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City of Gangsters

SomaSim · Kasedo Games · 2021-08-09

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

City of Gangsters is a Simulation, Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $29.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (73% of 1563 reviews).

54
playing now
73%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (1.2k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

54 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 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

Quietly active
  • · 54 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 66 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (325 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 16,672 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 31k–70k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,563 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$5.99-80%
GOG$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 120 of 164 observed days · $1.34 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23823820212026Week of 2021-08-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

80242026-09-15 00:00 — 39 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 26 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 61 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 40 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 54 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 57 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 52 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 27 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 47 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 57 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 34 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 43 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 62 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 32 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 53 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 71 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 43 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 40 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 52 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 41 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 47 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 48 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 28 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 54 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
27243Aug 2021Aug 2026Aug 2021 — avg 272 · peak 968Oct 2021 — avg 69 · peak 168Dec 2021 — avg 73 · peak 148Feb 2022 — avg 57 · peak 101Apr 2022 — avg 69 · peak 140Jun 2022 — avg 84 · peak 239Aug 2022 — avg 62 · peak 108Oct 2022 — avg 55 · peak 106Dec 2022 — avg 75 · peak 147Feb 2023 — avg 56 · peak 111Apr 2023 — avg 50 · peak 103Jun 2023 — avg 43 · peak 103Aug 2023 — avg 88 · peak 303Oct 2023 — avg 52 · peak 116Dec 2023 — avg 70 · peak 147Feb 2024 — avg 57 · peak 125Apr 2024 — avg 47 · peak 88Jun 2024 — avg 141 · peak 531Aug 2024 — avg 62 · peak 114Oct 2024 — avg 45 · peak 85Dec 2024 — avg 68 · peak 134Feb 2025 — avg 49 · peak 99Apr 2025 — avg 49 · peak 95Jun 2025 — avg 43 · peak 106Aug 2025 — avg 50 · peak 88Oct 2025 — avg 106 · peak 394Dec 2025 — avg 54 · peak 103Feb 2026 — avg 46 · peak 98Apr 2026 — avg 50 · peak 90Jun 2026 — avg 56 · peak 124Aug 2026 — avg 57 · peak 108
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$30.03$4.092021-06-162026-10-142021-06-16 — 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 $29.992026-08-31 — best price $5.992026-09-15 — best price $29.992026-09-30 — best price $5.992026-10-14 — 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

Post-launch support: 9 DLC released, first 2021-08-10, latest 2022-06-15 (Steam store data)

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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