This Is the President
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 12.5h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 412 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA/AMD dedicated graphics card, with at least 1GB of dedicated VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 37 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, China: Mao's legacy ($6.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).
More about This Is the President
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 358 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
92% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 19:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I don't really understand why a game like this would give you a fake choice. I assume its early into the game but the musical chapter, sorry, why do i need to take the one specific action the game wants me to? why even give me the illusion of choice. This is so frustrating i have 0 desire to continue playing this game. I don't care about a game having a lose lose situation, but why can't i choose my loss? why give...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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...
It has been a great "terms" playing this game. Not sure how can people rate this so loww, but its above average. There's times where you think this game is so messed up but that's how it is to be a president (in the game at least). Cool storyplay, love how the choices really make an impact and how the dramas all feels like you are really the person who's responsible for the whole nation.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
This Is the President scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/730430/this-is-the-presidentReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.