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This Is the President
Developer SuperPAC
This Is the President is a political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to abuse the position of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos. From the Steam store page
194 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 13, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
111 positive · 71 negative
95% range 54–68%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 111 | 71 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
139 of 218 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
61% recommend · 111 yes, 72 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (280 of 412 positive).
Some find the gameplay shallow and the humor falls flat. [1][2][3]
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- [1]
I really liked the idea behind this game and went in expecting to enjoy it, but was ultimately disappointed. The premise is that you're some sort of corrupt business executive who, to avoid being prosecuted for your various crimes, decided to become President of the United States and pass an amendment that would give you lifetime immunity. It's an absurd plan, but that's clearly deliberate, and I did find the idea …
- [2]
Mechanically convoluted, tonally dissonant, and lacking a clear vision of what it wants to be. If you're looking for a gritty political simulator, you'll be irritated when the game asks you to devote your time to enhancing the reputation of a street drug bearing your Vice President's name, or when you lose reputation for not allowing a budget-driven sci fi blockbuster to shoot inside the White House. If you're …
- [15]
I really liked Suzerain so the comparison was enough to catch my interest. I'd say on balance I prefer This Is the President (TITP) - there's a different economy aspect, but the game is faster, has much more content, and it's easier to read. With that inevitable comparison out of the way, I can judge the game on its own merits. I like playing political sims, but I also like playing video games - why this …
- [5]
The premise of This is the President is simple: you’re a corrupt criminal who, somehow, inexplicably, becomes the President of the United States. How? Who knows. The game never really explains it, and it’s best not to think too hard about it. Your entire motivation? Passing a constitutional amendment that gives you lifetime immunity so you don’t get arrested the second you leave office. Totally normal stuff. To pull …
- [4]
So the new game in he "This is the..." Series was surprisingly so good. It had that fantastic blend of humor and decision making. I feel like there is a lot more realistic responses to your decisions and it was overall a joy to play. Pros: - great humour - The musical number and smooth jazz is SO great - Plays smooth and actions and reactions seem to make sense Cons: - Flashbacks to the POITUS - Sometimes people …
Summarised from 34 of the 195 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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This Is the President sits at 61% positive across 182 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 194 · most liked firstI really liked the idea behind this game and went in expecting to enjoy it, but was ultimately disappointed. The premise is that you're some sort of corrupt business executive who, to avoid being prosecuted for your various crimes, decided to become President of the United States and pass an amendment that would give you lifetime immunity. It's an absurd plan, but that's clearly deliberate, and I did find the idea amusing when I started playing. However, the humor ended up falling flat for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mechanically convoluted, tonally dissonant, and lacking a clear vision of what it wants to be. If you're looking for a gritty political simulator, you'll be irritated when the game asks you to devote your time to enhancing the reputation of a street drug bearing your Vice President's name, or when you lose reputation for not allowing a budget-driven sci fi blockbuster to shoot inside the White House. If you're looking for a tongue-in-cheek Mad World presidency, you'll be irritated when the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really liked Suzerain so the comparison was enough to catch my interest. I'd say on balance I prefer This Is the President (TITP) - there's a different economy aspect, but the game is faster, has much more content, and it's easier to read. With that inevitable comparison out of the way, I can judge the game on its own merits. I like playing political sims, but I also like playing video games - why this distinction? Because simulators often don't have much, if any, gameplay, as they're…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is made from what is considered to be in the USA, "a leftist platform," while this game isn't entirely bad, and has some adult humor that is quite funny. Additionally, not a negative, the construction of the game is like a "choose your own adventure book" style. However, the point where I had to call it a night on the game was when they brought the Migrant Caravans into the fray. I chose the option that best matches my view point, and the one that matches the US Constitution, and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only organized crime, where you don´t get punished for... politics In "This is the president" you have an interesting mixture of visual novel and management game, which is heavily leaning towards story telling. As the newly chosen Potus, you and your wife, as well as crazy best friend are doing everything they can.... for the people? for the country? naaah.. to protect yourself and cash in as much as you can on the way, of course. For this you have to keep the money flowing as well as your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. As someone who played both This is the Police, I really enjoyed the narrative and writing of both games, and bought this game almost solely on the fact that it had people from TiTP involved in the writing. Unfortunately, while the game shows a lot of promise, there are some very glaring issues. 1) You don’t know who you are, as a character. The introduction is particularly rough due to this, since you find suddenly “find out” that you’ve had a gay lover,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve heard pundits go berserk when a football coach wears a ball cap during his post-game press conference. This is the President of the United States, transferring deceased soldiers who died during the war he ordered. Nothing is more solemn.
