Heist Escape: City Lockdown

Mission briefing

Heist Escape: City Lockdown You've pulled off the heist. Now get out of the city alive. Race your getaway car through busy streets, grab stacks of cash off the road and stay one move ahead of a police force that works as a team. Patrol cars chase you, interceptors cut you off at the next junction, SUVs ram you and vans set up roadblocks, while a helicopter follows you from above with its searchlight. The police don't just chase you, they try to box you in. If they fully surround you, you're BUSTED. But if there's a gap your car can fit through, you can still get away. Push weak patrol cars aside, reverse out of a trap, squeeze through tight gaps or make the police crash into each other. Break free when the capture meter is nearly full to earn a big Escape Bonus. The longer you survive, the harder the chase gets, across 6 pursuit levels. Spend your stolen cash in the garage to unlock 6 getaway cars, from the Starter Compact to a heavy Armored SUV that shoves police aside and the fastest Supercar, and pick a paint color for each. Physics-based crashes: cars, traffic, cones and barriers all react to hits Smart police that flank, intercept, ram and surround you A police helicopter chasing you from the start of every run A large city built from blocks, with parks, parking lots and construction sites Works on desktop and mobile

Field manual

How to Play Goal: Collect as much cash as you can, keep moving and don't get surrounded. Desktop W / ↑: accelerate S / ↓: brake and reverse A D / ← →: steer Space: handbrake (drift) Esc: pause Mobile/Tablet: Move the joystick up to accelerate, down to brake/reverse, and left/right to steer. Move diagonally to drive and steer together. Drag the right side of the screen to look around while driving. The camera smoothly returns behind your car after release. Spend collected cash in the Garage to unlock new vehicles. Tips Drive over the green cash stacks. Gold $100 bundles are worth more but sit in riskier spots. Watch for the SURROUNDED warning. Keep moving and look for an open gap, or ram through a weak patrol car. Breaking out after the capture meter passes 70% gives you an Escape Bonus. When you're busted, you can watch an ad once per run to break out and keep going. Spend your cash in the garage on faster or heavier cars.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Heist Escape: City Lockdown — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Heist Escape: City Lockdown?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Heist Escape: City Lockdown?

Heist Escape: City Lockdown is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Heist Escape: City Lockdown on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Heist Escape: City Lockdown is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.