InterrOUGation

InterrOUGation is a browser game released during the massive protests that took place in Romania in early 2017. The game begins with the Government about to issue a new emergency ordinance and, "because it is a fantasy game", the player being invited, as the protesters' representative, to negotiations with the president of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), Liviu Dragnea, Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, and Florin Iordache, who was the Minister of Justice when the emergency ordinance which sparked the protests was issued and who eventually resigned. The game is timed, the ordinance being issued if the player fails to obtain a different outcome within 15 minutes.

The player can ask questions and make statements, and a set of four measures are also available at any time, selecting them representing the player making use of their civil society contacts to put pressure on those being negotiated with. Each of the three subjects has values for servility, shame and fear, and the number of people protesting is also being tracked, these values changing according to the player's questions and statements and the civil society measures used, and determining the answers given. If a subject is pushed too hard, he will leave the negotiations and therefore make it impossible to obtain the positive outcome related to him. The discussions take place with each of the three separately, but the player is able to switch between them at will and may also use the answers given by one to influence another.

The game has five possible endings, including the "failure" one, in case the 15 minutes expire without another being obtained. Since being successful in the negotiations with any of the three subjects triggers the corresponding ending, it is not possible to obtain multiple positive outcomes in a single game, finding them all requiring playing the game multiple times.