neutral · AI labelView post →I review this game as someone with a bit of game-dev experience, and as someone who has actually worked in the American political system. I had a good friend who was a mayor, I was on the staff of a Congressman, I held a post in the White House - this genre has a specific appeal to me. Let me break this game down. Positive: So much attention to detail, it is amazing, and with great pacing to keep the player from being overwhelmed! Kudos to the game devs on that point. The cast of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get Suzerain; it is much better. There is too many 4th wall breaks to keep you in the story, and the extra gameplay in This is the President doesn't add anything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game's narrative is quite weak, not committing to either being completely serious, nor being a satire. In the effect, getting through the ridiculous story feels like a slog. Your decisions mostly don't influence anything aside from your popularity meter, which for the practical purposes doesn't really matter. None of your decisions seem to make any influence, making the gameplay a slog. Just feeling disappointed overall with the story of the game and influence you actually have over it.. :(…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, Most of the negative reviews for this game are centered around it not being what they expected. It is more of a choose-your-own-adventure type game. I highly recommend this game to those who enjoy strategy games and politics, and who are looking for a new game to pick up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WOW! A President Donald Trump simulator! Guess I'll just play it one day at a time over the next four years, I'll crush this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After a promising start this game has worn rather thin, and I'm only a quarter of the way through. I'm stopping now because the gameplay systems are beginning to expand in ways that unpleasantly remind me of "We. The Revolution" which was a neat core game that tacked on so many superfluous gameplay systems that it undermined itself, which wasn't helped by the narrative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the bed in Act 3. I do enjoy the core loop of This is the President, if only initially. Managing my subordinates,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Is Not The Police Are you a fan of This Is The Police and wondering if this is more of the same or too different for you? Well, the game is basically you read a LOT of text, then click a choice and see whether you get a good or bad result. The style and humour is the same, but the police resourcing is out and replaced with a 20 hour book's worth of text. There's a game here I'd love to play if the text was more concise. If you approach it as a visual novel, you'll be closer to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this would have strategy involved and be able to do things my own way, completely wrong. the only strategy is picking choices or things to say, which if they're not what the developers want, you get punished with bad reputation, and there's no rhyme or reason to figure out which it will be, just a 50/50 guessing game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To say this is a strategy game is an insult to truly well thought out games with more advanced and satisfying decision points. The choices are nonsensical and typically there is only one "correct" answer, which has no logic as to why it would be more correct than the other responses. The game would benefit greatly from more positive outcomes and not feeling so constrained as to make people feel railroaded into a path it wants you to go down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: shallow, not fulfilling, railroaded choices or political stance Overly woke, and you can't make any major decisions of the goals or policies as President. Things happen to you and you just respond, which if your not in agreement with the makers of this game you just lose. One of those "my way is the only way" political games. I think they tried going for comedy at points but it misses the mark often. You can't even choose your ideology. I understand the commentary on you can't please…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On paper, this game sounds great. It's like "Scandal" where the politics play a secondary role to the damage control/spin of covering up the players' dirty little secrets. I went into this game honestly wanting to love it, but I encountered some issues I could not overlook. First and foremost are things like spelling and grammar. I saw at least one "United Stated" misspelling, which is a problem in a text-heavy game where you are the President. I also saw instances where a character was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think there should be more choice on your party and Ideology
