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%, Management 15.6%, Turn-Based 13.3%, Noir 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Set in 1920s Chicago, this strategy game lets you build a criminal empire through speakeasies, racketeering, and turn-based combat.

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 54%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Turn-Based 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar Prohibition-era setting where you manage a gang, build businesses, and expand your territory through crime.

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 27.1%, Management 21%, Economy 20.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Build a massive logistical network for smuggling and production while laundering money in a fictional 1980s drug empire.

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 29.3%, Economy 24.1%, Capitalism 14.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an extensive business simulation where you build various storefronts, manage supply chains, and grow a commercial empire.

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 32%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 13.7%, Economy 12.9%, Capitalism 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines legitimate front-business management with an underlying illegal narcotics trade and production empire.

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 39.1%, Economy 18%, Management 18%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the intricate production chains of brewing and distilling moonshine in the American countryside.

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 18.9%, Management 16.5%, Grand Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based 13%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you run a shady financial institution, funding illicit operations and manipulating the economy from the shadows.

Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.

Why similar: Management 28.8%, Strategy 27%, Crime 19.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the business and logistical challenges of cultivating, producing, and distributing an illicit substance within a complex market.

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 54.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Sandbox 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself in the gritty day-to-day operations of growing a drug distribution network from scratch.

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 38.3%, Turn-Based 22.5%, Management 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the criminal underworld of London with turn-based strategy and management mechanics focused on organized crime.

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 23.5%, Resource Management 17.6%, Economy 15.1%, Historical 10.8%, Capitalism 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to manage a business enterprise, balancing resource delivery, staff, and market demands.

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 39.9%, Resource Management 17%, Management 16.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game where you run an underground criminal business starting from a simple basement operation.

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 25.3%, Economy 23.7%, Resource Management 21.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Capitalism 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep resource management and complex supply chain simulation mechanics for aspiring tycoon players.

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 19.4%, Economy 15.9%, Management 15.1%, Historical 15.1%, Resource Management 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers hyper-detailed economic planning and supply chain management for players who love intricate logistical systems.

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 21.9%, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Management 11.5%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic simulation game about gaining wealth, manipulating markets, and wielding influence from behind the scenes.

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 29.7%, Turn-Based 26%, Management 18.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Noir 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical strategy and resource management with a dark, crime-focused narrative and corruption mechanics.

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 27.3%, Economy 19%, Resource Management 17.2%, Capitalism 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation about building a business empire and optimizing workspace efficiency.

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 22.6%, Resource Management 18%, Economy 17.8%, Capitalism 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building production lines and managing a retail shop for specialized, crafted goods.

Build a criminal empire from the streets up. Commit crimes in third-person, run and automate illegal businesses, recruit your own crime family, fight rival organizations, and take control of a seamless open-world city.

Why similar: Crime 40.8%, Resource Management 16.7%, Management 15.1%, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to establish territory, control assets, and expand a criminal syndicate in an open world.

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: Management 20.3%, Economy 20%, Grand Strategy 14.2%, Capitalism 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A business management game where you start small and scale up a local studio into a market giant.

Computer Tycoon is a highly 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 18.4%, Economy 15.1%, Management 13.1%, Historical 12.6%, Resource Management 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic grand-strategy management game about taking a fledgling technology company to global dominance.

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 23.6%, Economy 19.4%, Resource Management 19%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends economic management and strategy with a narrative-driven detective investigation.

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 41.1%, Economy 17.5%, Management 13%, Resource Management 10.5%, Capitalism 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game centered on trading, managing risk, and building a localized drug trafficking business.

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1%, Economy 15.6%, Management 15.3%, Historical 15.2%, Resource Management 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy and base-building game focused on maritime trade and criminal enterprise logistics.

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

Why similar: Crime 47.2%, Economy 16.2%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in control of managing production lines and distribution networks for an underground criminal empire.

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 34.8%, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.2%, Historical 11.7%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the management of a hidden Prohibition-era bar and serving illicit clientele.

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

Why similar: Turn-Based 19.8%, Economy 16%, Management 13.5%, Capitalism 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on strategic market competition, production chains, and building a manufacturing empire.

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

Why similar: Management 27.1%, Resource Management 20.1%, Economy 19.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulator emphasizing layout design, economy, and attendee satisfaction.

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 26.7%, Management 24.8%, Economy 11.6%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A resource management and facility-building simulation centered around running a complex institution.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Simulation 92.9%, Singleplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management and survival game set in a dystopian Britain dealing with bureaucratic survival and underground economies.

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 35.8%, Management 14.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Economy 8.2%, Strategy 7.4%

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 21.2%, Management 21%, Economy 19.2%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%

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 25.5%, Economy 23.5%, Management 22.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%

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 23.8%, Management 23.6%, Economy 23.2%, Procedural Generation 15%, Strategy 8.5%

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 28.5%, Economy 19.7%, Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 8.4%

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 19.5%, Management 19.5%, Capitalism 14.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%

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 69.3%, Simulation 30.7%

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 28.3%, Management 23.1%, Historical 14.9%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 13.2%

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 23.6%, Management 16.9%, Economy 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

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 43.3%, Turn-Based 22.6%, Noir 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Strategy 9.2%

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 53.2%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 5.9%, Capitalism 5%, Sandbox 4.9%

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 30.1%, Economy 22%, Resource Management 21.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 29.8%, Management 24.9%, Economy 21.7%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 5.5%

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 19.3%, Resource Management 16%, Economy 14.9%, Historical 14.8%, Management 14.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Resource Management 25.6%, Economy 22.4%, Management 22.1%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 11.4%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Resource Management 24.8%, Management 19.7%, Economy 16.5%, Capitalism 12%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 20.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, Historical 14.4%, Management 13.8%, Economy 13.6%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Resource Management 22.1%, Economy 19.7%, Management 17.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Historical 15.2%

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 32%, Economy 28.5%, Capitalism 13.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.4%, Economy 20.9%, Management 19%, Capitalism 10.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 34.7%, Economy 32.3%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 10.4%

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: Resource Management 19.8%, Management 19.4%, Economy 18.8%, Historical 15.4%, Strategy 10.3%

Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies and reach the goal of each scenario.

Why similar: Management 36.8%, Economy 31.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Inventory Management 7.1%

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 61.5%, Strategy 24.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Singleplayer 2%

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 27.4%, Economy 22.5%, Turn-Based 11.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Capitalism 10.4%

Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

Why similar: Management 32.2%, Economy 23.2%, Resource Management 16.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.1%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Historical 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

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 18.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Economy 15.2%, Management 14.9%, Historical 14.4%

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 23.4%, Management 23.4%, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Capitalism 13.6%, Strategy 8.2%

Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.

Why similar: Management 20%, Economy 19.6%, Resource Management 19%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 9.9%