How to play
A crowd of followers drops out of the gold door and starts marching. Get enough of them home to Common Ground (the glowing green door) before they march off a cliff or into the swamp.
The crowd
- Followers walk straight ahead. They climb small bumps and turn around at walls.
- They'll walk off any edge. A short drop is fine. A long one is fatal. The swamp is always fatal.
- You can't steer anyone directly. You can only plant signs.
Signs
Click the ground to plant the selected sign. The first follower to march past picks it up and does exactly what it says. (The Golden Parachute and Social Climber are the exceptions: they stay put and work for everyone who passes.) Click a sign nobody has taken yet to pull it back up.
Or hand it over. Click a follower to give the selected sign straight to them, right where they are. A yellow box shows who will get it. That uses the sign up.
- Build the Wall
- That follower stops and stands there for good. Everyone who reaches them turns around.
- Golden Escalator
- Builds a rising staircase in the direction they're walking. Use it to cross a gap or climb over something.
- Drain the Swamp
- Digs straight down until there's nothing left to dig. Everyone behind follows them down the hole.
- The Art of the Deal
- Walks to the next wall and tunnels straight through it. Gray steel won't budge.
- Golden Parachute
- Everyone who passes gets one and floats down from any height.
- Social Climber
- Everyone who passes can climb straight up walls, steel included, as long as nothing hangs over the top.
- You're Fired!
- That follower stops on the spot, counts to five, and goes off with a bang, blowing a hole in dirt around them. They don't make it home.
- Bring Back Coal
- Mines down at an angle in the direction they're walking, until they break through or hit steel.
A first example
On Day One the road has a hole in it. Pick Golden Escalator, click the ground just before the hole, and press March. The first follower builds a golden staircase across, and the rest walk over it.
Controls
- Plan first. Each level starts paused, so you can plant signs before anyone moves. You can also plant while they march.
- Space marches or pauses. F is fast forward. R restarts. 1–8 pick a sign.
- The counters: IN is how many have come through the gold door so far, OUT is how many are on the road right now, SAVED is how many reached Common Ground, and NEED is how many you need.
- The clock only runs while they march. When it runs out, anyone still on the road is lost.
- On a phone, tap wherever this says click, and turn it sideways for a bigger level. On a small screen each planted sign shows its button's icon instead of a slogan.
- Keyboard planting: focus the level, use ← → to move the marker along the ground and ↑ ↓ to switch between ledges, then Enter to plant.
- If the crowd is pacing back and forth with nowhere to go, Everyone's fired (click it twice) gives every follower still out a five-second countdown and stops any more arriving. It can also blast a way through.
- Random rally, after the numbered levels, builds a new level from scratch. Each one is played through with its own answer before you see it, so it can always be won.