Tonight We Riot
Main game
2.84 average rating based on 19 ratings
- Developers
- Pixel Pushers Union 512
- Publishers
- Means Interactive
- Platforms
- Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Genres
- Arcade, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Indie
- Themes
- Action
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release Dates
User Stats
How Long Is Tonight We Riot?
Turn Left
Is not a surprise that I like a game about a violent leftist revolution against captialism. And this is not my interpretation, Tonight We Riot is very, VERY open about what is trying to say. So, yes. This game directly caters to my wildest leftist fantasies and I love it for it.
Besides that, this is actually a very fun little indie brawler with a few Pikmin mechanics for good measure. Music is great, the retro aesthetic works fine and some action moments can be very intense and chaotic. The way we unlock weapons and how the difficulte is managed is great. Sadly, not all weapons are well balanced and it has a lot of technical issues. I'm playing the game in spanish. Why are the texts suddenly on french or russian?
Some people will never forgive Tonight we Riot because it 'promotes' violent protests, even when it makes clear that this is only because the world didn't left other choice.
Anyway, here's my full review in spanish.
PD: I also love that Pixel Pushers Union 512, the devs, are actually putting their money where their mouth is. They're a worker cooperative. No bosses. All their voices carry the …
Is not a surprise that I like a game about a violent leftist revolution against captialism. And this is not my interpretation, Tonight We Riot is very, VERY open about what is trying to say. So, yes. This game directly caters to my wildest leftist fantasies and I love it for it.
Besides that, this is actually a very fun little indie brawler with a few Pikmin mechanics for good measure. Music is great, the retro aesthetic works fine and some action moments can be very intense and chaotic. The way we unlock weapons and how the difficulte is managed is great. Sadly, not all weapons are well balanced and it has a lot of technical issues. I'm playing the game in spanish. Why are the texts suddenly on french or russian?
Some people will never forgive Tonight we Riot because it 'promotes' violent protests, even when it makes clear that this is only because the world didn't left other choice.
Anyway, here's my full review in spanish.
PD: I also love that Pixel Pushers Union 512, the devs, are actually putting their money where their mouth is. They're a worker cooperative. No bosses. All their voices carry the same weight and earn the same amount of money. Other studios, like KO_OP Mode and Motion Twin are similar. I hope more follow example.
¡Viva la revolución!
I love that this exists at all
I bought this purely because I love the idea of an unapologetically strongly leftist game about rioting. For the first half hour i cackled with glee throwing bricks at riot cops and overturning cars. The gameplay is pretty shallow and it gets old fast. the game is very brief and though it stays on message it stops being about delivering that message and starts trying to throw some silly video game bits to stay interesting. I encourage support of this game purely because I want to see more just like it but doing other things with the idea. Hope to see it happen.
InnuendoStudios's review of Tonight We Riot
I smell what it's steppin in. it's a beat-em-up where you play the crowd, moving left to right as a single member of a riotous mass, simply replaced with another should you die, influencing a crowd. your extra lives are your comrades; they are also your buffs. stronger together. solidarity for factory town. witness me bloodbag.
it's just not, like... that fun? the presentation is great, but the feel is jank. might be a little too aware of what a DSA meeting feels like - if we are stronger together, why am I the only one with any self-preservation? why are my comrades liabilities? why do they always aim just to the side of where the trouble is? this is coming off the heels of playing broforce, a game that INFURIATED me to no end, but that I finished cuz it was also fun. its core moment-to-moment loop was good.
playing tonight we riot felt like homework. (it literally was, I gave it to myself as an assignment.) homework is not always miserable - I was good at math! - but an obligation. my leftist duty. and the role of the artist is not to make the revolution a reasonable …
I smell what it's steppin in. it's a beat-em-up where you play the crowd, moving left to right as a single member of a riotous mass, simply replaced with another should you die, influencing a crowd. your extra lives are your comrades; they are also your buffs. stronger together. solidarity for factory town. witness me bloodbag.
it's just not, like... that fun? the presentation is great, but the feel is jank. might be a little too aware of what a DSA meeting feels like - if we are stronger together, why am I the only one with any self-preservation? why are my comrades liabilities? why do they always aim just to the side of where the trouble is? this is coming off the heels of playing broforce, a game that INFURIATED me to no end, but that I finished cuz it was also fun. its core moment-to-moment loop was good.
playing tonight we riot felt like homework. (it literally was, I gave it to myself as an assignment.) homework is not always miserable - I was good at math! - but an obligation. my leftist duty. and the role of the artist is not to make the revolution a reasonable chore.
bummerpants.
Cool theme, terrible gameplay
In this game you walk across the street and disable obstacles (cops, cop tanks, barriers). The theme is really cute. You meet Loukanikos the riot dog, throw rocks & molotovs and even climb up stairs and jump on a flag pole like Mario. But the actual gameplay sucks pretty hard with terrible aiming controls and basically no variation.
I'm watching Mr. Robot and, while I like the main premises, I'm kind of disappointed in how the writers portrait
This is free on GOG. Don't trample yourselves to get it!
https://www.gog.com/game/tonight_we_riot?pp=4d89d294cd4ca9f2ca57dc24a53ffb3ef5303122
BTW: It was also part of the itch.io massive bundle.
This was such a balm and exactly what I needed to play after recent events. It's on the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality!
Unbelievable that this was released the same month as the Minneapolis protests.
Finished and loved it.
Who thought I'd like this much a video game that let me participate in a violent worker revolution against the one percent?
He he he.
Review soon.