CrowdGate

Your stickmen start running the second you load CrowdGate, and they don't stop. You're not controlling their speed - you're steering, dragging them left and right through number gates that multiply your crowd or shrink it if you pick wrong.

Every gate is a bet. Grab the plus sign and your army swells, grab the wrong one and you watch soldiers peel off before your eyes. Dodge the obstacles scattered across each colorful level or lose part of your crowd right there on the road. It's quick to read but genuinely tense to play.

The whole run builds toward one thing: an enemy zone at the end where crowd size decides the fight. Bigger army wins, full stop, so every gate you clear along the way is really a vote for who's still standing at the finish. Sessions are short, which makes it easy to fire off just one more run.

If you like the escalating build-up-and-cash-in rhythm here, Stick Merge scratches a similar itch with its own stickman crowd mechanics.

Guide your automatically running stickmen through the correct number gates to grow your crowd, then win the battle waiting at the end of the road.

Drag with your mouse or use the A/D keys to move left and right. Steer into gates that add to your crowd and steer around obstacles - hitting one costs you part of your army.

Before each gate, glance ahead: a bad pick shrinks your crowd right when you need numbers most for the enemy zone fight. Bigger crowd always wins, so play every gate like it matters.