Math Army Run
Swipe to steer a growing stickman army through gates that multiply, add, or divide your troop count.
Auto-run, swipe to change lane and pass through math gates (x2, +5, ÷2); bigger army smashes the boss at the finish line.
Swipe left/right (one-thumb)
Bright cartoon stickmen, candy-colored math gates, oversized floating numbers
Count Control Legends is #25 trending on Poki with 649k votes - the math-army runner is hitting hard and the audience is proven.
Math-gate multiplier loop is a proven cognitive hook (Count Control Legends trending, Poki 649k votes), but visual 'growing stickman army smashing boss' is well-worn across Count Masters clones.
Crowd/army runners are highly shareable on TikTok; Count Control Legends has TikTok hashtag, YouTube gameplay (1.4K subs), and sits in Poki trending — but the genre is dominated by fake-out ad creatives which both fuels and dilutes virality.Official Poki page for Count Control Legends, confirms format and audience ↗TikTok hashtag shows organic creator coverage ↗Reddit thread documenting saturation of swipe/merge gate games on TikTok/ads ↗
One-thumb swipe + auto-run + simple arithmetic gate logic is trivial in Unity/Phaser; Gate Militia was built with Phaser and shipped to Google Play, proving low build complexity.
Standard hypercasual ad stack (rewarded revives on boss fight, interstitials between levels) maps directly onto proven Count Masters-style army runners; math-gate variants ship with the same playable-ad funnel.Gate Militia ships with 50 campaign levels + endless + offline — full hypercasual monetization skeleton already in market ↗Confirms Phaser-built math-gate army runner is live on Google Play ↗
Extremely crowded: Count Control Legends, Count Masters, 'Math Army Runner' (Dec 2025 mobile release), 'Gate Militia: Math Army Run' (live on Google Play with identical +5/x2/÷3 + boss mechanic), and itch.io 'Math Army' — the exact concept already ships under multiple names.Direct competitor on Google Play with identical mechanics (math gates + army + boss) ↗'Math Army Runner' already covered as a 2025 mobile release — concept is taken ↗Even free itch.io prototype exists with the math-army gate premise ↗