Strategist

Strategist is a single-player heist puzzle game about planning routes, timing and coordinating two specialists. You study architectural plans, then send Rook and Wren into a furnished 3D scene to carry out the job. The aim is to create an opening, complete the heist and get both crew members out without being caught.

Plan the heist

Study patrol routes, camera coverage and security schedules. Assign routes to Rook and Wren, place their actions on a shared timeline, and adjust the timing by dragging the edges of waits. You can move through the plan to see where each crew member will be at any point. If security catches you, revise the plan and try again.

Rook handles the technical work, while Wren takes the target. Their actions must fit together, so you need to coordinate their routes and timing. Plans can be edited, waits adjusted, actions undone and completed plans saved. An interactive tutorial and optional hints are available; cleared levels record whether you used hints.

Five chapters

The 50 handcrafted levels span five chapters, each set in a different world: the warm shops of the Old Quarter, the industrial Docks, the elegant Heights, the Civic Quarter and the colder facilities of Northstar. Each chapter introduces new complications and builds toward more demanding combinations.

Security systems

The heists include patrols, cameras, timed lasers, keycards, pressure floors, motion detectors, microphones and sweeping scanners. The game presents its plans on white-on-blue architectural layouts, with low-poly 3D environments and a physical blueprint planning room. Everything needed to solve a puzzle is available from the start; there are no equipment purchases or upgrade grind.