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The premise of This is the President is simple: you’re a corrupt criminal who, somehow, inexplicably, becomes the President of the United States. How? Who knows. The game never really explains it, and it’s best not to think too hard about it. Your entire motivation? Passing a constitutional amendment that gives you lifetime immunity so you don’t get arrested the second you leave office. Totally normal stuff. To pull off this ridiculous plan, you have to become wildly popular—winning over the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty enthusiastic in the beginning but the game keeps on throwing you curveballs over and over. You just can't get good in this game because the game tries to make a fool out of you. It would have been funny a few times but 50% of the time, it's really obnoxious. And then you realise that you are actually playing bad and you basically need to restart every month to protect yourself from the sense of humour of the developers : a great way to artificially lenghten your game, which is already…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →firstly, i'd like to apologise for my grammer, i have issues but i do my best. now then on to the review. secondly this review uses the term 'player killer' which is a term i use for a segment of the game so boring or painful that i think a normal player would just quit at that point. to put this short, there was potential for a good game here, but be it by bitterness or dislike, its become a bad one for having no good options and not understanding how important balancing the selections is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/] With 1,100+ reviews, make sure to follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! Starting a new game will allow you to choose the games difficulty and there are four options to choose from. You have Easy, for players who are just here for the story, Normal is recommended for most players. Challenging is for those players wanting a challenge and Hard where any wrong action could be the end of your presidential career. It’s…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game starts out strong, looking like a promising blend of Suzerain and This Is the Police. An interactive political story set in the Oval Office, it channels Designated Survivor or Madam Secretary—with a darker, more cynical edge. You juggle popularity, personal finances, and the stress levels of your advisors while trying to survive a presidency shaped by the skeletons in your closet. The setup is compelling, and the narrative drip-feeds your past effectively. Unfortunately, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I purchased this game because people had compared it to Suzerain, some even said it was better than Suzerain. Well, it is no Suzerain. The only comparable quality that I can make is that they both have to do with politics. That is it! Suzerain is a masterpiece to me, left me wanting more and has replay-ability. This is the President is an okay game leaving me to not want to play it again. The saddest thing is it is a slightly exaggerated true perspective of U.S. politics and if you are a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The bruised, denied, bastard love child of Suzerain and This Is The Police, The President delivers a corruption simulation par excellence. Essential.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great promise but it has a very political slant. The game intro needs to be re-written. Its "okay" that the main character has a crazy back story, but dropping it as exposition midway thru the game is a little lame. Hard to get into character. It goes from serious to funny to satire and you are never really sure what the right tone is. Choices are random, the results are counter intuitive. So you are just guessing. Great concept, would love to see part 2 with a much better back story and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game, coming from suzerain and other political fiction games. There are many things to like, the game play is quick, writing is quippy, and production value is certainly high with some nice cut scenes. However my gripes mirror many reviews. Tone: The tone is inconsistent, do not expect immersion but rather a ping pong between dealing with a shooting to watching a play about gay lovers resolved by running an old man over. I quickly went from reading most lines to simply…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PROS: 14.99€ CONS: Politically biased Completely illogical Unbearably boring Childish
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME unless you like reading superfluous text, characters who are annoying, petty, and braindead, or the whiplash of hundreds of 'serious' decisions that ultimately don't matter but make it impossible to feel like there's any point to progressing the game. Seriously, the balance between 'action points' (for lack of a better description) in actions per agent and money every turn, random events, and the somewhat interesting but ultimately ridiculous story-line... just not worth…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⚡ Difficulty 🔲 My grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ☑️ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 A challenge to be reckoned 🔲 In the heat of confrontation, (Only PVP games) 🗺️ Graphics 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Normal 🔲 Very Good ☑️ An original artistic direction 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece 📚 Story 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Basic element of the contractual requirements ☑️ It's there for people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts 🔲 A model to get inspired by ⌛️…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How does someone come back from a 1 month long vacation and is already 3/5 fatigued in the beginning of the next month before they've done anything? The developers of this game have no concept of game balance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, some crazy old dude blackmailed me and I've tried like 7 different ways to deal with him peacefully but it looks like I need to (literally) run him over with a car to progress the story. No, thank you ^^ If you don't have a problem with that, you may like the game though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, if only there was some reason that this game popped into my mind again. Hey, look, there's a new SCOTUS decision being published...