French Protest Simulator

You call the shots

Before you head out, you name the protest and fill the placards with your slogans and your own pictures. A joke between mates or a real cause: the crowd marches for it all the same, and that night your day makes the evening news.

Thousands of people, and you in the middle

You're wedged between two backpacks with someone's placard in your face and the police line edging closer. If someone loots a shop, that's all anyone will talk about.

Start a chant

Shout your slogan and the rows behind you pick it up, then the ones further back, all the way down the street. On day one you hand out flyers and whoever takes one joins the march.

With friends

Solo or up to four in online co-op. The banner takes two to carry, and if your mate lets go it drags along the ground in front of everyone.

It starts with four of you

Every week you pick up more recruits, and the money you make carries over from one game to the next.

In the game

• Proximity voice chat: you hear whoever is right next to you

• A sea of people around you, in first person

• Characters to unlock as you play

• It's a caricature: nobody gets injured and none of the characters are real

What's coming next

• Smoke flares in your movement's colours

• Gear to find during the march

• A third-person view, to see your character in the crowd

• A TV report of your protest, as an image to share

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