Grillers' favorite game 'Secret Hitler' causes bipartisan butthurt

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?