City of Gangsters

About

City of Gangsters drops you into 1920s America where bootlegging is the only path to wealth. You start with nothing but a name and a plan, building speakeasies, distilleries, and smuggling routes to fund your empire. Manage supply chains, bribe cops, and outmaneuver rival gangs in a turn-based strategy that blends resource management with criminal ambition. Every decision impacts your reputation and survival as you escalate from small-time operator to city boss. The game thrives on its detailed systems for production and faction interactions. Players track police heat, crew loyalty, and market demand while balancing violent takeovers with quiet deals. With over 30 hours of playtime reported by early adopters, the depth of its economic mechanics and branching story paths set it apart from typical crime sims. No two playthroughs feel the same as shifting alliances and random events reshape the underworld.

Storyline

The year is 1920, the start of Prohibition in the USA. With congressional action, a huge segment of the national economy becomes illegal overnight: bars and saloons are ordered to close, distilleries and breweries go quiet, distributors shut down. But a new era is dawning: a gilded age for smugglers, black markets, illegal manufacture, and organized crime. This is where you come in. You're a new arrival in the city at the dawn of Prohibition, with ambitions of striking it big. Behind many of the city's facades, people are building makeshift distilleries, secret loading docks, nighttime speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be yours. But think beyond making a quick buck or two. You gotta be thinking ahead. You gotta be thinking bigger. Much bigger.