This is kind of old drama but I was looking for potential father's day & birthday gifts for family & friends and stumbled across this board game called "Secret Hitler"
This 2 and a half year old game has a 4.9 star average across over 13,000 reviews on Amazon and sold 3,000+ copies in the last month alone. As far as I can tell, it's second only to Ticket To Ride as a board game that's both well-reviewed and selling well.
The game is sort of like Mafia, where one player is "Hitler" and a team of hidden "fascists" try to use deceit to install "Hitler" into power in the face of a "liberal" majority that's trying to stop them.
The game's PC way of explaining the Hitler theme is that essentially it's an interactive way to learn how paranoia and distrust empowers fascism, how liberal temptation to use state power to prevent fascism can actually aid it, etc. The game's online rule explanation is even narrated by gigalib Will Weaton 
The rules aren't necessary for this thread but if you're curious they're here
So how is a 4.9 star game about Hitler dramatic? Well, about half of the 1% of people who left 1 star reviews are absolutely seething, and people are mad across the spectrum.
First, some chuds can't face the fact that Hitler was the chudmaster supreme and that normal people think Hitler is bad
The immediate appeal to military patriotism isn't helping you beat the fascism allegations Steph...
Some libs are mad because Hitler and the fascists are happy when they win, when really they should apologize for winning and be sad. This game is promoting fascism!
Jewish people with holocaust relatives understandably find this to be a sensitive subject
The sole survivor? 
Finally, some 'centrist' equivacators arrive to remind us that both sides are bad
Erm, actually Hitler saved Germany from the communist street fighters, and they're called national socialists not nazis. It was complicated OK?
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This game rules. A fun house rule that we added is when a bill is passed, you have to say what it is, and we always make them as over the top as possible. For example, liberal policies include: open borders, mandatory trans surgeries for children, etc… fascist policies include: gas chambers for furries, creating right wing dearth squads, etc… and of course when a liberal policy passes we all clap and congratulate ourselves for being such good liberals. This truly is the ultimate griller's game
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Eh; there's a lot of pointless rules that confuse the normies.
And of course, mentioning Hitler triggers 3/5 people.
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Eh I play this with my normie friends and they all picked up on it pretty quickly. If everyone has a decent sense of humor and can laugh at their own political views (I know this I hard in current year), everyone tends to have a good time.
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I haven't played it in years and 2 of the 3 groups I played it with were too r-slurred to understand the rules or how to play. I miss playing this with my college bros
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FWIW I think the game means liberal in the European sense, not the wingcuck sense. But agreed, Secret Hitler is a great griller game. Shooting people and watching them
is fun
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