Design the lair
Tunnel a volcano. Wall off a research wing. Paint a conference room blood-red because the board meets there. Every corridor, trap, and ventilation shaft is yours.
» Modular · grid-based constructionMastermind.
Build the lair. Train the minions. Steal the moon.
- Genre
- Lair-Builder // Sim
- Engine
- Unity // C#
- Phase
- Incubation · R&D
- Est. Window
- T + classified
Intel Brief
» Read twice. Burn the printout.
Codename MASTERMIND. You are not the hero. You are the quiet voice behind the slow-spinning chair — the hand that drafts the blueprint the spies will spend the next fifteen years trying to redraw.
Carve a fortress into a volcano. Train a cadre of devoted, mostly-competent henchmen. Pay the bribes. Build the laser. Keep the world guessing. Occasionally, steal the moon.
Every game begins with a single locked door and ends with an international incident. What happens between the two is entirely up to you.
Operations
» Standing orders. Re-auth required every 72h.
Train the minions
Recruit from prisons, orphanages, and tech bootcamps. Specialize them into breakers, cyphers, wraiths. Pay them just enough that they stop noticing the trapdoors.
» Class system · morale simInvent bad ideas
Rocket gloves. Mind bees. A gun that, when pointed at a moon, makes it yours. The R&D lab doesn't ask why — only whether the prototype survives its third test.
» Tech tree · chaoticFill the vault
Gold is acceptable. Stolen art is better. The crown jewels of a nation you didn't know existed? Now we're speaking the same language. Every piece has a provenance — and a fence who wants it.
» Economy · heat systemRun the heist
Pick a target. Plan the approach. Dispatch a crew of three to eighty-four. Watch it fall apart in real time and learn which of your minions can improvise. Some of them will not return.
» Tactical · real-time dispatchSurvive the spies
They will come. They are always coming. Feed them decoys. Bribe their handlers. Leak them a story that keeps them reporting back for years. The ones you don't catch become lore.
» Counter-intel · reputationThe Lair
» Surveillance pulls · pre-release footage · not final
Minions & Factions
» Recruited. Conditioned. Occasionally insubordinate.
Breaker
Demolitions · structuralLOY 78
SKL B+
RSK M
Cypher
Signals · intrusionLOY 91
SKL A
RSK L
Wraith
Infiltration · silentLOY 66
SKL A-
RSK H
Obsidian
Enforcer · close quartersLOY 83
SKL B
RSK M
Solder
Gadgetry · R&DLOY 72
SKL A
RSK L
Magpie
Acquisitions · fenceLOY 54
SKL B+
RSK H
Halcyon
Counter-intel · handlerLOY 88
SKL A+
RSK L
Patch
Medic · fieldLOY 95
SKL B
RSK L
Intercepts
» Decoded transmissions · dev log · newest first
Comms
» Back-channel · dead drop · signal only
Accept the dead-drop. Receive transmissions when they decide to leak.
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» Your handle is stored in a cold drawer. Literal or otherwise.