Games Like City of Gangsters

Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.

Why similar: Crime 40.2%, Management 16.1%, Turn-Based 12.9%, Noir 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the Prohibition-era setting and combines turn-based tactical combat with criminal empire management.

Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.

Why similar: Crime 53.9%, Management 14.8%, Strategy 10%, Turn-Based 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a direct thematic predecessor that focuses on building a criminal organization through turn-based strategy and management.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Resource Management 27.9%, Management 20.7%, Economy 20.6%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the logistics and supply chain challenges of running an illicit business in a high-stakes, atmospheric environment.

Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

Why similar: Crime 31.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 13.8%, Economy 13.3%, Capitalism 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a humorous but deep take on managing front businesses to hide illicit criminal activities.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 28.8%, Economy 24.6%, Capitalism 14.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This provides a massive, deep economic simulation where you manage multiple businesses and navigate the complexities of a city economy.

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Crime 39.2%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 17%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the underground management of illegal operations, mirroring the core gameplay loop of starting small and scaling up.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Economy 16.7%, Management 15.8%, Historical 14.9%, Resource Management 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the most complex logistics and supply chain management experience available, perfect for fans of the production chains in City of Gangsters.

The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?

Why similar: Crime 19.2%, Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, Politics 10.9% ★, Management 10.3%, Economy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, complex grand-strategy experience focused on economic power, influence, and corporate management.

Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.

Why similar: Crime 38.7%, Turn-Based 21.9%, Management 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the turn-based tactical side of criminal expansion in 1960s London, emphasizing territory control.

What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system

Why similar: Economy 19.6%, Management 16.6%, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Turn-Based 12.4%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to manipulate global economies and manage financial resources, echoing the strategic economic focus of the seed game.

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 23.1%, Resource Management 18.1%, Economy 15.6%, Historical 10.5%, Capitalism 10%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on managing a business and navigating the social and economic landscape of a city, similar to the management style of the seed game.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Management 24.9%, Economy 24.1%, Resource Management 21.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Capitalism 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the production and distribution chains that form the backbone of a successful management tycoon.

You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!

Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, Simulation 30.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game where you build a city while dealing with rival gangs and criminal sabotage.

Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Crime 29.9%, Turn-Based 25.3%, Management 18.6%, Strategy 16.1%, Noir 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: While from the perspective of law enforcement, it shares the turn-based strategy and management elements within a crime-ridden city.

A unique combination of a business management game and detective novel with elegant graphics in a noir comic-book art style. Experience an advanced business management simulation along with intriguing story set in alternative future of Neo-London.

Why similar: Management 23.5%, Economy 19.8%, Resource Management 19.6%, Strategy 15%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends business management with a noir-inspired narrative, capturing the historical atmosphere of the seed game.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Resource Management 29.6%, Economy 26.9%, Management 22.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes cutthroat market manipulation and economic warfare, which is essential to the City of Gangsters experience.

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 27%, Economy 19.3%, Resource Management 17.7%, Capitalism 10.7%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management tycoon that focuses on scaling a business from a small operation to a massive empire.

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Management 22.4%, Resource Management 18.6%, Economy 18.1%, Capitalism 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a solid management experience focused on production, research, and market distribution.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Economy 27.4%, Management 27.2%, Capitalism 18.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This offers deep, granular management of business operations and logistics that will appeal to fans of complex tycoon games.

Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 13.3%, Historical 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grand-strategy approach to managing a tech company, focusing on long-term economic planning.

Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?

Why similar: Management 27.3%, Economy 22.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based 11.3%, Capitalism 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a deep, complex economic simulation focused on the automotive industry, perfect for fans of granular management.

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Management 29.8%, Economy 22.5%, Resource Management 22%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is entirely focused on the efficiency of production lines, which is a core component of the seed game's gameplay.

Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.

Why similar: Crime 46.8%, Economy 17%, Management 16.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the criminal management aspect, requiring players to handle production, distribution, and territory control.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Resource Management 17%, Economy 15.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: It manages the complex logistics of a facility while dealing with the criminal element, offering a similar management feel.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: Economy 26.3%, Management 23.4%, Politics 16.7% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It balances city-building with political and economic management, often requiring players to engage in shady dealings to succeed.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: Economy 26.9%, Resource Management 19.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Management 8.7%, Historical 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features highly satisfying supply chain and logistics management within a historical setting.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Resource Management 26.2%, Economy 23.9%, Management 22.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the design and management of production chains, which is a key strategic element in City of Gangsters.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 58.8%, Simulation 15.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter in tone, it provides excellent management and layout-based logistics gameplay.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 46%, Strategy 18.1%, Economy 15%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and logistics of building and maintaining a complex structure, requiring careful resource allocation.

