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City of Gangsters

City of Gangsters

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.

Released Aug 9, 2021 Developer SomaSim Publisher Kasedo Games Platforms Windows CrimeResource ManagementStrategyManagementProcedural Generation
View on Steam ↗ $5.99 (US · as of 2026-10-20)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.

73.1%positive1,563 reviews
Recommended · 106 found this helpful

“I gave this game a serious try because I enjoy strategy games in the gangster prohibition period. I've played: -Gangsters: Organized Crime (my favorite) -Gangsters 2 -Empire of Sin -Omerta: City of Gangsters City of Gangsters (CoG) is what I'd call a 1920's networking &…”

— a player, Steam review · 1,095 hrs played
Recommended · 92 found this helpful

“I wanted to hate this game. I really did. I put off buying it at launch because I found one review that said it was bad, and dismissed it. At the start of the year, I Started comparing it to other games like it and still came up with reasons to dislike this, "It's to…”

— a player, Steam review · 547 hrs played
Not recommended · 423 found this helpful

“City of Gangsters is a game I *WANT* to love, even a game I would play a bit more of in the future. But for every good idea the game has, it makes itself so incredibly frustrating with anti-fun, deliberate limitations and really poor design decisions. I can't recommend it…”

— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

968all-time peak
0 250 500 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 272 avg · Aug 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.

80achievements
14.4%median completion
0.3%rarest: Queen of the City
76.0% of players 45.4% of players 44.8% of players 42.3% of players 40.5% of players 40.5% of players 39.6% of players 39.5% of players 38.1% of players 38.1% of players 34.9% of players 33.4% of players 33.4% of players 31.9% of players 29.8% of players 26.9% of players 26.7% of players 25.3% of players 25.1% of players 24.0% of players 22.7% of players 22.2% of players 21.2% of players 20.7% of players 20.4% of players 20.3% of players 20.1% of players 20.0% of players 19.7% of players 19.6% of players 18.9% of players 18.6% of players 18.4% of players 17.4% of players 16.9% of players 16.7% of players 16.3% of players 16.2% of players 15.4% of players 14.8% of players 14.4% of players 13.8% of players 13.3% of players 13.2% of players 12.9% of players 12.1% of players 11.2% of players 10.1% of players 9.3% of players 8.8% of players 7.9% of players 6.2% of players 6.1% of players 6.0% of players 6.0% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 3.6% of players 76.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
76.0%Corner Clout — Use a favor to get an introduction to someone
45.4%Room in the Back — Take control of a new business
44.8%Copacetic Coordination — Have an alcohol production operation run for a full year without any stalled production
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Queen of the City — Have three legacies locked up at the end of Prohibition in Cincinnati
0.4%High Pillow — Have a train station, a luxury hotel and a union hall inside your territory
0.4%Vehicles to Victory — Have three legacies locked up at the end of Prohibition in Detroit

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$5.99−80% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-10-20 11:41 UTC
$29.99base price
$5.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-27
US5.99 USD−80%
EU5.79 EUR−80%
UK4.99 GBP−80%
Australia8.79 AUD−80%
Canada7.79 CAD−80%
Japan680 JPY−80%
Brazil17.79 BRL−80%
China21.60 CNY−80%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.2 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$6.7

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-20). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-31 08-19 09-09 09-28 10-20

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 01, 2022
Update notes for version 1.4.4

Political tickers relevant to a specific ward now open that ward's interface when clicked. Bug fix: While attempting to start a new game, ethnicity was getting set incorrectly if this was the second n

Jun 29, 2022
Update notes for version 1.4.3

Bug fix: Resolution settings were erroneously forcing refresh rates, rather than defaulting to highest refresh rate allowed by your machine. Bug fix: Pips were sometimes not updating appropriately, le

Jun 22, 2022
Update notes for version 1.4.2

Expand availability of gasoline on some city maps (Chicago, Cincinnati, New York) English Outfit Pack: Unlock paper at the start of a game when playing as an English outfit Italian Outfit Pack: Unlock

Jun 20, 2022
Update notes for version 1.4.1

Added a button to the save screen that copies the seed to clipboard, making for easier sahring. Added an option in settings to hide what kinds of delivery notifications you recieve. Made it so that 0$

Jun 15, 2022
Shadow Government DLC and Outfit Content Packs Out Now!

City of Gangsters: Shadow Government and five Outfit content packs are now available! Conquer The Big Apple by manipulating those you helped reach political office, all the while selling a small taste

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresSimulation, Strategy
Player tagsCrime · Resource Management · Strategy · Management · Procedural Generation · Economy · Turn-Based · Historical · Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy · Sandbox · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Achievements80
Official sitehttps://www.kasedogames.com/cityofgangsters
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5/i7/i9 or AMD Ryzen Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GeForce 700 series or newer, AMD Radeon R5/R7/R9 200 series or newer, Intel Iris / HD 5000 or newer DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space