StrategyFit check
Is The Masterplan worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want squad-based heists with stealth and combat options
- Fans of sandbox missions who prefer choosing how to approach each target
- Players who enjoy managing a crew across a persistent campaign
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a linear campaign with fixed solutions rather than mission-by-mission approach choices
- Players who prefer uninterrupted action instead of planning, slow-motion commands, and crew management
- Players looking for a setting outside 1970s criminal heists
Our take on The Masterplan
The mastermind framing emphasizes control, but the campaign also depends on keeping crew members alive, managing equipment, and reacting when police arrive. The advertised freedom of approach therefore sits alongside consequences that can turn a planned operation into a firefight.
What is The Masterplan?
The Masterplan is a top-down tactical heist game set in the 1970s.
Players direct a squad through 20 hand-crafted heists in a persistent career, hiring crew members and equipping them between missions. Each location supports loud, stealthy, or mixed approaches, with systems for threatening civilians and guards, using disguises, disabling electrical systems, carrying bodies, and deploying weapons such as pistols, bombs, shotguns, and tranquilizer guns. On-demand slow motion provides time to plan and issue orders. Missions can turn into firefights when police arrive, while keeping crew members alive and securing loot remain part of the objectives. Eight additional challenge maps are available through Steam Workshop, which also supports player-created heists.
How The Masterplan plays
- 01Persistent Career
- Crew members can be hired and equipped between the 20 campaign heists.
- 02Multiple Heist Approaches
- Missions support stealth, direct attacks, or combinations of both.
- 03Slow-Motion Planning
- On-demand slow motion creates time to plan actions and issue squad orders.
- 04Civilian Control
- A threaten system lets the squad control civilians and guards at gunpoint.
- 05Environmental Tactics
- Disguises, body concealment, and electrical-system sabotage provide ways to manage infiltration and detection.
- 06Workshop Content
- Steam Workshop provides eight developer-made challenge maps and tools for player-created heists.
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The Masterplan: platforms & release
Is The Masterplan worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want squad-based heists with stealth and combat options. Skip it if: players seeking a linear campaign with fixed solutions rather than mission-by-mission approach choices.
Where can I download The Masterplan?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Masterplan's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Masterplan on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
