ALEXANDRIA, Va — Great news for mobile gamers who want to step into the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol and act like a senator. A new idle game called Senate Floor lets players tap their screens to fund genocide in Gaza.
Early reviews have praised the immersive way “Senate Floor” incorporates its story into the game’s mechanics.
“Much like the way United States senators sit in comfy chairs as they sign bills that enable Israel to decapitate Palestinian children halfway across the globe, players can tap their screens to fund war crimes from their own couches,” wrote mobile game critic Jeffery Cassidy in their 10/10 review.
And according to the game’s website, the controls are easy-breezy.
“Want to condemn Hamas? Tap the screen! Want to make a vague speech about hostages? Tap the screen! Want to hand eighteen billion dollars to a foreign power with a history of cruelty unmatched in modern history? You know what to tap!”
According to critics, the game is the first game of its kind to truly make players feel like an actual member of the United States government.
“Becoming a United States senator famously takes years of hard work. But thanks to Senate Floor, mobile gamers who want that special senatorial feeling of enabling Israel to purposely bomb schools and hospitals can do so for only five dollars. That’s money well-spent for any player who has ever dreamed of being completely responsible for the deaths of innocent people yet somehow able to sleep at night,” wrote Cassidy
The only complaint reviewers have made is that the game is a little too easy.
“We’ve tried and it seems there’s no way to lose the game,” the Kotaku review lamented. “Any time the player starts to run low on cash, they immediately receive millions of dollars in in-game money from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. And even if you don’t tap the screen, AIPAC runs ads in your home state that exploit Americans’ deep-seeded anti-Muslim racism so that you win the election and can get back to funding more war crimes.”
The game’s developers have said they considered making an option where the player can stand up to their fellow senators and refuse to be a willing accomplice in Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, but they ultimately found it too unrealistic.
