Executive Decision: A White-Knuckle Game of Real-Time Political Crisis is a game where one player takes the role of the President of the United States, everyone else plays members of the President's cabinet, during a fictional crisis. The game sessions are scripted, and last from one to two hours. The game has some mechanical rules, but primarily revolves around a series of in-character debates, where the players try to promote their characters' overt and hidden agendas.

Six crises are included with the game, printed so they are only readable using a mirror (to prevent spoilers). The game is scored, and has a winner. Players gain and lose points based on whether the outcome of a scripted event favors or goes against their agendas, and whether the "assertions" they make during a debate come to pass.

It's unclear whether Executive Decision is an RPG, a LARP, or a party game. Primary author Greg Stolze calls it a "real-time RPG" on his website, but a LARP in at least one forum post. "Crisis" author Dennis Detwiller says "It's a little like Choose Your Own Adventure, it's a little like How To Host a Mystery, and it's a little like 'The West Wing' re-imagined as a series of LARPS-in-a-can" on his blog.

The game was released using the "ransom" method, which was pioneered by Stolze during the development of Meatbot Massacre Once the goal of USD$1,000 was reached, the entire sum was donated to the Red Cross.