Remember when GTA was played from above? When you could see the whole intersection go wrong: the stolen car, the police cruisers closing in and the tiny gap that might just save you?
That is the feeling behind C.L.T., and Update 0.5.0 is its wildest step yet. Motorcycles tear through traffic. Illegal races take over the streets at night. The police now have stations, battalions and prisons, and they are ready to put you in one.
What Is C.L.T.? A Classic Top-Down GTA Experience, Set in Brazil
C.L.T. is a single-player, top-down crime sandbox inspired by GTA 1, GTA 2 and GTA: Chinatown Wars, set in a satirical take on Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. Now in Early Access for Windows, it was built from the ground up by Uniday Studio.
If you have been looking for a classic GTA-style game, a modern top-down GTA or a Brazilian GTA, this is the game for you:
- Old-school freedom: Steal a car, cause a pileup, ditch the wreck and keep running on foot. Push your wanted level to five stars and face helicopters and the army.
- A new island every time: Random Map mode generates cities, favelas, wealthy neighborhoods, farmland, forests, beaches, rivers and highways.
- Two protagonists: Switch between Jonilson and Daria, each with their own money, weapons, phone and skills.
- Jobs on your phone: Deliver food, drive passengers, work an ambulance or police shift, or turn to the Dark Web for contracts, suspicious packages and races.
- Plenty to drive: Take cars, boats, helicopters and even a tank, then make the situation considerably worse.
🏍️ Motorcycles Hit the Streets
The biggest addition in 0.5.0 is here: motorcycles have joined the traffic, and you can ride them! They range from the little Cegê 160 to the massive Harlei Davidsão cruiser, each with its own engine sound.
Thread the gaps cars can't fit through, but ride carefully. Crash hard and you go rolling down the asphalt, and your helmet makes a real difference when you fall.
🏁 Illegal Street Races After Dark
Open the Dark Web on your phone, book a race and follow the GPS to the starting grid. Late-night races come in sprint and circuit formats, with a scoreboard waiting at the end.
Your rivals put up a real fight. They overtake, brake for corners and recover after a crash, so a win has to be earned.
🚓 A Bigger, Tougher Police Force
Getting into trouble has never had higher stakes:
- New locations: Police stations, battalions, highway patrol posts and prisons, complete with inmates, football, gardens and visits.
- Tougher checkpoints: Blitz checkpoints now have speed warnings, enforcement and more officers.
- Surrender: NPCs you hold at gunpoint raise their hands, and so will you if you get arrested.
💥 More Chaos, More Destruction
- Armed targets: Hit targets now have an armed crew that turns on you.
- Deadlier helicopters: Rotor blades cut through poles, trees and people, wearing out as they go. If they break, the helicopter spins down and explodes.
- Patriotão destruction: The megastore's glass front shatters when shot, and its shelves burst into pieces, dust and flying goods.
- Punchier combat: Gunshots throw smoke, sparks and shell casings, every hit sprays blood, and fistfights come with spoken taunts.
- Better-looking cars: Vehicles have more visual volume and glossier paint. Drifting heats the tires and builds up more smoke, and gas stations put lost doors back on.
- Speed bumps: Take one too fast and your car pays the price.
✨ Improvements
- Cities: Entering a new city uncovers half of its map, along with its icons.
- Beaches: They empty out at night and in bad weather, and people clear out when it rains.
- Traffic: Drivers are smarter, and queues now wait for the signals.
- Characters: Jonilson and Daria have new comic-style portraits.
- Bailing out: Jump from a moving vehicle and your character rolls with its momentum.
- Gamepad: L3 now toggles sprint, and the map cursor can reach every edge of the world.
- Settings: You can now choose your display in the graphics settings.
🔧 Fixes
- Stability: Fixed crashes found in the 0.4.0 crash reports.
- Performance: Favelas and helicopter storm scenes run more smoothly.
- Camera: It no longer lags behind at low frame rates.
- Other bugs: Fixed endless run-overs, shots missing motorcycle riders and problems with exiting vehicles.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is C.L.T. a GTA game?
No. C.L.T. is an independent game by Uniday Studio, and it is not affiliated with Rockstar Games or the Grand Theft Auto series. GTA 1, GTA 2 and GTA: Chinatown Wars are its inspirations.
What is a good game like the classic top-down GTAs?
If you miss the view from above and the freedom of GTA 1 and GTA 2, C.L.T. was made for you. It brings that formula to a procedurally generated Brazilian island, with modern touches like car damage, a day and night cycle and rain-soaked streets.
Is there a Brazilian game like GTA?
Yes, that's C.L.T. It is made in Brazil and set in a parody of Santa Catarina, with favelas, beachfront towers, farmland and plenty of local satire.
Does C.L.T. have a story campaign?
Not yet. The Early Access version includes Random Map mode. The story campaign and the handcrafted map of São Catarino are in development.
Your Next Getaway Car Is Parked Out There
Top-down crime games never stopped being fun. They just needed new streets, and C.L.T. has a whole new island of them every time you start a map.
Play C.L.T. in Early Access now, then tell us what you think using the Enviar Feedback button in the game. Your feedback helps shape what comes next.
