This Is The President

The Oval Office becomes the headquarters of a desperate cover-up in this darkly comic political management thriller. You play a newly elected U.S. president whose polished public image hides the past of a corrupt millionaire, and survival depends on passing a constitutional amendment that grants former presidents permanent legal protection. The setting is an exaggerated 2020 America where scandals, partisan pressure, foreign crises, and tabloid-level absurdity collide. Its tone swings deliberately between sharp satire, uncomfortable cruelty, and escalating chaos rather than offering a sincere civics simulation.

Each turn brings a stack of presidential problems that demand choices, from domestic policy and media fires to diplomatic incidents and personal liabilities. Decisions affect political support, finances, staff loyalty, public perception, and the long-term effort to secure enough backing for Amendment 28, while inconvenient consequences often return several weeks later. Your cabinet is not limited to respectable advisers: lawyers, hackers, fixers, reporters, and hired muscle all have uses when legitimate channels fail, though each employee brings personal flaws and leverage of their own. Managing budgets, assigning people to tasks, exploiting secrets, and deciding which crisis deserves attention creates a tense loop where no solution stays clean for long.

What makes This Is the President memorable is its willingness to turn presidential power into a messy resource-management puzzle rather than a power fantasy. Seemingly minor actions can snowball into bizarre international incidents, brutal betrayals, or black-comedy set pieces, giving repeated runs room to unfold differently even when the central objective remains fixed. The presentation favors stylized character art, dense event writing, and a cynical atmosphere over realistic policy detail, so players looking for a serious grand-strategy government simulator may find its exaggeration too broad. Fans of Reigns, Yes, Your Grace, or narrative-heavy management games with morally ugly choices will find plenty to chew on, especially if they enjoy politics treated as a ruthless, unpredictable criminal enterprise.