A Gorgorus production
Play the news.
Short arcade games about money, energy, and the mechanics behind the headlines.
Playable now · simple games with escalating pressure
No. 01
Tax Run
Pick a country, catch gross paychecks, watch the wedge take its cut, and survive to pension day.
No. 02
Grid Lock
Route electricity across a fragile grid. Deliver factories, survive weather shocks, and invest in upgrades.
No. 03
Slogan School
Typing Invaders. Shoot down official talking points before they reach the public line.
No. 04
Bond Vigilante
Whack the politicians before the 10Y yield bar fills. Three pass and the country defaults.
No. 05
Energy Minister
Spin wallet, voters, reserve, and industry plates while energy shocks keep landing.
No. 06
Subscription Hell
Run past the auto-renewals. Jump over subscription traps. Slide under banner ads.
No. 07
Brussels Bureaucrat Tycoon
Veto red tape, spare green simplification, and survive trilogues before the acquis eats the office.
No. 08
Subsidy Whack-a-Mole
Whack faster waves of subsidy schemes before urgent files push the deficit past 7%.
No. 09
Capacity Auction
Hit bids on the clearing line, watch rivals bid live, and win the pay-as-clear auction.
No. 10
Strike Frogger
Cross Paris during rolling strikes. Grab passes, dodge sector surges, and survive pension-reform mode.
No. 11
Tax Wedge Tetris
Fit falling tax pieces, clear reform rows, and keep net pay above the cost-of-living floor.
No. 12
CEO Layoff Simulator
Slice costs, read the role tags, and avoid firing the infra owner.
No. 13
Asymmetric Pong
Citizen vs State · Founder vs VC · Borrower vs Bank · Saver vs Inflation · Journalist vs Press. Your paddle shrinks. Theirs grows.
No. 14
ECB Printer Go Brrr
Reverse Tetris. Fit euro pieces while CPI burns the bottom rows and policy tools bend the board.
No. 15
Flappy FCAS
Flap through changing approval gates: German pillars get thick, French pillars shorten, Italy oscillates, Brussels doubles.
No. 16
Air Defence Command
Defend a critical-infrastructure site (data centre, refinery, hub) from drone waves. $4M per intercept; drones cost $20K.
No. 17
Mow the State
Drive the tractor over worse grass to fund benefit files, state spending, repairs, diesel rules, and eco compliance.
No. 18
Paperwork Pac-Horde
Eat green paperwork, dodge red oversight, and grow the office until bigger Brussels targets turn edible.
Backlog · Europe and public balance sheets
Idea 01
China Shop
Defend EU market share against waves of subsidised EVs, solar panels, steel, and shipping containers.
Idea 02
Export Dependence
Spin German export plates. Each plate wobbles when tariffs, sanctions, or geopolitical shocks hit its market.
Idea 03
Energy Bill Roulette
Spin to find this month's household bill. The ball never lands on cheap.
Idea 04
Demographic Cliff
Guide retirees to the pension office while the worker line shrinks behind them.
Idea 05
Kilowatt Crusher
Match energy tiles while the German government bans one more tile type every level.
Idea 06
Mario Draghi's Whatever-It-Takes
Boss-rush platformer across a crumbling Eurozone. Final boss: Karlsruhe.
Idea 07
Private Operator
Stay solvent as price caps, grid fees, mandates, and windfall taxes stack on your head.
Idea 08
Frequency Walker
Balance on a 50 Hz transmission line while wind, batteries, and demand tip the wire.
Idea 09
State Aid Bingo
Match state-aid notifications, block exemptions, IPCEI projects, and anti-trust probes.
Idea 10
Compliance Tetris
Falling regulation shapes fill the board. Clear lines into acquis before gridlock hits the top.
Idea 11
Acquis Match-3
Match identical regulations for harmonisation combos. The board fills faster than you clear.
Idea 12
Permit Runner
Run through 27 countries collecting permits and dodging inspectors with local gimmicks.
Idea 13
Permitting Dig Dug
Dig planning-permission tunnels under process delays, local objections, and carbon-offset paperwork.
Backlog · Markets, banks, and households
Idea 14
Rate Hike Climber
Bounce up a policy-rate chart. Recession platforms crumble under you.
Idea 15
Crypto Whale Pinball
Pinball where bumpers are exchanges. Hit FTX and the ball disappears.
Idea 16
Boomer vs Zoomer Tower Defense
Defend a house deposit from lifestyle-cost waves with side-hustle and rent-control towers.
Idea 17
Procurement Snake
Eat compliant suppliers, avoid sanctioned entities, and grow a procurement agency tail.
Idea 18
Audit Pac-Man
Eat receipts in a corporate maze while CFOs chase you through quarter-end.
Idea 19
Geopolitical Asteroids
Blast oil shocks, sanctions, and currency crises before they split into second-order effects.
Idea 20
TLAC Invaders
Regulatory acronym waves descend on a bank. Fire RWA-light derivatives back.
Idea 21
Stress Test Breakout
Paddle liquidity into systemically important bank bricks and trigger bailout notes.
Idea 22
AML Minesweeper
Reveal customer accounts, flag suspicious ones, and avoid missing sanctioned exposure.
Idea 23
Cap Table Solitaire
Stack funding rounds by valuation while anti-dilution provisions flip against you.
Idea 24
Crossy Banking
Hop across rate-hike conveyor belts to deposit savings in a stable bank.
Idea 25
Bull Run Doodle Jump
Jump up an endless market on rate-cut platforms while bear-market platforms break.
Idea 26
Bailout Pinball
A bailout package ricochets through member-state bumpers extracting concessions.
Idea 27
Tax Haven Battleship
Hide offshore vehicles on a jurisdiction grid while OECD salvos search for them.
Idea 28
Trickle-Down Plinko
Drop tax cuts and watch most balls land in buybacks instead of wages.
Idea 29
Ratings Pyramid
Hop a bond from CCC to AAA while analysts knock you back down the pyramid.
Backlog · Politics and boardrooms
Idea 30
Coalition Four
Drop party tokens into parliament. First four-in-a-row forms a government.
Idea 31
Lobbyist Bomberman
Place committee bombs, chain amendments, and avoid your own probe radius.
Idea 32
Lobbyist Worms
Turn-based amendment artillery between Brussels lobbyists with leaks and redactions.
Idea 33
Customs Checkpoint Defence
Place customs, AML, and sanitary checkpoints against contraband and paperwork truck waves.
Idea 34
CEO Climb
Climb scaffolding past severance packages to fire the CEO at the top.
Idea 35
Slice the Excuses
Earnings-call buzzwords fly past. Slice them, but avoid going-concern language.
Idea 36
Pension Lemmings
Route retirees past austerity reforms while some get reassigned to extra working years.
Idea 37
Hyperscaler Galaga
AWS, Azure, and GCP waves capture your engineers until you rescue them.
Idea 38
Supply Chain Centipede
Shoot tariffs at a segmented supply chain. Every break creates rerouting fragments.
Idea 39
Freight Frogger
Cross a congested port while trucks, cranes, scanners, and customs lanes push the board around.
Idea 40
Budget Helicopter
Hold to rise above spending cliffs, release under tax ceilings, and survive deficit wind.
Idea 41
Inflation Whac-a-Mole
Central bankers whack rate-cut requests while dovish countries respawn faster.
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