If the Trump administration continues to use video games to spread propaganda online, I guess it’s only fair that people use video games to make fun of him as well. That’s what someone did when they recently installed arcade machines in Washington DC for a satirical RPG called Operation Epic Furious: Strait To Hell. You can play the role of Trump and do things like order Diet Coke, burn the Epstein files one by one, or fight bad guys like a “low flow shower head” in Iran.
The game was created by a pseudo-anonymous developer called Secret Handshake, and while people in DC can play the game at one of the arcade machines on the National Mall, if they feel compelled, people can also play a parody of the evil stupidity of the Trump administration by using your browser and visit Secret Handshake website.
Admittedly, I tend to treat everything Trump does too much as if it’s something to adequately mock, in a way that outweighs the awfulness of his administration in just one year back in office. I played enough of it to screenshot it for this blog and was immediately turned off by the patriotic chip tune music because that shit just isn’t funny to me anymore.
But hey, people who played it more say it’s actually not a bad RPG at the systemic level. So I hope these mystery developers are working on an original game about something that will be really cool at some point.