From backlog to the big rain

The last two weeks of final year at Ooru First Grade College. Arjun is short on attendance, long on excuses and helps out at Appa's press, Prakash Printers. It is a small, linear area, used as the tutorial before the open world opens up.

1. 01
   Last Bench

   Late again. Sneak past the gate, find a proxy for attendance and meet Nikhil (topper) and Mani (canteen legend).

   Teaches: Walking, sneaking, talking
2. 02
   Fest Fight

   College fest and student-union election. Chintu, the corporator's nephew, is rigging the vote. Posters turn into a brawl.

   Teaches: Melee, crowd escape
3. 03
   Press Run

   Deliver wedding cards on the family scooter in the rain. Meet Raghav Rao, who owes Appa ₹4 lakh for banners and laughs it off.

   Teaches: Scooter, map, deliveries
4. 04
   Results Day

   One failed paper, a suspension for the fest fight, the placement offer gone and the moneylender takes the press machine. Amma packs his bag.

   Teaches: Story choice tutorial

Act ends Arjun takes the night bus across the city. The open world and the title card appear as the bus pulls into Koramangala.

A shared room in Shobha Aunty's PG, an OotaGo delivery bag and a daily target. Arjun learns the city one order at a time and runs into three people who will change his year: Kavya, Leela and Mani again.

1. 01
   Shobha Aunty's PG

   Ten months of deposit, no guests after nine and a shared room with Nikhil. Negotiate your way in.

   Teaches: Dialogue choices, haggling
2. 02
   First Order

   Sign up on OotaGo. Your first delivery goes to Tower C of Canopy Heights. The lift is broken.

   Teaches: Gig loop, ratings, timer
3. 03
   Wrong Order

   A mixed-up biryani order takes you to Kavya, a photographer documenting the shrinking Sampige Kere. It starts raining.

   Teaches: Relationship system
4. 04
   Meter Mele

   Auto Ramanna teaches you the auto, the meter and the art of "one and a half". Rival app drivers want his stand.

   Teaches: Auto driving, fares, passenger chat
5. 05
   Xerox and Notary

   Leela, a retired land-records clerk, runs a xerox shop and knows every file in the ward office. Get a stolen file back from a land broker.

   Teaches: Stealth, the fixer
6. 06
   Old Friend

   Mani now drives water tankers for Pipeline Putta. Ride along on a summer run that turns into a chase.

   Teaches: Scene meter (wanted level), chases
7. 07
   Ee Sala Night

   A cricket final at the pub, a bet with a rich kid and a drunk Nikhil to get home past a checkpoint.

   Teaches: Driving under pressure, police
8. 08
   The Lake Doesn't Lie

   Kavya shows you men marking the lake bed with survey pegs. Putta's crew wants her camera. Get her and the photos out.

   Teaches: Combat, escape on foot

Act ends Leela looks at the photos: "Someone thinks this lake is worth two thousand crore."

Money gets better and so do the temptations. Nikhil gets Arjun a job at Bhoomi.ai, Tara runs midnight races, Raghav wants campaign boys and Putta pays cash for tanker work. Arjun takes all of it.

1. 01
   Head of Ground Ops

   Bhoomi.ai founder Kabir hires you as "Head of Ground Ops", which means errands. Drive investors around without spilling their cold brew.

   Teaches: Startup satire, office job
2. 02
   Midnight Run

   Tara "Turbo" races the empty Old Airport Road at 2 a.m. Beat her and you earn a seat in her league.

   Teaches: Street racing
3. 03
   Last Call at One

   Meera's gig at a 100 Feet Road pub is about to be shut down by a bouncer gang. Keep the music on until closing.

   Teaches: Bar brawl, nightlife
4. 04
   Tanker Season

   Hijack a rival tanker for Putta. Your cut clears part of Appa's debt. Mani says this is how it starts.

   Teaches: Heists, vehicle theft
5. 05
   Banner Boy

   Raghav Rao appears at a residents' meeting, remembers your father and hires you to run his banner crew overnight.

   Teaches: Crew jobs
6. 06
   Date Night

   Plan a night with Kavya: darshini dosa, a rooftop café or a sunrise ride you promise for later. Your choices count.

   Teaches: Dates, relationship meter
7. 07
   Demo Day

   Bhoomi.ai's land-records AI is quietly rewriting who owns Sampige Kere. Steal the server drive with Nikhil during the demo.

