I Am Your President – PlayStation 5 Review

Perhaps one of the most on-point and topical theme possible in 2025, I am your President places the player at the Resolute desk as leader of the free world and with the office of the President of The United States of America, the player can direct policy in the right way, you know, the way that they alone could do that would fix everything if they were the President.

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From the promotional video, it is clear that I Am Your President will allow players to choose their president’s political leaning and dictate policies across multiple areas, such as defence, education, immigration – you know all the fun stuff that is currently debated.

With obvious identifiable Trumpisims such as Make America Great Again, and abundance of decisions versus reaction, the consequences both positive and negative will likely be somewhat offset by the game mechanics throwing up obstacles and challenges to keep it interesting.

The players will be presented with a lot of policy choices and can play as conservative, moderate, or die-hard socialist. Could it also be possible in this game to become Marxist communist dictator, but do socialism the right way so that everyone is happy and prosperous? Of course the answer to this is in the player choices, game mechanics and how accurate the simulation is.

Now what promised so much actually was very poorly delivered on the PlayStation 5. Early on, the game required a lot of reading, which is impossible on a 55” screen at 3m distance – the font is simply too small.

Navigation was clumsy and half the interactions and buttons simply didn’t work, but instead – since the screens are layers and panes on top of the main screen, button clicks seemed to activate the things behind the active window, and well the whole interaction was completely misaligned making it unplayable.

After 45 minutes of attempting to give this title a fair shake, it simply was not possible and frustrations were at 100%.

From a graphics perspective, the cardboard cutouts and interactions are quirky but perfectly fine for a game of this kind and the layout and design of the oval office, menu and dashboards etc, are all perfectly well done. As mentioned however, the font is too small and this might be alright if the player had the ability to increase the size.

The controls are not intuitive and navigation is done with the left hand as opposed to the right, which again would be no big deal if the player could customise the controls, but there were also no options.

Sound and Music again had no real options for customising to taste and the music was a bit annoying.

Simply put, this is another one of those “release to every platform” dump and burns that gave no consideration to the limits and designs of the title vs the platform. For PlayStation 5 users who play at a desk in front of a monitor with a mouse and keyboard, you may have a better experience, however it is recommended that this game be strictly played on PC only; whereby other players have already had a good experience.

No score, as it would be unkind and unfair to provide a score for this review.