Mr. President

Mr. President is a digital adaptation of GMT Games’ board game Mr. President: The American Presidency 2000-2020. You lead a US administration through two decades of domestic and diplomatic challenges, selecting a Cabinet and making decisions that shape your presidential legacy. The game includes historical events as well as counterfactual crises that could have happened.

Scenarios and the presidency

Play any of seven historical scenarios, one for each presidential term from 2000 to 2024, or choose a sandbox scenario representing the general trends of those two decades. You can tackle questions such as whether to pass Social Security reform in the early 2000s, how to protect the world from a nuclear Iran or North Korea, and how to secure lasting immigration reforms.

Alongside diplomatic and domestic crises, you nominate Supreme Court justices and guide their confirmation hearings, manage scandals, run for re-election, work with Congress on your legislative agenda and build an effective Cabinet. Events may also introduce alternative histories, such as an earlier or more severe global financial crisis, escalating violence in Central or South America creating a cartel-dominated rogue state, or domestic political crises driven by outsourcing and automation or a spike in oil prices.

Decisions and strategy

The game features over 150 historical and counterfactual Crisis events. America’s key allies and adversaries have their own action lists and agendas, and each turn gives you a large menu of actions to weigh against your limited action budget. You also prioritize US strategic capabilities, including cyber warfare, space and intelligence gathering, while taking account of peer rivals Russia and China.

Digital board management

The digital version handles the administrative tasks that slowed tabletop play, leaving you to focus on strategy. Tables and action lists are available with a mouse click, the board view lets you move between the overall situation and an individual crisis, and scenario setup takes seconds.