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RIOT: Civil Unrest is a strategy game about confrontations between police and protesters. Each scenario gives you objectives, and you choose tactics to try to achieve them. You can play both sides of a conflict and see how your choices affect the outcome: aggressive tactics may resolve a situation quickly, while a softer approach may reach the same resolution without damaging public opinion. Your performance is rated.

The game draws on creator Leonard Menchiari’s first-hand experience of the NoTAV protests in Italy. It presents the feelings and stories of people on both sides of the clashes, including police officers who may be outnumbered and crowds driven to anger. The game leaves you to draw your own conclusions about who is right or wrong.

Campaigns and scenarios

The campaigns cover four protests: Indignados in Spain, Arab Spring in Egypt, Keratea in Greece and NoTAV in Italy. They contain 16 campaign levels across the four scenarios, with 32 levels playable from either the rioters’ or police side. More than 30 additional single-level scenarios include the Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris, financial reform protests in Buenos Aires, economic protests in Caracas and the G20 Rote Flora clashes in Hamburg.

Play as the police

You command Assault, Tactical and Ballistic squads, using passive or aggressive crowd-control tactics. You can call in police trucks, water cannon or a tank, and choose whether to use smoke grenades, rubber and plastic bullets, or live ammunition.

Play as the rioters

You direct armed and passive rioters as well as journalists. You can incite the crowd to act aggressively, or try to calm the situation through tactical crowd reformation and retreats. Rioters can attack authority with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, paper-bombs, rocks, street furniture and the power of the media.

Game modes

Single-player mode pits you against the computer AI. In Versus mode, you can play with or against a friend or AI on the same computer.

Create scenarios

The level editor lets you name a riot, describe the event and add details such as where and when it takes place. You can add background images and place or edit sprites from a library of more than 700 objects. The editor also supports lighting and weather effects, vehicles, particle effects and filters, as well as custom character skins, clothes and gear. You can set gameplay rules for the rebel and police teams and define their objectives, then share your scenarios on Steam Workshop.