RIOT: Civil Unrest for Nintendo Switch | Merge Games

RIOT: Civil Unrest is a real-time riot simulator that places you at the heart of some of the world's most fractious clashes - and lets you fight from either side.

Playing as the police, you employ crowd-control tactics both passive and aggressive. Command assault, tactical and ballistic squads, call in police trucks, water cannon or even a tank, and choose whether to use smoke grenades, rubber and plastic bullets, or live ammunition.

Playing as the rioters, you direct armed and passive protestors and journalists. Incite rage to make the crowd act aggressively, or try to calm the situation with tactical crowd reformation and retreats. Attack authority with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, paper bombs, rocks, street furniture and the power of the media.

Campaigns cover Indignados in Spain, the Arab Spring in Egypt, Keratea in Greece and NoTAV in Italy, with seventeen further single-level scenarios including Rome, Oakland, Paris, London and Ukraine.

It is pointedly political and deliberately uncomfortable, and that is entirely the intention. Not a game that lets you feel good about either side.