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know what the problem with this game is. It would have been relatively easy to portray the problems of a single person who has to make very important decisions on their own. Instead, it's a back-and-forth of stupid jokes and then wannabe technical terms. The entire system with the stress of the employees makes just as little sense as the voter approval. You constantly read endless texts that are absolutely superfluous in the end. Why read something if the result still seems random?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“Dramatic, but it's way too dramatic.” The concept of the game and the graphics themselves are good. The story of this game was enough to remind me of the lesson: "It's very hard to be a moral and ideal leader." Before I started this game, obviously I was determined to reform and advance the United States as a politician with a people-conscious, progressive view of politics. But after playing the game, I assassinated 4 characters and generated budget revenue through corruption. I played dirty…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am the President of the United States of America. I'm not quite sure how I got there since I'm a pretty shady guy with a pretty shady past. I have 2 goals while I'm in office: to party like it's 1999, and to pass legislation that grants me protection from prosecution once my term is over. I've hit a bit of a roadbump though. I'm barely a year in and I'm about to be impeached. But my fixer tells me not to worry, for a cool $10 million he can solve both of my problems. He seems really…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will keep my review short, it's a pretty cynical outlook on the world and you as the player are constantly doing damage control for something your character supposedly did before the game even starts. When you make a decision that's for the good of the people or not entirely self serving, one of the other characters quickly reminds you that you're not being congruent with the piece of ♥♥♥♥ that was running wild before you took over. This is a game I might play again if I'm bored of all…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is good, the implementation is dissapointing. The game is a series of choices: you have an event and you have to choose what to do or pick one / several of your people and pick what they should do. Problem is: the player doesn't know and doesn't have any clues which of these options are correct. A good game would give clues what should you do, here it's usually "pick an option, find out that you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, reload, pick another option, repeat untill you stumble upon the "correct" one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOTE: I have not completed the game yet. The game is random with interesting but poorly fleshed out mechanics, barely saved by a good narrative. Your choices really don't matter all that much--I could probably use some dice to choose which actions I take and have a better time than actually trying to make the better decision. Create a pottery studio for the first lady after she asked for one? The press: "A sexless marriage filled with bickering". Display miltary strength after Chinese…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game for a specific type of player. One that likes a narrative, with some variation, some quick thinking, some puzzle solving and people management. Replay is small, unless you just like trying out differing things (I do) but nothing major really changes unless you completely fail. If you are worried this is going to smack too hard of real world politics, it doesn't much. Sure you can draw parallels but it doesn't try to smack you in the face with it as much as you might fear.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A mix of the Suzerain and This Is the Police. Unfortunately the plot is far weaker, having none of the dramatic tension and depth, while at times being inconsistent and unnecessarily goofy. I did enjoy some of the management aspects, but it did become repetetive and a bit of a chore in the end. Quite a bit of my gametime was spent on watching UI animations (which were somewhat distracting) and waiting for the actual content to show... And don't get me started on the soundtrack, which I just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually enjoyed the game quite a bit, but then it froze at the 2022 election and no matter what I did, restarting the game/PC, uninstalling and reinstalling it wouldn't proceed from that spot. Kind of sucks because I actually enjoyed the story but it seems like the game is broken 8 hours in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll be honest it is not a game for everyone. It can be boring reading through all the texts (really boring), playing multiple hours in one go can be a toll but I enjoyed it nonetheless! It is something different from your typical game, a fresh air for me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like it. Feels like a interactive novel rather than an actual game, way different than the previous games they've released like "This is The Police", but it's alright. I enjoy the soundtrack, however i very much dislike that there are only 2-3 songs per every month which go on repeat, sometimes the same song plays over and over again. Very frustrating, other than that, i enjoyed the experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like that we are so constrained while playing. With every action that you take, the members on your team gain so much stress points. Every month I only had one team member whom I can use to solve only one card