Surveillance State
The game's icon: an eye in a gunsight, over the words Surveillance State

An arcade getaway shooter

SurveillanceState

Shoot the cameras. Get away.

You are in the passenger seat. The driver has the wheel. Everything on the roadside is trying to work out who you are.

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No ads. No accounts. Nothing collected.

The game never connects to the internet. Your scores and unlocks stay on your device and go nowhere else. Read the privacy page.

What is in it

Surveillance State is an arcade getaway shooter. Tap to shoot the plate readers, face scanners, gunshot mics, bluetooth sniffers and gait trackers before they finish scanning you. Get scanned twice and the goon squad comes up behind you in an SUV. Then the top hats roll through, and they are the ones you came for.

  • Four story levels and seven more places to clear: a fusion center, a superstore, mansion row, a county road, a country club, a data farm in the desert, and low orbit. See the levels.
  • A ring announcer who calls every hit.
  • Twelve guns, from an M1 rifle to a drum-fed SMG, and a zapper for the drones. See the guns.
  • Thirteen rides, from a ’71 roadster to a lifted dually. See the rides.
  • Four difficulty settings. Easy fires for you. Legendary leaves almost no margin.
  • Play upright or sideways. Works with no connection.

Step one: lose the phone. (The one in the game.)

The driver at the wheel of the yellow roadster, in sunglasses and a bush hat with a feather, the passenger beside him

The man in the hat

The driver. He has no name. He wears a soft bush hat with one side rolled up and a feather in the band.

The man in the hat represents all of us.

You are not him: you are the passenger.

The Mass Surveillance Maryland mark: a white eye with a red pupil on black

What we are about

People who work in media have a responsibility to keep our technology from being abused.

That is why this game exists. It is satire, it collects nothing, and the machines in it are real kinds of equipment. See what they do.

Next: the patent watch. We plan to read the patent filings and model what is coming.

Surveillance State is made by Thompson Sky Productions, the people behind Mass Surveillance Maryland.