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Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/290690/Tonight_We_Riot
About This Game
In a dystopia where wealthy capitalists control elections, media, and the lives of working people, we’re faced with two choices -- accept it or fight for something better.
Tonight We Riot doesn’t have just one hero. Instead, you play as a movement of people whose well-being determines the success of your revolution.
Core Features:
Couch co-op
20 unlockable weapons, gear, and perks
A dog
Whimsy
Kaiju
A wood chipper
Endless Mode
Horror Synth
The unique catharsis that comes from throat-punching a billionaire ghoul who would rather watch the world and everyone on it burn than lose a tax break
Please spend your money on our game, Tonight We Riot.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Tonight We Riot all about?
If you want more info than what's on the store page, check out this Kotaku piece.
What is Pixel Pushers Union 512?
A handful of industry vets and novices who decided to make some videogames and share any money the games make equally. They made Tonight We Riot.
What is Means Interactive?
It's the game publishing division of Means TV, the world's first post-capitalist worker-owned streaming service.
Weren't you working with New Blood Interactive before? I like New Blood.
We were. We like them too! But you have to admit, Means Interactive is a perfect fit for this game.
Why did Tonight We Riot drop off my wishlist?
There were some problems getting the original Steam page resurrected. Because so many people at Valve are rightfully working remote right now, support requests took a lot longer to resolve. The Steam store page and hub were finally transferred and made public only two days ago, at which point the most recent 126 people to add it to their wishlist had it removed. We're glad you found us anyway!
I saw you at SXSW like 5 years ago. What took so long?
The devs have a bunch of kids and day jobs.
Incessantly Asked Questions
IF tHiS iS A SoCiAlIsT GaMe, WhY IsN'T It fReE?
If that's a serious question, there's some cool stuff to learn about socialism. First, plenty of forms of socialism coexist with markets and exchanging money. The key to socialism is eliminating the exploitation of workers that comes when capital concentrates into the hands of others. Since the workers who made this game are also the owners of what they produced, that exploitation is less of an issue.
If you're concerned that the platforms the game is on aren't worker-owned, or that the device the game is played on might have been made through unfair labor practices, those are totally valid concerns. But, as that way-too-often-applicable comic points out, you can live in a society while also wanting to improve it somewhat.
Still, I'm angry this game exists.
Sit with that a while. If a silly little pixel-art game about people rising up and overthrowing a repressive capitalist kleptocracy makes you so angry that you want to post pissy comments or review-bomb it, no one will stop you. But does the thought of people rationing insulin make you this angry? Do you think maybe your outrage has better places to go? No? Welp, see you in the comments.
Screenshots
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Wew lads. And to top it all off, their Steam discussions forum is going as you'd expect. Exhibit A:
Lmfao
