While many additional gameplay conceits are unveiled during play, the core focus of We. The Revolution places the player in the role of a judge hearing cases and doling out sentences based on the evidence and testimonies provided. While at first this gains increasing complexity through the inclusion of a great density of information scattered across various bodies of text, eventually the player has to incorporate their understanding of how the jury, and eventually, the larger populace, feels about the defendants in each instance, with the consequences for going against them too often leading to their own incarceration or death. This, over time, slowly changes the onus of the trials from exercises in finding the truth, to determining how to best walk the tightrope of following the law and following the crowd, with neither option being truly blameless.
