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Crowd multiplier siege
Army siege game: grow your army and break the keep
One cannon, one lane, and a keep that will not open.
A siege fought one soldier at a time. Hold to fire your muster up a single lane and drag to slide the cannon; every banner your men walk under multiplies or cuts them, so the question is never how fast you shoot but which banner is worth feeding. The keep answers with its own garrison, the bar at the top shows who holds more of the field, and a champion goes in when his meter is full. Break the gate before the clock runs out, and before their men reach your camp.
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Free to play, no download, no sign-up. Hosted with ❤ by GamerX.
How to play Gatecrash
Press and hold anywhere to fire, and drag while you hold to slide the cannon along its rail. Arrows on the ground show exactly where the shot will go and ring the first banner it will walk under. Your soldiers land in front of the cannon and march straight up the lane, and every banner they pass under applies its number to them: twenty men under a ×3 become sixty, under a ÷2 they become ten. Green banners help, red ones hurt. The keep sends its own men down the lane, and where the two sides meet they fight one for one and fall where they stand. The bar at the top of the screen shows how many men each side has on the field and says plainly who is winning. The tube on the right is their gate, which every soldier who reaches it wears down; the tube on the left is your camp, which their men wear down if they get through. Feeding banners fills your champion meter: when the button lights up, tap it and a giant knight lands in front of the cannon and smashes into their line. Break the gate before the clock runs out to take the stage. On the first stage a few short lessons show you the ropes, and the clock waits while they are up.
Tips
- Feed the multiplier, not the nearest banner. A ×3 reached by twenty men is worth far more than a +10 reached by five, and the difference grows for the rest of the lane.
- Follow the arrows on the ground: the ring at their end is the banner your next soldiers will walk under.
- Watch the bar at the top. When it turns red they have more men on the field, so feed a multiplier before your line meets theirs.
- Save the champion for a big wave. He lands in front of the cannon and the shock of his landing rolls up the lane through their front ranks.
About Gatecrash
Gatecrash belongs to the crowd-multiplier genre that took over mobile a few years ago, and it is one of the few that treats the crowd as a resource rather than a spectacle. The interesting decision is not where to shoot but what to feed: because every banner acts on however many soldiers pass under it, the value of a multiplier depends entirely on the size of the line reaching it, which means a good player is constantly doing rough arithmetic about a number that is still moving. Technically it is the most demanding thing on this site. Several hundred individually animated soldiers are on screen at once, and they are drawn in a single pass by baking each animation into a texture the GPU samples per-instance, rather than posing several hundred skeletons on the CPU. That is what makes the crowd feel like a crowd instead of a sprite sheet.
What you need
- Graphics
- WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
- Controls
- Keyboard or touchscreen
- On a phone
- Yes
- Install
- Nothing. It runs in this tab.
Questions
- How do you win at Gatecrash?
- By arriving at the gate with more men than the garrison can absorb. That is decided by which banners your line passes under, not by how fast you fire, so the skill is choosing which multiplier is worth feeding with the soldiers you currently have.
- What do the banners do?
- Each one applies its sum or multiplier to every soldier who runs under it. A x3 triples the men who reach it; a subtraction takes that many away. Their value therefore depends on how big your line is when it gets there.
- How do I know who is winning in Gatecrash?
- The bar at the top shows your men against theirs and says who is winning. The tube on the right is the enemy gate you are breaking and the tube on the left is your own camp.
- Is Gatecrash free?
- Yes. It runs in the browser with no download, no installer and no account.
- Can I play Gatecrash on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?
- Yes on a Chromebook. Gatecrash draws with WebGL, which every Chromebook has had for years, and it is built for integrated graphics rather than a dedicated card. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It plays on a phone with touch controls, and it is built wide - turning the phone sideways gives it the shape it was designed for. A keyboard works too.
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Controls
- DragSlide the cannon along its rail
- HoldFire
- Tap CHAMPIONSpaceSend the champion when his meter is full
- EscMenu