No Loose Ends

No Loose Ends is a dark top-down strategy prototype about building connections in a hostile city.

You start with a small crew of randomly generated recruits, each with their own background, personality traits and stats. Send them out to different city nodes, take risks, build influence and manage your underground network as time moves forward.

Every recruit has different strengths and weaknesses — visibility, mental state, fitness and loyalty can affect how useful or risky they are. Missions take time, and your crew may return with results… or eventually, in future versions, not return at all.

This jam version is an early prototype, focused on the core idea:
connections are power, but every connection is also a risk.

Features

• Dark top-down city map
• Recruit system with randomized characters and stats
• Clickable city nodes
• Missions such as Street Work, Scout, Build Connection and Lay Low
• Time simulation with play/pause and x10 speed
• Atmospheric fog/cloud shader
• Node hover shader effects
• Music and UI sound effects
• Basic settings and save/session foundation

Contols

• WASD — Move camera
• Mouse Wheel — Zoom in/out
• Left Click — Select recruits, nodes and UI buttons
• Play / x10 buttons — Control simulation speed
• Gear icon — Open settings/options

This is a rough but playable game jam prototype. Some systems are still experimental, UI is not final, and balancing is very early. The long-term idea is to expand this into a deeper crime/network management game with territory control, HQ upgrades, recruit movement, rival groups, police pressure and more meaningful consequences.