Electoral Carnage - Nixon

Electoral Carnage has a Nixon problem that feels like a feature. Players buy the DLC expecting it to work. It often doesn't. They own it but can't unlock it. The game tells them they already have it when they haven't. It forgets they paid. And yet the positive reviews outnumber the complaints because the moment Nixon does work — or might work, or could work after a patch — the character itself justifies the faith. His mechanical identity is strong enough to survive the bugs: the stone-scaling feels deliberate, the animation reads as intentional weight rather than lag, and there's enough comedy in the Richard Nixon aesthetic that even players who've never launched him defend him publicly. The pattern in reviews isn't customers excusing poor QA; it's fans of the character taking on the role of advocates. They're not saying the DLC works. They're saying Nixon is worth waiting for, worth the dollar, worth the developer's attention to fix. A few reviews capture this perfectly: one player rated it positive despite never opening it, confident it will be fixed. Another offered to pay again if it meant keeping Nixon in the game. A third joked that Nixon would crash birth rates with his fun factor — hyperbole deployed to side-step the technical mess. The developer framed this as a power-fantasy character. Players saw a comedic figure strong enough to carry a broken feature.