A real-time game of Cold War espionage. Every agent serves two masters — only one of them is you.
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The Cold War is at its height. Two players, two browsers, one burning question: whose side are these agents really on?
Martha Hurry - Double Agent is a real-time two-player Cold War strategy game, played entirely in your browser — no download or install required. Challenge an opponent from the lobby and fight a shadow war of spies, city revolts, and double-crosses.
One player commands the Capitalist West. The other commands the Communist East. Both of you control the same 26 agents — named Alpha through Zulu after the NATO phonetic alphabet — but neither of you knows the true loyalties of the agents you're commanding. Some of your spies are loyal. Some are working for the other side. And you won't find out which is which until it's too late.
Own 18 of the 28 cities on the world map — or eliminate every one of your opponent's truly loyal agents. Cities change hands through revolt missions. Successful assassinations eliminate agents permanently; failed ones expose your operatives to the other side. Everything costs money, and money comes from the cities you already own.
Each side commands 26 agents ranked 0 to 4. Your rank 4 spy is guaranteed loyal. Your rank 3s? One of them is actually the other side's rank 4. Your rank 2s? Two of them are enemy rank 3s. The deception goes all the way down.
Agents obey the side with the higher rank for them — unless you issue a Mandatory order, which overrides loyalty. But Mandatory orders can force a confrontation, and confrontations reveal ranks. Every bit of information you gain costs something.
Your handler throughout the game is Martha Hurry — the headline character created by the great Australian cartoonist Fred "Cul" Cullen, rendered in his bold, anarchic comic-strip style. She'll brief you, mock you when you lose, and deliver the final verdict at the game's end. (There will be some, shall we say, Martha Hurry "fans" who will be disappointed to learn she does not appear nude in this version of the game. The wowsers got to us.)
In game hints are available by choosing the communist side, and reading the Commissar's Directives. Capitalists are assumed to be able to fend for themselves.