Basement

About

Run a clandestine drug operation from your uncle’s basement in this management-heavy strategy game. You’ll juggle production, staffing, and black-market sales while dodging law enforcement and rival crews. Each decision affects your reputation, cash flow, and safety. Hire workers to handle tasks, upgrade labs for better yields, and negotiate deals with sketchy partners. As your business grows, so does the heat. Cop raids, gang wars, and random disasters can collapse everything overnight. The tension between expansion and survival creates a gripping experience. Every upgrade and new territory brings higher risks, forcing tough choices when authorities close in or competitors stir trouble. A small but dedicated fanbase praises its gritty realism and unpredictable events. While not a mainstream hit, it maintains a 78% approval rating on Steam. The blend of resource management and high-stakes consequences keeps plays distinct, though the steep learning curve might turn off casual players.

Storyline

Basement is a drug-dealing strategy game where you play a scientist who is forced to do illegal stuff in your basement. Actually it’s all about management. You build your own enterprise producing several types of drugs, find the right place to sell them, invite scientists and security, avoid federal agents and build the most effective company. You start in your own basement. Since the police has no interest in a small dealer, you have the chance to grow. Once your expansion becomes noticeable you’ll be allowed to sell at higher rates, get better workers, upgrade your production and access new technologies. But be careful! This growth will attract the cops. With rapid growth, your enterprise will become fragile. If it survives all the troubles it faces, you will become invincible. Otherwise, you will lose money, workers and respect. While your influence in the city shortens, you risk being imprisoned in the end.