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City of Gangsters

SomaSim · Kasedo Games · 2021-08-09

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

33
playing now
73%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

33 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

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 speake(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Top 26% of 6,675 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 31k–70k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,560 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99-80%
GOG$5.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$5.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.65 at GameBillet (2025-12-09) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 86 of 126 observed days · $1.34 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

82322026-08-11 19:00 — 81 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 52 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 50 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 68 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 42 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 55 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 82 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 77 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 50 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 79 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 44 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 54 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 82 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 34 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 48 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 61 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 56 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 53 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 81 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 33 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 43 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 42 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 32 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 45 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 50 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 39 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 64 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 61 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 33 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$30.03$4.092021-06-162026-08-302021-06-16 — best price $25.492021-09-10 — best price $22.492021-11-16 — best price $29.992021-12-05 — best price $29.992022-01-27 — best price $19.492022-03-12 — best price $29.462022-05-05 — best price $29.992022-07-11 — best price $12.742022-08-23 — best price $14.862022-10-20 — best price $17.992022-11-22 — best price $9.892023-01-24 — best price $25.472023-03-13 — best price $8.992023-05-05 — best price $8.992023-06-15 — best price $29.992023-07-30 — best price $6.472023-10-02 — best price $29.992024-01-05 — best price $24.872024-03-26 — best price $29.992024-04-24 — best price $24.972024-06-16 — best price $6.292024-08-02 — best price $5.162024-08-31 — best price $29.992024-11-13 — best price $7.492024-12-20 — best price $5.692025-03-08 — best price $29.992025-05-08 — best price $13.492025-07-23 — best price $29.992025-10-13 — best price $5.992025-12-02 — best price $5.992026-01-09 — best price $4.692026-02-03 — best price $29.992026-03-27 — best price $5.992026-05-11 — best price $5.992026-06-22 — best price $29.992026-07-30 — best price $29.992026-08-30 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
76%
earned "Corner Clout"
18.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing9 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2800%80

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

NoirCrimeEconomySandboxPoliticsStrategyHistoricalManagementSimulationTurn-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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