American Election

American Election

released on Aug 30, 2019

American Election

released on Aug 30, 2019

A dark political nightmare game about Abigail Thoreau, a campaign assistant working to elect her candidate. You are being followed.


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Truman Glass comes off a little too smart and dignified to be an accurate stand-in for Trump

American Election is a text based game that you can play for free on itch.io and it takes about 2 hours to finish. Incredibly written game where you play as Abigail Thoreau, a campaign assistant for obvious Trump stand-in, Truman Glass. The game utilizes the illusion of choice very well, as your character finds out that changing the system from the inside might not be as possible as she had hoped. It also deals with the ways in which a nation's fears and precariousness can be weaponized by those in power, and how they can take the values of a community and twist and corrupt them into something evil. Amongst all the late night comedy shows poking cheap fun at Trump, this game wants to take a deeper look at the man and the country, and ends up revealing the issues that go deeper and darker.