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Why similar: Economy 20.7%, Management 20.2%, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Capitalism 13.8%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.

Why similar: Crime 40.1%, Economy 18.1%, Management 13%, Resource Management 10.9%, Capitalism 10.2%

Manage your own speakeasy hidden from prying eyes during Prohibition. Experiment with recipes, perfect the quality of your spirits, and transform your bar into an elegant, unique venue. Combine craftsmanship, optimization, and decoration to offer your guests an unforgettable experience.

Why similar: Crime 34.2%, Economy 14.1%, Management 13.2%, Historical 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%

A clicker/management drug dealing simulator. Get your product cut and wrapped quickly and out on the streets. Build your crew, expand your operation, and climb the supply chain. Stay ahead of the cops, keep your crew in line, or pay the price.

Why similar: Crime 35%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 14.7%, Economy 8.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Why similar: Management 26.8%, Resource Management 20.7%, Economy 19.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW

Why similar: Crime 54.1%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Sandbox 3.9%

Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.

Why similar: Crime 43.7%, Turn-Based 22.1%, Noir 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Strategy 9.4%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.9%, Management 20.7%, Economy 19.6%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Sandbox 10.3%

Rise from street hustler to kingpin in a seamless open-world sandbox with no loading screens. Hustle, manage businesses, build your criminal empire, and outsmart the law in a city that reacts to every move.

Why similar: Crime 49.3%, Management 18.8%, Economy 18.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 4.6%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: Resource Management 24.6%, Economy 23.7%, Management 23.4%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Strategy 8.4%

CoffeeBiz tycoon is a mix of entrepreneurship fun and complicated business simulation. Start your first coffee kiosk, brew, expand, hire, deal with competitors, build a well-known brand, risk, and do everything else needed to build prosperous and profitable business.

Why similar: Management 28.2%, Economy 20.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 8.3%

In POLICE TACTICS: IMPERIO you start your career as an aspiring police chief in Newport Falls, a city that is dirty and corrupt to its core. You are responsible for upholding law and order. Coordinate the emergency vehicles and personnel of the municipal precinct and put a stop to crime.

Why similar: Strategy 69.4%, Simulation 30.6%

We love moonshin’. Now, you get to play a story-rich management game focused on crafting moonshine, brandy, whisky, and vodka. You’ll ferment, distill, then name your booze how you want it. You’ll run that business big. Smart, yet discreetly. Cause ain’t nothin’ illegal... ‘til you get caught!

Why similar: Crime 38.8%, Economy 18.9%, Management 18.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%

Car manufacturing company simulator. Turn-based, fast paced, covers 100 years of automotive history.

Why similar: Turn-Based 18.9%, Economy 16.6%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Capitalism 11.9%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Resource Management 16.5%, Economy 14.1%, Historical 14%, Management 13.8%

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, Management 17.1%, Economy 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.

Why similar: Management 34.4%, Economy 33.1%, Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 10.3%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Resource Management 29.1%, Management 22.8%, Historical 14.6%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 13.1%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: Turn-Based 19.8%, Management 14.3%, Historical 14.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 12.9%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, Resource Management 17.2%, Economy 15.5%, Management 14.7%, Historical 14.2%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Resource Management 16.9%, Economy 15.6%, Management 14.7%, Historical 14.4%

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Resource Management 30.5%, Management 24.5%, Economy 22%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 5.4%

Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.

Why similar: Turn-Based 16.9%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Politics 14.1% ★, Economy 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%

Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Why similar: Resource Management 27.6%, Management 24.6%, Economy 11.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Inventory Management 9%

Start as a street dealer and rise to criminal power — produce and distribute various illegal substances across the dark streets of Hyland Point. Expand your empire by purchasing property, growing your business, acquiring new cars, and building a powerful underground network.

Why similar: Crime 52.8%, Management 18.5%, Resource Management 6.2%, Capitalism 5.1%, Sandbox 4.9%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Resource Management 17.3%, Economy 15.7%, Management 14.8%, Historical 14.1%

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: Economy 20%, Management 19.5%, Capitalism 15%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 11.3%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Resource Management 62.6%, Strategy 24.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Resource Management 25.6%, Management 19.3%, Economy 16.8%, Capitalism 12%, Sandbox 9%

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!

Why similar: Economy 24.1%, Management 23.4%, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, Capitalism 13.7%, Strategy 8.2%

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Management 31.7%, Economy 29.3%, Capitalism 13.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%