on the left and that too if I have given them a vacation for a month. As we progress ahead the headaches just keep adding with the goals. The money and ratings keep going down so easily. It added stress points to my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of text, lots of reading beware! Fun game especially if you liked This is the Police series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay, so you want me to memorize how to resolve hundreds of mini events? Including fillers? You expect me to keep the track of ALL right choices and combinations? And all this for what? To help out a dude whose shoes I am thrown into, and then what? Am I supposed to fabricate "Fun" when I'm doing someone else's homework? When the game gives me Devs must have felt smart, scattering all those "Bet you didn't expect that" BS all over the game. Yeah, bet you didn't expect this reception.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While this game shines sometimes as well written satire the game-play aspect can be frustrating, overly punishing and outright ridiculous. It feels like no matter what you decide or how well you think something through, completely random stuff happens that ♥♥♥♥♥ over your plan. These twists and turns of modern politics COULD be an enjoyable factor for the player - were it not for the quotas (money, public opinion, etc.) that have to be met in order to progress with the game at all. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So the new game in he "This is the..." Series was surprisingly so good. It had that fantastic blend of humor and decision making. I feel like there is a lot more realistic responses to your decisions and it was overall a joy to play. Pros: - great humour - The musical number and smooth jazz is SO great - Plays smooth and actions and reactions seem to make sense Cons: - Flashbacks to the POITUS - Sometimes people don't give the info you need - The the game can be kinda tedious and slow if your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an event based text game with an enjoyable, if a bit wacky, story and a few supporting game systems. Had a lot of fun and enjoyed the... ending :D Areas of improvement would be to speed up the quite nice animations a bit as the waiting gets old a while in and to try to optimize performance a bit for laptops (my old mac is churning hard even when nothing is going on which hurts batteries). 75/100 - would destroy america again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dislike. It's more of a visual novel than a diplomacy simulator. You're the president of the united states but only 4 people work for you & you can't hire more. I like the idea of this game more than the game itself. Anytime you put someone in a grand seat of power, the game immediately restricts them to being less than human. First thing that happened in the game was I won the presidency and then held a co-conference with the loser of the campaign. The loser said I would support them and of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started off as intriguing, but sadly became way too politically biased. The consequences are also way too arbitrary.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Distance in meters hahahaha yeah, right
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Inspired by the events of 2020, where in real life two peaceful right-wing activists were assassinated on camera, both murders carried out by antifa activists with connections to private security contractors who work hand-in-glove with the government, and no deadly violence was demonstrated to have been initiated by any right-wing private citizens despite provocation by seven months of antifa/blm riots, this game tells you that when a dozen MAGApedes are slaughtered, it was a false flag attack…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you don't like reading you'll hate it, but thats your loss. The developers have spent a hell of a lot of time on this game and it is well worth it. It is quite addictive once you get into the story., almost like a book that you can't put down. It sure is difficult being President. You can't please everyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be clear: this game is not a "simulator game". I find it difficult to place neatly into a single genre and while I'm tempted to use the term "choice-based interactive novel" I feel like that leaves the wrong impression. Story: I don't want to just repeat the game description: President, shady past, goal of passing amendment to escape justice. You get it. My feeling was that it mostly came across like if "House of Cards" was written less as a thriller and more as a satirical comedic tragedy,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh, i didn't have a bad time, i just wish there were more than one correct way to doing things. I replayed it three times and most of the choices don't feel impactful, there is only the correct or the wrong option nothing more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Is the President, developed by SuperPAC and published by THQ Nordic, is a darkly satirical narrative-driven strategy game that drops players into the Oval Office not to lead with dignity, but to escape justice. You take on the role of a newly elected president of the United States, but instead of building a legacy based on governance and ideals, your primary objective is to consolidate enough power to grant yourself lifetime immunity from prosecution. The game’s concept alone sets the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful. IT seems any decision you make backfires. It's an absurdist game with little enjoyment factor.
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