Fight for Housing in Spain with Gall Negre

Barcelona-based publisher Gall Negre ("Black Rooster") has released two games since its founding in 2020, both meant to "provide a critical perspective of the society in which we live, contributing our grain of sand for a radical social transformation", according to its profile page.

La Batalla de Can Vies ("The Battle of Can Vies") is a 2020 wargame set during the conflict that took place in the Sants district of the city of Barcelona when an attempt was made to evict squatters from the CSA Can Vies in May 2014. (According to an article on Squat.net, the Centro Social Autogestionado Can Vies — or Can Vies Self-Managed Social Center — was abandoned by its owners, Barcelona's transport authority (TMB), in 1997 and was subsequently squatted by the neighborhood's youth. Since then, the CSA Can Vies "has become a well-used and well-loved community space providing a variety of services to the people of Sants, a neighborhood with a strong tradition of cooperatives".)

In this asymmetric strategic wargame for 2-6 players, the opposing sides — institutions and social movements — compete against one another by fighting in the streets of Sants to demolish or to prevent the demolition of Can Vies. Simultaneously, they attempt to maintain acceptable levels of popularity throughout the conflict, with the conflict possibly overflowing and spreading to greater Barcelona and beyond.

Choose whether you want to command the police, political, and media forces in charge of the public institutions, or embrace your rebellious heart that wants to co-ordinate the crowd that has gathered in the streets, leading the social movements in this moment of revolt.

La Batalla de Can Vies has been released solely in a Catalan edition, and here's a video overview of the gameplay, presumably also in Catalan:

The other title from Gall Negre is the 3-6 player game Okupa tu també! (which I think translates literally as "Take care of yourself, too!" and figuratively as "Let's squat!"), which was crowdfunded on Verkami in November 2021.

Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:

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Each player is a group that lives in the neighborhood, but the scam of unbearable rents and multi-life mortgages has left you and your people homeless — or at least homeless until now because you have said enough is enough, and you are determined to find a place to live and build your project by whatever means necessary, facing if necessary judges, police, thugs, renters and vulture funds.

In the game you represent one of sic groups: Okupat Social Center, Housing Union, Casal Popular, PAH, Neighborhood Family, or even the Mafia. By drafting cards, you accumulate resources (money, tools, training, and networks) in order to enter and occupy one of the empty houses on the game board. To do this, you need to spend the resources that the housing cards demand. Once inside, you have to resist for as long as possible police and law enforcement in order to try to win the game.

But wait! You can't do it alone. If you want your project to survive thugs and speculators, you need the support of your teammates, either because they're good or because they have no choice. They will give you resources, they will help you to overcome the letters of order and law, and they will (sometimes) even give you their victory points. Resisting an eviction for as long as possible and helping your teammates earns you points, and that will be the key to victory.

This game also has an explanatory video, although again only in Catalan with no subtitles: