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. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Cooperation.

Last update: 04/08/2026