Open Dhaka · ওপেন ঢাকা

Free to play Preview release · 16.12.2026 · বিজয় দিবস

ঢাকা শহর কার, জানস?

Do you know whose city this is?

Welcome to Dhaka

Twenty million people, and every one of them going somewhere. Take a rickshaw down a gali in Old Dhaka, a CNG up Airport Road, a double-decker through the Farmgate jam. Step out. Walk. Pick a fight, or run from one. The street sees you, talks back, and remembers.

The city

Real Dhaka.
Street by street.

Built on the real map of the capital, from the avenues of Uttara to the launch ghats on the Buriganga. Every road, every lane, every roundabout where you'd expect it, and the metro running over it all.

Kilometres of streets
932
Neighbourhoods
20
Metro stations
16

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Choose who you are

  1. Rafi, a Dhaka University student who rides deliveries at night

    01

    RAFI

    রাফি · ঢাবির ছাত্র, রাতে ডেলিভারি রাইডার

    Twenty-one, from a lane in Kazipara, third year of economics at Dhaka University. Days are classes and cha at TSC; from six to midnight he rides orders across Banani and Gulshan to pay for his mother's dialysis. When that isn't enough, he takes the off-app jobs: parcels he's paid never to open.

    আমি রাইডার, ভাই। আমাকে কেউ দেখে না। ওইটাই আমার সুপারপাওয়ার।

    I'm a rider, bhai. Nobody sees me. That's my superpower.
  2. Tanvir in the navy suit of his cover

    02

    TANVIR

    তানভীর · সওদাগরের ছদ্মবেশে এক গোয়েন্দা

    Fifteen years a detective and twice decorated, until he refused to sign a report he knew was a lie. Now a letter of safe conduct and the promise of his rank back send him in alone, after Sultan Bhai. The street knows him as Tanvir Sawdagar, a Dubai returnee in a navy suit.

    ওই গাড়িটার পিছে। ভাড়া যা চান।

    Behind that car. Name your fare.
Sultan Bhai, the godfather of the stands

The street has a boss

Sultan Bhai

সুলতান ভাই

আমার এলাকায় আমার নিয়ম।

My area. My rules.

The godfather of the stands. A "businessman" with a garage in Old Dhaka, a black SUV and friends in high places, he takes a cut of every rickshaw, CNG and leguna stand from Sadarghat to Farmgate. He rarely raises his voice, and never his hands, while his men are there to do it.

His men

  • Sona Sumon সোনা সুমন

    Sultan Bhai's gun, named for the gold chain he never takes off. He draws, aims and warns before he fires.

  • Bulldozer Babul বুলডোজার বাবুল

    Pulled a rickshaw for years before Sultan put him on the line. Now he collects from the men he used to drink cha with.

  • Kasai Mojnu কসাই মজনু

    A butcher's son from Kaptan Bazar. Speaks little, stands too close and hits like a cleaver.

  • TikTok Rony টিকটক রনি

    Nineteen, a pompadour and a scar. His boys on motorbikes film every fight for the channel.

  • Chhuri Kamal ছুরি কামাল

    Works the lanes round Karwan Bazar after dark with a long knife. Shows it before he uses it.

A constable and an inspector of the police Two soldiers of the army

The law

They're watching.

  1. A constable saw that.

  2. Patrol cars, sirens, the whole thana.

  3. Roadblocks ahead. They shoot back.

  4. RAB joins the hunt.

  5. Every gun in Dhaka is looking for you.

Get caught and it's a bribe on the spot or a night in the thana. And at the cantonment gates the army fires its warning shots into the air. Don't make them aim lower.

Rides

If it has wheels,
it's yours.

A battery rickshaw

Battery rickshaw ব্যাটারি রিকশা

The city's own. Narrow enough for any gali, slow enough to see everything.

2 passengers

A green CNG auto-rickshaw

CNG auto-rickshaw সিএনজি অটোরিকশা

Green, caged and unstoppable. Fits through gaps that don't exist.

3 passengers

A leguna

Leguna লেগুনা

The people's minibus: two benches of passengers and a helper hanging off the back.

12 passengers

A delivery motorbike

Delivery bike ডেলিভারি বাইক

Quick, light and always late. The fastest way across a city that never moves.

1 rider

A red double-decker bus

Double-decker দোতলা বাস

Two storeys of red steel. Nothing in the city argues with it.

60 passengers

A motorbike A black SUV A police pickup

And anything you can take

Motorbikes off the kerb, cars at the lights, a police pickup if you're brave. Or leave the wheel to someone else: the metro runs all day over the city.

Arsenal

The street
fights back.

Fists first. Then whatever is to hand. Everything else is cash only, from a shuttered shop in Bangshal. Ask for Kamal.

Time

A day in
24 minutes.

The morning rush, the afternoon heat, the golden hour and the city lit up at night. Then the rain comes in off the river.

Places

From Uttara
to the river.

Preview release

16December
2026

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