No Plan B

No Plan B is a close-quarters tactics game developed and published by GFX47. It entered Steam Early Access in December 2021 and reached version 1.0 in April 2024 on Windows. You never control a firefight directly: you study a 3D map of a building, draw routes for each operator, and line up door breaches, grenade throws and room entries on a timeline. When the plan is ready you press play and watch it run in real time, with enemies reacting to what they see.

There are four factions, SWAT, FBI, robbers and gangsters, each with its own scenarios such as hostage rescue, escort, bank robbery or eliminating a target. The main mode is a roguelike campaign with a branching mission map, squad progression, unlockable weapons, shields and grenades, and an optional permadeath setting. There are also skirmish missions, a survival mode, a random mission generator and a built-in editor for community missions.

The daily challenge sits in the single missions menu. For each faction there is a daily, a weekly and a monthly challenge mission. The developer explained on the Steam forum that these missions are generated, with one common map for all players per day, week or month, so everyone plans against the same building and the same objective. Since the 2023 progression update, the score of your first try on a mission is the one that counts for the leaderboard, and rankings are split by difficulty and squad options so you are only compared with players on the same settings.

Update 1.2 in August 2025 added a new batch of skirmish missions, one for each faction's scenarios, and a paid DLC, No Plan Z, that turns enemies into fast, numerous infected who charge the squad or spit from a distance. Zombie mode can be switched off in the squad settings, and the base game's challenges work without the DLC.

That makes the daily a short test of planning rather than reflexes: one fresh building a day, a first attempt that sets your rank, and a leaderboard showing how others handled the same doors and corners.