Reversed Front: Dear Revolutionaries

Reversed Frontline

Player Quantity	1－4（can extend to 9 when using two boxes of games）
Suitable Age	15+
Complexity	High
Strategic Portion Ratio	High
Gaming Duration	80 minutes
Needed Skills	Strategy, Tactics, Negotiations

Reversed Front: Dear Revolutionaries was a board game created by ESC Taiwan in 2020. Due to the fact that it has already gathered more than 20 million during the initial crowdfunding stage, it has since then became a major focus of the gaming community. It is played by acting as different powers of East Asia and opposing the rise of the People's Liberation Army.

Different powers

The official release of the standard positions of different powers. The green and yellow ones on the right- down corner are Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively.

In the game, players can act as different authorities in the East Asia region.

Available authority	Source position of initiation	Specialty
Red Force	Beijing	Strongest in strength and capability. With special power to distract others in game, but is surrounded from all directions, hence requires careful planning of power distribution.
Taiwan	Taipei	With abundant resources and ability in terms of supporting others. However, appeasement is apparent and internal conflict is obvious. The Red Force can access this vulnerability to attack from the inside.
Hong Kong	Victoria	Good at forming organizations, finding external assistance, and spreading information. Can migrate authority to places like Taiwan, United Kingdom, the United States, etc.
Tibet	Dharamsala / Dehradun / Chushul	Maintains close relations with India and receives substantial Indian support. Has two strategic options: the Central Tibetan Administration, which cannot use force but excels in propaganda; or groups like Four Rivers and Six Ranges and the Special Frontier Force, which rely on Indian backing and are more militant, able to confront the Red Army.
Uyghurs	Istanbul/Almaty/Munich/Washington, D.C.	Skilled at using military strength to destroy enemy operations, but less capable of establishing organized movements within the Great Firewall (i.e., inside China).
Manchuria	Tokyo/San Francisco/Vladivostok	Enjoys greater freedom, with the option of collaborating with various foreign allies (East Asia, Anglo-American powers, or Europe), allowing for diverse strategies.
Kazakhs	Almaty	Representing both Eastern and Western Turkic Kazakhs, they possess a unique victory condition—the "Three Districts Revolution." Their potential for development is stronger outside the firewall, with more flexible tactics.
Mongolia	Ulanbaatar/Tokyo/New York City	Backed by Russia and in direct confrontation with the Red Army. Excels in stronghold warfare, particularly in blocking enemy actions during territorial conflicts.
Anti-CCP Dissidents	Based in various Chinese cities depending on the faction	A vast array of groups including reformists, republicans, federalists, neo-leftists, Falun Gong, democracy activists, gender revolutionaries, underground churches, as well as regionalist movements from areas like Wan, Wu-Yue, and Bashu, and ethnic groups like Hui and Miao. Though confined in hostile territory and with limited mobility, they can share networks and mutually support each other with Taiwanese and Hong Kong organizations.

Players acting as Taiwan can decide on multiple routes for global diplomatic development (with respective changes since then):

• Pan-Green Coalition (Green Route) : Export Taiwanization, assist Chinese provinces on gaining independence, assist multiple anti-communism initiatives, and export party-external movement experiences.
• Pan-Blue Coalition (Blue Route) : "Free China", namely reviving all the organizations supported by the Republic of China in the early past and trying to support Anti-communism in China and all over the places.

Global Superpowers

• Northern Commonwealth——Mongolia, Turk, and Russia, are relatively well at infiltrating and espionage.
• Anglosphere Commonwealth——Commonwealth of Nations and the United States, at the center of world economics, providing funding opportunities.
• Japanese Monarchy and Corean Confederation——Japan and South Korea, wealthy in cultural development and strength, can assist others in developing underground bodies.
• Nusantarian League——Vietnam, Philippines, and other Southeast Asia nations. Located at the hub of transportation, can bonus the players within in terms of operation efficiency.
• 印度——印度、不丹、尼泊爾等國，人多勢眾、勢力龐大，擅長牽制對方。
• 天方——巴基斯坦、阿富汗延伸到阿拉伯、土耳其等一系列伊斯蘭教國家，提供軍事支援，破壞對手行動。
• 歐洲——德國、法國等歐洲國家，民主文化的發源地，思想匯集，能幫助宣揚理念。

Related Development

• Steam game: The PC version's servicing page has been upped on Steam, though the exact content is still being developed.
• Mobile Game development: It was declared on November 9, 2022, that the mobile game version is now in the internal test phase. Then, it was announced the start of pre-register. Official external testings were initiated on January 26 of 2025 with official release being scheduled for April 5 of the same year. During the period, the official website received eight DDoS attacks from People's Republic of China. On April 5, the day of release, the game experienced another series of DDoS attacks, with the game server being flooded and blocked from service. Hence, the release has been put off.

Media Reception

• Global Times:The game implanted theories of Taiwan independence movement and Hong Kong independence movement within, inflicting negative development towards teenage development.
• SET News：Reported on views of the Taiwanese Internet community, namely "a nation of 1.4 billion threatened by a board game" and "thankful to the free advertisements of Global Times". It then reported that the game had been sold for some 4000 a piece in the black market.

External links

• Official Website