Without a Trace

An old-school cyberpunk tactics game played entirely through a fictional operating system. No world to explore, you work remotely, controlling everything through your cyberdeck: home screen, contacts, chats, apps, and grids.

Tactics for battles, puzzles for hacking, power-ups as add-ons, and word scrambles for decryption. Built for vertical play and bite-sized sessions, whether you’re on the bus, in bed, or, let’s be honest, on the toilet.

It’s about rebels against an evil tech/corpo/government machine, a story that’s been told a million times, but it’s a good story so sue me. Please don’t sue me.

The demo is available for testing below. Please send feedback to hey@grimpixels.com

HOW TO PLAY

LAST UPDATES

15 Sep 2026

There is an intro now: the logo, then the cover, then the machine boots. It plays once, on a new game.
Everything reacts. Screens flick over like hardware switching channels, a packet snaps into the grid, a cleared line flashes and scatters, and getting shot moves the whole device a pixel.
The cyberdeck and the break-in screen each explain themselves the first time you open them, in four lines, once.
Nobody dies. Anyone who goes down stays down until somebody walks over and picks them up, on every contract.
Vic will wash your Trace now. Two prices, and they are the only things he will sell you while you are too hot to be let in.
The Trace meter tells the truth above 100%. It used to stop counting at the exact moment it started to matter.
Gamepad has no cyberdeck. Cameras already read him as corp hardware; he did not need the help.