftists, hard.

Or not, and every little thing in the game will just be nitpicked to death by either side looking for the enemy lurking in the shadows.

No matter what the devs do, they'll receive an unending flow of hate coming their way.
Hope it'll be worth it for them

It'll certainly be worth it for spectators to appreciate the mayhem around it.

 

[Zeriel]

All joking aside, making such a game in the current political climate can only mean the devs are going to be pandering to the leftists, hard.

Or not, and every little thing in the game will just be nitpicked to death by either side looking for the enemy lurking in the shadows.

No matter what the devs do, they'll receive an unending flow of hate coming their way.
Hope it'll be worth it for them

It'll certainly be worth it for spectators to appreciate the mayhem around it.

This Is the President is an extravagant political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to take full advantage of the privileges of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.

Bro, what does this sound like to you? It's pretty obvious.

 

[Zeriel]

It's gonna be shit unless you can do this.

All joking aside, making such a game in the current political climate can only mean the devs are going to be pandering to the leftists, hard.

This needs an edit for 2021 where this makes your popularity skyrocket, since both the grassroots left and right hate Israel now. The only people who like them are establishment pols (for obvious, corrupt reasons).

 

[thesheeep]

All joking aside, making such a game in the current political climate can only mean the devs are going to be pandering to the leftists, hard.

Or not, and every little thing in the game will just be nitpicked to death by either side looking for the enemy lurking in the shadows.

No matter what the devs do, they'll receive an unending flow of hate coming their way.
Hope it'll be worth it for them

It'll certainly be worth it for spectators to appreciate the mayhem around it.

This Is the President is an extravagant political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to take full advantage of the privileges of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.

Bro, what does this sound like to you? It's pretty obvious.

Didn't read their site as it's not a genre I'm interested in.

But yes, that does sound pretty obvious

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

I would have preferred this one.

 

[Mark Richard]

Wonder how this game will hold up against Suzerain

Going to be tough to match the stellar writing of Suzerain, but at least there's gameplay.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Blompf simulator in the current year? Going to guess they started working on this before the election.

 

[Monkey Baron]

Same devs as This Is The Police. That game had a lot of potential but fell off after a few hours, hopefully this game is much more consistent.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Going by this, it seems to be disappointingly linear in terms of roleplaying this or that ideological stance. You're basically roleplaying a guy with no convictions whose main goal is just to get lifetime immunity through his political maneuvering.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/785740/announcements/detail/3133939205671010983​

This Is the President is now available!

The Eagle is on the Move! This Is the President Launches Today, New Trailer

Minsk, Belarus / Vienna, Austria, December 6th, 2021 – Today is the day. Time to take command and become the next President of the United States of America. For the greater good? More like, for your own good. Don't forget, you’ll need to get the 28th Amendment to the Constitution ratified,
no matter the cost. To do so, you'll need to maintain a good approval rating, so you'll have to work on creating some popular policies. Maybe regulating those nasty video games to protect the children? Or create a legal framework on the harmonious coexistence of Man and Robot? How about running a campaign to increase the birthrate by encouraging the citizens to ... uhm, reproduce more?

How you run the office is in your hands - but make sure the amendment gets ratified before your time in the Oval Office is up, or the next room where you'll spend time in will be neither oval nor an office.

The dark and gritty political thriller This Is the President launches today, December 6th, 2021 on PC for an SRP at $ 14.99 | € 14.99 | £ 11.99.

This Is the President on Steam:


Watch the release trailer on YouTube:


Enjoy & Stay tuned!​

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Look on the upside, they can re-release blompf simulator in 2025 as a definitively butthurt edition for mega sales.

 

[Haba]

Somehow I have the feeling that you shouldn't take the game too seriously...

 

[lightbane]

Not a bad idea, games are overpriced nowadays, multiple times.

So, is this a TRUMP! simulator, or a Biden one?
Can you try to make harsh-but-good policies, or are you limited to only lol-evil choices?