Is the President a Traitor?

I should start by revealing my bias; I'm a big fan of stories concerning spies, espionage, and webs of political scandal. This game feels a lot to me like All The President's Men, the Game and I love it. Anyway, I think this is one of the best espionage simulations on Steam, mostly on the strength of its devotion to the theme. The writing is evocative; conversations with mysteriously-named sources are thrilling and nervous, especially in the beginning when you don't know who you can trust. The news feed pumps a steady diet of worryingly familiar headlines at you; and once you reach the point where you can start to make big moves against the corrupt members of the government, your computer display warns you in red letters that you are being watched. The game has a visual style to match, with brooding photographs for every actor and plenty of folders, torn papers, and typewriter fonts in the UI. I think the critiques against the game written already (low replayability, simplicity, somewhat cluttered AI) are fairly made, but for me the game really accomplishes a lot, and with a low price tag. I think anybody who's interested in an intriguing game about this subject matter should giv…

The answer is yes, our president is quite clearly a traitor.

I have played through the game and beaten it once. I've also lost once. The graphics are a bit primitive, looking like something that might have been done with stock photos and either photo shop or perhaps even MS Paint. The UI is not by any means intuitive, and this game does very little in the way of tutoring the player in how to play or other forms of hand holding. All that out of the way, what a spectacular game! This title gave me the feeling I was the director of an investigation during a modern day counter-intelligence / DOJ operation that somehow also managed to convey the look and feel of some of my favorite 1970's era thrillers such as 'The Paralax View', 'The Conversation', and , of course 'All the President's Men'. While this game has a very identifiable political point of view (the regular media updates make that quite clear), anyone who may disagree with it and is willing to look past it while find an excellent little intelligence operation-sim hidden gem. Highly recommended!

I can't believe how much this game is slept on. The vibes are immaculate if you enjoy spy thrillers. I've found the gameplay loop to be quite cathartic in our current times.

I was expecting alot more from this game. The music is what broke it for me to be honest, and with no way to escape out to settings to turn it off or down i just closed the game down and will never open it again. RIP to my $3, don't let them get your $3 too.

This game will make you feel more like an office clerk of the 90s than a special agent of the 2020s. Too much small text. Hurts eyes. Otherwise, it's a fairly standard resource management strategy rushed into Trump conspiracy narratives.