
// heist / time loop / puzzle
Repeat Offender
A one-man crime wave. You have twenty seconds, a dodgy time machine and a crew made entirely of your past mistakes. Record, rewind and pull off the perfect heist.
▶ Launch gameDesigned for mobile, tablet
About the game
Your entire crew is you, twenty seconds ago. Record a useful contribution, rewind, then work alongside cyan echoes that repeat your previous actions. There is no fixed crew limit.
Four playable jobs take you from your first getaway to a corner shop, museum and bank. Hold switches, shift delivery cages, distract guards and get the loot into the van. Every rewind resets the whole building, including the loot, so your crew must finish the job together in one loop.
This development build plays in portrait on phones and tablets, with a forgiving floating movement pad and larger action buttons. Player and cyan echoes share eight-direction walking and pushing cycles, with planted standing and interaction poses. Animated shutters, carrying and rewind effects bring each take to life. Completed jobs, personal bests and settings save on this device; your current echo recordings last until you leave or reload the page.
v1.4 adds a paused planning view, a scrollable crew review, clearer front-facing eyes, richer scenery and distinct job layouts. Grabs align over a short clear distance. The museum display has a visible timed opening; both gallery plates still need to be held.
v1.4.1 adds personal bests for every job, the most time left and the fewest echoes, shown on the job cards, briefings and results screen, plus a jobs-cracked tally on the menu and a finale for cracking all four.
The Pass 05 review build gives the burglar a crouched sneaking stance and the officer an alert, torch-ready stance in all eight directions, with continuous legs whose planted feet hold the floor. Holding cargo or a console uses a two-handed brace. Echoes keep the identical cyan-tinted art.
How to play
- Start with First Offence. Move onto the pressure plate, then rewind to leave an echo holding it while you move the safe.
- Each take lasts twenty seconds. Rewind early whenever your contribution is ready; your echo stays at its final position for the rest of the loop.
- Stand near an object and interact to grab or release it. Interact with a hand console to hold it; moving away releases it. Walk onto floor plates to activate them.
- Echoes replay your inputs. They pass through each other, but moving a physical object across an old route can disrupt your plan.
- Get every piece of loot fully inside the van during one loop. Loot returns to its starting position on every rewind.
- Retry take keeps your saved crew. Undo last echo removes your latest recording. Restart job clears the crew for that job.
- Play on a phone or tablet in portrait. Touch anywhere in the left movement pad and drag, then use the hand and rewind buttons with your other thumb. Turning sideways pauses the heist.
- Use Crew to inspect your saved recordings with the clock paused. View the plan from Pause, then resume the same take. In the museum, watch the display countdown after both plates are occupied.
Credits & rights
© 2026 Tommy Cunningham. Third-party materials retain their own licences.
Original game, interface and generated cartoon artwork made for Repeat Offender.
Anton typeface, © 2020 The Anton Project Authors, bundled under the SIL Open Font License. See assets/ANTON-LICENSE.txt.