In a forgotten game on Steam, you save Donald Trump from an assassination attempt: Suddenly it’s frighteningly topical

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An 8-year-old game is currently experiencing a resurgence on Steam. The number of players has increased by 440%. In “Mr. President!” you save Ronald Rump from an assassination attempt. Rump is a parody of the then candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump. Current events give the game, which had already been forgotten, a cynical relevance.

This is “Mr. President!” on Steam:

  • The game was released in October 2016 and has 82% positive reviews. That is “very positive.” Mr. President! costs €8.19 (via steam).
  • The game was a typical “YouTuber gimmick game”: well-known YouTubers like PewDiePie and JacksepticEye played it for a while when it was released, but it was quickly forgotten. In Germany, “Paluten” and Mexify dedicated themselves to the game.
  • Although the game has reached millions of views on YouTube, the game was never successful on Steam. At its peak, it had 350 simultaneous games. For the last 7 years, Mr. President! had been almost completely forgotten, but that changed now.
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    Biting parody of Donald Trump and “the liberal media”

    What is the game about? In “Mr. President!” you are Dick “Rock-Hard” Johnson, the best bodyguard money can buy. Your job is to protect “Ronald Rump” because the “liberal media” have rigged the election, damaged Rump’s previously impeccable image and are now even planning an attack.

    As a Secret Service agent, you must save Rump from 50 different attacks by, for example, predicting the trajectory of a shot.

    Player numbers quintuple on Steam – albeit at a low level

    Why is it experiencing a boom now? Although the game has not been worked on for years, the current events surrounding presidential candidate Trump have ensured that Mr. President! now has 5 times more players at its peak than the month before.

    With the sniper attack on Trump (via tagesschau), the number of players rose almost immediately, albeit at a low level. At its peak, 87 people were playing at the same time.

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    “Mr. President!” was a typical game in 2016 that content creators played once and generated millions of views.

    This is how it is discussed: On Reddit, parallels are drawn to other games that have seen a resurgence due to the “reality imitates fiction” phenomenon. The submarine drama is mentioned in particular.

    In June 2023, the world discussed the submarine “Titan”, which was on its way to the Titanic. The discussion boosted the player numbers of a very good horror game on Steam, which deals with a similar scenario: Sales of a horror game on Steam rise after the Titan submarine disaster: “Feels so wrong”

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