   Teaches: Hacking mini-game, infiltration
8. 08
   Smoke over Seshadripuram

   Amma calls at midnight. Prakash Printers is on fire.

   Teaches: Cliffhanger

Act ends End of the free story. Majestic & Gandhinagar, a ₹199 story area, carries it on.

Arjun goes home. Appa is in hospital, the press is ash and the man who lit it works for Putta. The old city is dense, loud and full of people who knew Arjun as a kid.

1. 01
   Ashes

   Appa in Rain Tree Hospital, Amma at the counter and a match-box found in the rubble.

2. 02
   Majestic

   Chase the arsonist through the bus stand at rush hour, across platforms and bus roofs.

3. 03
   Four A.M. Flowers

   KR Market's flower auction hides Putta's cash collection. Follow the money.

4. 04
   Malleshwaram Morning

   A slow chapter: dosa, errands for Amma and Kavya meeting your mother for the first time.

5. 05
   Silk and Cash

   Rob Putta's cash from a Chickpet wholesale warehouse in the middle of wedding season.

6. 06
   Pipeline

   Break into Putta's borewell depot and flood his own yard.

7. 07
   Brothers

   Mani has to choose between Putta and you. You find out that Raghav ordered the fire.

8. 08
   Exam Hall

   Write your backlog exam while Putta's men wait outside. Pass, then escape.

Act ends Putta falls. Raghav takes over his tankers and offers Arjun a job.

Arjun goes inside Raghav's campaign, maybe to bring him down and maybe because the money is real. The city's power sits in a few square kilometres, and so does Aditya Bhoopathi, MD of Skycourt Group.

1. 01
   The Ticket

   Run rally logistics: buses, biryani packets and a crowd that must look bigger on the drone shot.

2. 02
   Cubbon Walkers

   Morning walkers know everything. Set up a sting between the bandstand and the jogging track.

3. 03
   Black Tickets

   Final at Monsoon Cricket Ground. Get into the VIP box with scalped passes and plant a bug on Bhoopathi.

4. 04
   Skycourt

   Rope down Skycourt City at night and copy the master plan for "Skycourt Lakeview".

5. 05
   Kempu Court

   The lake case is heard today. Get Leela across MG Road to testify while Raghav's men try to stop her.

6. 06
   Counting Day

   Results night. Raghav wins by buying it, and the city celebrates anyway.

7. 07
   Join or Burn

   Raghav offers you his right hand. The first big choice that shapes the ending.

Act ends Whatever you chose, Bhoopathi now knows your name.

Bhoomi.ai raises fifty million dollars from Skycourt Group. Kabir becomes a monster in a fleece vest, Nikhil quits and Leela finally tells the truth about the original lake file.

1. 01
   Series A

   Crash the funding party and walk out with the cap table and a very angry founder.

2. 02
   Gridlock

   An on-foot chase across car roofs through the worst jam on the Outer Ring Road.

3. 03
   Foam

   Bellandur lake catches fire. Pull the evidence boat out through the foam.

4. 04
   Campus Party

   Infiltrate a Whitefield tech-park offsite dressed as the DJ.

5. 05
   Leela's File

   The twist: in 1998, Leela was the clerk who signed the forged lake record. She has been using you to undo it.

6. 06
   Data Centre

   Wipe the forged records from the Electronic City servers before the backup runs.

7. 07
   Groundbreaking

   Sabotage the Lakeview launch ceremony live on television.

Act ends The weather service issues a red alert. Raghav's men have blocked the stormwater drain.

The finale. A planned flood is meant to prove the lake must be "developed". The storm brings the story back to Koramangala, the area every player has already played, now under water.

1. 01
   Red Alert

   Get your people out before the rain: Amma, Shobha Aunty, Colonel Uncle and Biscuit the dog.

2. 02
   Nandi Sunrise

   The ride you promised Kavya. A quiet chapter before the end, which goes differently depending on your choices.

3. 03
   Airport Road

   Bhoopathi runs for the airport. Catch him on the expressway.

4. 04
   The Drain

   Clear the blocked stormwater drain under fire as Koramangala floods.

5. 05
   Boat Auto

   Drive an auto through the flooded streets and rescue residents. This is the set piece players will share.

6. 06
   Namma Uru

   Final showdown at the Sampige Kere sluice gate. Choose an ending.

Act ends Three endings, decided by your choices and your loyalty to Mani, Nikhil and Kavya.