Which gate should I pick in Crowd Stampede?

Compare them against your current crowd. An addition beats a multiplication while your crowd is smaller than the number being added; above that, the multiplication wins. The crossover moves as you grow.

They buy upgrades between runs, most usefully a bigger starting crowd - which then changes which gates are the right pick.

Is there anything to dodge?

No. The track is straight and the entire game is the gate maths.

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Run the gate math, grow your mob, cross the line the biggest.

A hyper-casual crowd runner: barrel down a straight track through gates stamped +, −, ×, and ÷, steering your growing horde into the ones that help and away from the ones that gut it. Coins buy upgrades between runs, but the real game is reading the next gate fast enough to still have a crowd when you reach it.

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How to play Crowd Stampede

A straight track lined with gates stamped +, -, x and /, and a crowd that grows or shrinks according to which one you steer through. Drag or use left and right. Because the track is straight, there is nothing to dodge and nothing to time; the entire game is reading the next pair of gates fast enough to pick correctly while still moving at speed. Coins collected during a run buy upgrades between runs, which raise your starting numbers and shift where the arithmetic crossover sits. Reaching the line with the biggest crowd you can is the whole objective.

Tips

Addition beats multiplication while your crowd is smaller than the number being added. Work out that threshold at the start of each run and re-check it as you grow.
Read the gate pair as early as you can see it. On a straight track, reaction time is the only thing limiting you.
Division is not always avoidable - when both gates are bad, take the smaller loss rather than clipping the divider.
Spend upgrade coins on starting size before anything else. A bigger start moves every subsequent multiplier in your favour.

About Crowd Stampede

Crowd Stampede is the crowd-multiplier genre reduced to its arithmetic core: no obstacles, no jumps, just a straight run and a sequence of binary maths decisions taken at speed. That makes it the clearest demonstration of why the genre works, because there is nothing else to blame a bad run on. The upgrade loop between runs is what gives it legs - raising your starting crowd changes which gates are correct, so the optimal play genuinely shifts as you progress rather than being a fixed rule you learn once. It is a Unity WebGL build rather than three.js, which is why it loads a little differently to the rest of the arcade. Currently off the shelves, still playable.

What you need

Graphics: WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
Controls: Keyboard or touchscreen
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Questions

Which gate should I pick in Crowd Stampede?: Compare them against your current crowd. An addition beats a multiplication while your crowd is smaller than the number being added; above that, the multiplication wins. The crossover moves as you grow.
What do coins do?: They buy upgrades between runs, most usefully a bigger starting crowd - which then changes which gates are the right pick.
Is there anything to dodge?: No. The track is straight and the entire game is the gate maths.