City of Gangsters similar games & best alternatives

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City of Gangsters

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.

What works

  • Deep and addictive resource management
  • Immersive 1920s gangster atmosphere
  • Large procedurally generated maps
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Complex relationship and logistics systems

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and early game tedium
  • Some ui clunkiness and excessive clicking
  • Random map generation can cause unplayable starts
  • Combat is minimal and abstracted
  • Late game micromanagement can be tedious

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Weedcraft Inc

  • Port Royale 2

  • Let's School

  • Songs of Syx

  • The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire

  • KAISERPUNK

Less competitive

Games that feels like City of Gangsters but with less competition against others

  • ALL WILL FALL

  • Before We Leave

  • New Cycle

  • Pharaoh™: A New Era

  • Citystate

  • Citadelum

Less fantastical

Games that feels like City of Gangsters but with less imaginative fiction

  • Rise of Industry

  • Good Company

  • Unity of Command II

  • Railroad Tycoon II Platinum

  • Industry Giant 2

  • Old World

More violent

Games that feels like City of Gangsters but with more combat and destruction

  • Constructor Plus

  • Mob Rule Classic

  • Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

  • Xenonauts 2

  • Xenonauts

  • Pizza Connection 2

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City of Gangsters: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Cooperation, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026