CityRoamers

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Reach each marker. Stop inside it when the job says so. Every impact costs you money. This page is the whole manual — controls, the screen, scoring, the city, the police, the radio and every setting.

In the car

Action	Desktop	Touch
Steer	A D or ← →	◀ ▶
Accelerate	W or ↑	▲
Brake, then reverse	S or ↓	■
Handbrake / slide	Space	HB
Steer by mouse	hold click and move	—
Recover: upright, on a road	G or R	↺
Get out	E	E

On foot

Action	Desktop	Touch
Walk	W A S D	◀ ▶ ▲ ■
Run (hold)	Shift	RUN
Take a car	E near it	E
Get unstuck	G or R	↺

Combat — on foot only

Action	Desktop	Touch
Fire the pistol	F	FIRE
Reload	automatic when empty	automatic when empty
Wanted level	+1 per pedestrian, +2 per officer. Decays one star every 18 quiet seconds
Police response	Above zero stars, patrol cars abandon the road and come straight for you

Finding your way

Action	Desktop	Touch
Map	M	MAP
Camera view	V	VIEW
Radio station	B	RADIO
Pause	Esc	❚❚

Reading the screen

Objective panel	Top left. The job name, what to do next, distance, time left and impact count.
Compass arrow	Points at your next objective relative to the car, not north. If it swings, keep turning until it sits at the top.
Speed and gear	Top right. An R badge lights while you are actually travelling backwards.
Minimap	Below the speed. Streets around you, your heading, and markers for jobs and landmarks.
Station	Radio station name. Shows “Radio off” when the radio is silent.
Ammo	On foot only. Rounds left out of twelve.
Wanted stars	Appears once police are interested. Five stars, filled and hollow.
Edge hint	Appears outside the bypass: which compass direction town is in.
Control strip	Bottom left. Dulls itself once you are moving, to stop crowding the road.
fps	Bottom right, desktop only. Useful for judging whether a setting is costing you frames.

Jobs and scoring

There are 17 jobs across 5 chains. Within a chain the next job unlocks when you finish the one before it; the first job of every chain is open from the start. Locked jobs stay visible on the board so you can see what is coming.

A job gives you a set of objectives in order — drive to a place, pick something up, stop inside a marker, lose a follower, and so on. The panel tells you which one you are on. Some objectives need you to stop inside the ring, not just drive through it.

Your payout starts at the job's value and is reduced by every impact and by time wasted. Hit nothing and finish quickly and you get the full amount. Finish a job without a single impact and you are more likely to roll a clean-driving bonus.

Best score	Kept per job in this browser. Beating it shows a star on the result screen.
Reward roll	After a completed job there is a chance of a small bonus — most runs get nothing extra, which is what keeps a bonus worth having.
Streak	Consecutive days with a finished job. Shown on the landing screen; it is a nudge, not a lock.
Daily route	One suggested job picked from the date, so everyone gets the same one that day.
Free Roam	No timer, no objective. The whole map, the ramps and the radio.

The city

The map is a rectangle, roughly 1.4 km across. In the middle is the core: an eight-by-eight grid of blocks with the tallest towers downtown. Around it runs the bypass, a straight-sided ring road. Outside that is countryside, then an outer rectangle of lanes, and finally a wall on three sides with the sea on the fourth.

Downtown	Centre. Tall buildings, tight streets — the hardest place to drive fast.
Offices	Mid-rise. Wide avenues, good for keeping speed up.
Residential	Low terraces. Narrow, but few obstacles.
Industrial	South-east. Wide sheds, long straights, rough edges.
Recreation quarter	Skate park with launch ramps, two open tunnels over real roads, and the swing — hit its plinth above 26 km/h and you will be thrown into the air. That one is deliberate.
Countryside	Hedgerows, tree-lined lanes, farms, and fourteen ponds you cannot drive into.
The coast	South edge. Beach, a timber pier with a T-head, and two moored boats.
Airfield	North-west. Runway, hangar and a control tower; the easiest landmark to navigate by.
The wall	Concrete parapet with a yellow hazard band on the north, east and west edges. If you can see it, you are at the edge of the map.

Map markers use shape as well as colour: a ring is a job, a square a garage, a triangle a park, a diamond a district. The legend sits under the map on a wide screen.

Wanted level

Shooting raises a wanted level: +1 per pedestrian hit and +2 per police officer. Above zero stars, patrol cars stop following the road and drive straight at you.

Stars decay by one every 18 quiet seconds with no further incidents. There is no way to clear them instantly, so the practical answer is to drive away and stay away. The siren you can hear is your own wanted level, not a nearby car.

Radio and sound

There are ten radio stations, all synthesised live — nothing is downloaded and nothing is streamed. Each has its own tempo, key, chord progression, drum kit and melody. Cycle them with B or the RADIO button.

In the car	The radio plays. There are ten stations plus “off”.
On foot	The radio is silent — it is a car radio — and a roaming theme takes over: a four-bar loop with a chord progression, a walking bass line and a melody. It is not a station, it has its own volume, and it stops when you get in the car.
Engine and tyres	Pitch follows engine speed; tyre noise follows slip, so a slide is audible before it is visible.
Siren	Volume follows your wanted level, fading in as a chase starts.

Settings

Four volume sliders, independent of each other. They multiply, so master at 50% halves everything. All of it is saved in this browser.

Master	Everything. Start here.
Radio volume	The ten stations only.
Effects volume	Engine, tyres, impacts, footsteps, gunshots, sirens, the city hum.
Walking music	The roaming theme only. Set to 0 to walk in silence.
Impact camera shake	Turn off if the judder on a collision bothers you.
Car paint	Nine swatches on the pause screen. “Original paint” restores the car's own colour.
Reset all data	On the Scores screen. Clears best scores. Does not clear settings.

When it goes wrong

Nothing happens to your car automatically. If you land on the roof or wedge against a ramp, you decide when to be recovered.

Car flipped or beached	G, R, or the ↺ button. Puts it upright on the nearest clear road — not where it was, which is the point.
Wedged on foot	The same key. Moves you to clear ground instead of leaving you between a wall and a kerb.
Lost	Outside the bypass a hint tells you which way town is. The map on M shows everything.
Game went black	An error panel appears with a reload button and the first line of the fault. Settings and scores survive it.
No sound	Audio needs one click or key press before the browser allows it. Check the master slider first.

Tips

• The arrow points at your next objective, not at north. The minimap shows the streets around you; the full map on M shows the whole city with every job, garage, park and district labelled.
• Out of town? A line appears under the map telling you which compass direction town is in. The map is walled on three sides and the sea is on the fourth, so you cannot fall off it.
• Stuck, flipped, or beached on a ramp? Press G (or the ↺ button on a phone) — the car is put back on its wheels on the nearest clear road. Nothing happens automatically; the recovery is always yours to call.
• Holding the handbrake cuts rear grip — useful for tight city turns and for setting up a slide.
• Get out with E: you can walk, scout, climb and shoot, but jobs need the car. Your car is marked with a blue beam while you are on foot.
• Landscape is the better way to play — turn your phone sideways for a wider view of the road. Portrait works too, the camera just sees less.
• Score is payout minus penalties for impacts and wasted time. Clean driving pays.

Changelog

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How the game has grown. Newest first.