Indie video game Bohrdom, by White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen went viral online, attracting a lot of attention and comments.
Bohrdom started out as a little-known game on the Steam platform, described as a “non-violent”, asymmetrical, skill-based fighting game loosely based on the chemistry model. It was launched in 2018 and is advertised through YouTube and X accounts.
After the shooting, one reviewer on Steam left a review calling it “a game made by a crazy woke leftist assassin who steps up and shoots the president.”
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My attention suddenly soared after the photo shoot.
The game was released in 2018 and had only a handful of reviews before the incident, but has since seen a surge in traffic and reviews. After following Bohrdom again Cole Allen Identified as the shooter at WHCD on April 25th.
Rumors about the game’s origins spread quickly on social media Sunday night.
Former Kotaku editor-in-chief and Game File author Stephen Totilo saw players flooding Bohrdom’s Steam forums at 11:30 pm ET and sent a screenshot of the event to Bluesky. Allen storms agent According to CNN, the checkpoint was conducted outside the event around 8:30 p.m.
PC Gamer reports that as of Monday afternoon, the Steam store page had 107 user reviews, a 50/50 “mixed” status, and 10 pages of discussion threads. Via Bohrdom’s Steam comments, more than 100 people have paid $2 to participate in the political debate, and many more are doing so in the discussion forum without paying for the game.
Some users commented on the site, “This attack is guerrilla marketing.”
User-defined tags describe the game as “bullet hell,” “assassin,” and “politics.”
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What is Bochdom about?
Bohrdom is a game primarily used as a teaching tool. As described by PC Gamer, in this gamified version of atomic chemistry, people take on the role of electrons or nuclei. Allen calls it “technically a skill-based, non-violent asymmetric fighting game” or “a hybrid of Bullet Hell and a racing game.”
One user reviewed the game on Steam, writing“Graphically very simple asymmetrical arena fighting game with very special rules. One atomic nucleus fights up to 12 electrons in single player or up to 4 players split screen/online. Fun for chemistry geeks.”
Another user described the game and interpreted the title. He wrote: “Aha, I get it, Niels Bohr developed an early model of the atom as a play on the word ‘boring’. It’s a very good title that suggests it wasn’t intended to be a major project.”
