This Is The President Review Swamp Simulator 2021

This Is The President Review: Swamp Simulator 2021

This Is The President is a satirical political game that is excellent when it hits the mark, but feels a little too drawn out to be a vote winner.

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This Is The President Review Swamp Simulator 2021

Although it may sometimes appear otherwise, politics and video games regularly go hand in hand. Whether it’s the obvious examples such as Six Days in Fallujah or something less overt like the corporate subtext of Stardew Valley, it’s hard to escape political content regardless of the game. This Is The President, from developer SuperPAC, it a little more overt in its focus.

This Is The President is a satirical political simulator, with the player taking on the role of the President of the United States. Having recently been elected versus a shady blowhard who spends too much time on Twitter, it may seem that running the country well is the focus, but our president has other ideas. The player has only become president to pass an amendment to the Constitution, to ensure that they cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed in their dodgy past before their time in the Oval Office.

The president in This Is The President is not a nice man, and is instead a corrupt, self-centered, narcissist with suspicious ties to Russia. This leaves the game in a different position to structurally similar games like the excellent political simulator Suzerain, which had more of a focus on being an honest, open leader if the player so chose. This Is The President is all about being as corrupt as possible, balancing popularity with money-making and backhand dealings to hoodwink the American people.

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This Is The President Review Swamp Simulator 2021

The president isn’t alone in this, and has a team of hackers, muscle, legal advisors, and communications experts on hand to carry out tasks to further the agenda. Players need to be careful how they use them, as each team member has five stress points and each task has a chance to raise their stress levels. Ask too much of them, and they’ll quit, die, or commit crimes of their own.

In essence, This Is The President is a four-year long heist movie with the President of the United States as its protagonist. The player’s machinations include getting Congress on their side, appeasing the Supreme Court, and ensuring they have sufficient public support for the amendment to make sure the president and his cabal are not imprisoned after the term is up. These elements of the game work well, requiring correct dialogue choices or selecting the correct team member for specific tasks, and the satirical comedy is on point.

Of course, the player has to be a president during this time too, and this is where This Is The President begins to struggle. Some of the events that occur are rather funny, like deciding to find a new national anthem for the USA or gaslighting the President of France into believing a secret reptilian organization runs the world, but at other times it feels a little like padding. There’s only so many times a task to find a mole in an organization can come up before it becomes repetitive.

From a gameplay perspective, This Is The President feels closest to the best expansive interactive fiction games, with static gameplay that revolves around choosing policies, directives, dialogue options, and the actions for other members of your team. When it works well, it’s enjoyable to see the player’s larger-than-life team go about their awful tasks, but sometimes choosing options does feel like a shot in the dark. This can be frustrating, as the player choices can often just as correctly be made with a coin flip than working out that the best option should be.

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This leads to This Is The President feeling a little bit overly long, as the player chugs through the events of presidency to try and get to the next main plot event. Some of the mechanics are also tiresome, such as the appearance of squabbles between team members that can result in one quitting unless the player puts them through expensive relationship counselling. As such, there’s only so much that the joyous idiocy of the player’s terrible Vice President can salvage from some of the other elements of the game.

This Is The President certainly has its good moments, with its silly humor hitting the mark more often than not and its core plot servings its purpose well. However, it does wear out its welcome thanks to an over-reliance on filler and restrictive mechanics to try and curb the player’s success. A little bit more trimming and this could have been a fantastic political game, but even so it still has plenty of quality behind it.

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