Games like Count Masters: pick the gate, grow the crowd
Count Masters made the math-gate crowd runner famous: pick the gate that multiplies your crowd, then crash it into the rival army. Crowd City, Join Clash 3D and Mob Control play in a similar way, and Roam has two runners built on the same gates.
What Count Masters is
Count Masters is a mobile crowd runner from Freeplay, a studio in Minsk, released in May 2021. You run forward with a small group of stickmen. Gates add, subtract, multiply or divide your crowd, so you steer toward the best number. At the end of each level your crowd fights an enemy crowd and, finally, a castle.
It became one of the most-downloaded games of 2021, helped a lot by its ads. The ads made people wonder if the game really plays like that, and it mostly does.
Crowd runners like Count Masters
- Crowd City. Voodoo's 2018 game. Walk through a city and collect people into your crowd, then swallow smaller crowds before the timer ends.
- Join Clash 3D. Supersonic's runner. Pick up stickmen on the way, avoid saws and walls, then fight the boss at the end.
- Mob Control. Voodoo's 2021 crowd shooter. You fire a stream of little people through multiplying gates to break the enemy base.
How to win more crowd runner levels
Do the math before you swipe. A x2 gate beats a +20 gate only when your crowd is bigger than 20. Early in a level the plus gate is often better.
Keep your crowd tight. Spinning blades and walls cut off the people at the edges, so stay in the middle of the track. Save upgrades for the starting crowd size first, since every gate multiplies it.
Roam crowd runners
Roam is a free iPhone app. Both of these use math gates and an army that grows as you run.
- Last Line: Math Runner. Pick the right gate, grow the army, and shoot your way through what waits at the end.
- Brainrot Last Line. Grow an army of logs through the gates and take down the giant at the finish.
Play it on Roam
More on Roam
Make your own crowd runner with Roam
Pick what your crowd is made of and what waits at the end. Roam builds the runner, and you can change the gates by asking.
Try: "crowd runner with math gates, my crowd is rubber ducks, the boss at the end is my teacher, 10 levels"Questions people ask
Who made Count Masters?
Freeplay, a studio from Minsk, Belarus, released Count Masters in May 2021.
Is Count Masters like the ads?
Mostly yes. You do run through math gates and fight crowds. Some ads show levels and tricks that are harder to find in the game.
What is the game where you multiply people?
That is usually Count Masters or Mob Control. Both use gates that multiply your crowd.