Slowmarch

Real-time story games about the great lives of history

Slowmarch

History, one hour at a time.

Give the orders. Wait for the messengers. An hour of your day is ten minutes of theirs, and every choice is yours, until history tells you what really happened.

No password. No app store. It runs in your browser and on your home screen.

The game on a phone: General Dugommier asks Buonaparte whether to attack Toulon tonight, in the storm.

How it works

A story that keeps going when you put your phone away

I

Step into a life

See the night through their eyes. Characters speak to you, and they wait for your answer.

II

Time runs with yours

An hour of your day is ten minutes of theirs. When someone needs you, they send word.

III

See what really happened

Afterwards the seal breaks: was your order historical, plausible, daring or free?

“Commander, the first column has broken. The reserve is ready. If we do not go now, the night is lost.”Captain Muiron, 01:30 · Episode I: Toulon

On this day

1907

Jettingen

Claus von Stauffenberg is born.

Valkyrie · Claus von Stauffenberg

The week ahead in history

The next march

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16 December, 18:00

Play it on the night itself

Toulon fell on 17 December 1793. Start the siege on the evening of the storm, 233 years later, and live it hour by hour.

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