Living-city crime sandbox·In development
Drop into a city that runs itself — residents on real routines, traffic on real lights, day turning to night — as a small-time criminal with designs on the whole map.
The pitch
A crime sandbox set in a city that genuinely runs itself. Into that living, ticking world you drop as a nobody with big ambitions — dealing, recruiting, extorting, and shooting your way toward owning the place. Less scripted action-movie. More a living world you can pull apart and rebuild in your image.
Flagship mode
Drug Wars
Build a criminal empire and take the city block by block — solo against three AI gangs running their own economies and wars, or running a crew with friends.
Citizens have homes, jobs, and daily routines. Cars obey the lights. Night falls and the streetlights come on. The world is doing its own thing — you're the thing that goes wrong in it.
The population is on actual routines in an actual day/night cycle — not crowds that spawn, wander, and vanish.
No omniscient wanted meter. Pull a job with no witnesses and you walk away clean. Get spotted — especially by a cop — and word of who you are spreads.
Slip into a stolen outfit, stick to the shadows where eyes can't reach, or sabotage the grid and drop the whole city into a blackout.
Stay invisible and the manhunt never rises. Lie low after a job and it goes cold. Heat is something you control, not a number that punishes you.
The map
Every district is contested ground. Capture it, fortify it, lose it — and watch the whole map change hands in real time.
Build the operation
Underneath the action runs a real strategy layer: recruit and specialize a crew, run businesses and supply chains, hold territory, and delegate the busywork.
Recruit civilians, promote them into specialists, and put them to work — corner dealers who bank on their own, enforcers who hold turf, couriers who run product (and can be ambushed), and businesses that print money while you're off doing something louder.
Appoint a Recruiter, hand it a strategy — grow the money machine, attack a rival, or fortify your own — plus a budget, and it goes and runs that plan: recruiting, arming up, marching crew where you pointed.
In the middle of a firefight, signal for help — every nearby gun on your side and every allied player comes converging on your position. Reinforcements are a button, not a prayer.
The streets are full of moving traffic obeying the signals. Shoot out a tire and send one careening, or duck behind one mid-shootout as mobile cover that stops bullets.
Make a pact with a rival gang to stop the bleeding — then betray them the moment it suits you.
GTA-style action fused with gang-management strategy. Run the streets and the spreadsheet in the same session — a crime sandbox the genre rarely tries.
The origin
Before the gang war there was the sandbox that started it — the same living city, where the only crime that counts is the one someone sees. Stay in shadow, wear a victim's clothes, kill the power, and the city forgets you were ever there.
The city never stops
Clockwork is in active development. Play the demo, watch the latest footage, and sign the guestbook — leave your email to be first in when the streets open.
On the roadmap — a dynamic street market with prices that swing by neighborhood, deeper drop-in co-op, and apartments your crew actually lives in. Some systems are still being built.