Headcount

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Overview

Headcount is a crowd runner: your squad runs down the track on its own, and all you do is steer it left or right. Every soldier counts, and the number over the squad is your life. Lose the last one and the run is over.

Pairs of gates span the track, each side with a sum on it. Run through one and the sum is done to your squad, so a +40 or a x3 grows it and a -25 or a /2 shrinks it. The squad shoots ahead the whole time, at barrels that hold more soldiers, crates that hold better guns, enemy squads and the boss that waits at the end of every stage. Saws cut down any soldier they touch.

Clear the boss and cross the line to start the next stage, with your squad and gun as they are. Each stage is longer and its sums, enemies and boss bigger. Before a run, pick a difficulty and a scenery. Each difficulty has its own scoreboard; the scenery only changes the look.

Made by: wasmga.me
Released: 2026

Controls guide

Playing

Key	Action
Mouse/touch	Drag left or right anywhere on the game; the squad follows your finger
`Arrow keys`/`A, D`	Steer
`Any key, click or drag`	Start running
`Enter`/`P`	Pause

Setup, pause and game over

Key	Action
`Arrow keys`	Change the choice in a row
`Tab`	Move to the next row or button
`Enter`	Play, or resume when paused
`Controller`	D-pad moves, A picks, Start plays or resumes

Cheatsheet

On the track

Blue gate: Adds to or multiplies your squad
Red gate: Takes away from or divides your squad
Barrel: Shoot it open for the soldiers on its tag; the number on it is the hits it takes
Crate: Shoot it open for a better gun, or x2 for 7 seconds of double fire
Saw: Cuts every soldier it touches; from stage 3 some swing from side to side
Enemy squad: Charges when you come close; each of its soldiers takes one of yours with it
Boss: Fills the track at the end of a stage and knocks out soldiers every second it is close; shoot it down first

Guns

Pistol: What every run starts with
Rifle: Twice as quick
Minigun: A stream of bullets
Laser: Hits twice as hard and goes through a whole squad
Rockets: Slow, but each one blasts a squad hard
Shooters: Up to 40 soldiers fire at once; a bigger squad doesn't fire faster

Points

Enemy soldier: 1 point each
Boss: 25 points times the stage
Stage cleared: 1 point for every soldier who crosses the line

Tips

Shoot a gate with a plus or minus sum before you reach it: every few hits count it up by one, so a -10 can turn into a +5 if you keep firing at it.
Do the sum before you pick a side. With a small squad, +30 beats x2; with a big one, x2 wins by far.
Line up with barrels and crates early. Bullets only reach so far, and a box you run past stays shut.
Go into a boss with a big squad and your best gun. It knocks out soldiers every second it is close, so the faster it falls, the more of your squad crosses the line.