Steam game

VYRÜEL

A real-time espionage and criminal strategy simulation where you deploy influence operations, manipulate political, corporate and criminal factions, and reshape a living London through dynamic territorial control and systemic power shifts.

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By Anthony Haines

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Overview

About this game

In VYRÜEL, you operate as a field agent inside a modern London shaped by competing political, corporate, criminal, media, and intelligence forces.

The game unfolds across two interconnected layers:

Ground-Level Operations

You control a primary agent directly on the city map.

  • Travel between districts and underground transport hubs

  • Meet contacts and unlock mission chains

  • Gather intelligence through surveillance, infiltration, negotiation, or force

  • Discover hidden rival agents operating within sectors

You begin in the dark.

Information must be earned.

Rival operatives are not visible until you build enough intelligence on them. As you uncover more, they are revealed on the map and become actionable targets.

You choose how to handle them:

  • Expose

  • Manipulate

  • Recruit

  • Neutralise

Agents are mortal.

Factions endure.

Strategic Influence Layer

Zoom out and you see London as a living power structure.

Each sector is controlled by competing forces:

  • Government

  • Finance

  • Corporate

  • Intelligence

  • Crime

  • Media

  • Infrastructure

  • Technology

  • Culture

These powers expand and contract over time.

Influence spreads gradually across the city.

Your missions directly affect this balance.

Destabilise a rival and their sector weakens.

Support an ally and their reach grows.

Remove a key operative and a temporary power vacuum forms.

The city responds dynamically.

Team & Progression

You manage a limited network of operatives.

  • Assign agents to specialised roles

  • Build intelligence dossiers

  • Develop operational capabilities

  • Expand into new strategic regions over time

The world does not reset.

Your actions accumulate.

Long-Term Expansion

The transport network connects underground stations and future global hubs.

London is only the beginning.

Core Pillars

  • Real-time faction influence simulation

  • Intelligence-driven agent revelation system

  • Ground-level control with strategic oversight

  • Dynamic territorial pressure between sectors

  • Long-form espionage power progression

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