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The Dope Game
To escape the city of Starkham and start your new life, your friend Preston sets up a meeting with the local loanshark, Sweaty Mike. After foolishly borrowing $2,000, you embark on a timed mission to sell as many illicit substances as possible. Based on John E. Dell's 1984 classic game Drugwars.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“The Dope game is a simple mostly text based drugs selling simulator. You start off with borrowing $2000 from a loan shark “Sweaty Mike” and you must pay it back with $50 interest per day within 15 days. The game is mostly text based and choices do matter. The game is inspired…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“If you enjoyed Dope Wars in the 90's you will get a kick out of this. True to the original in my opinion while also adding a bunch of new twists, the music and dialogue throughout the game are solid, sometimes even disturbing (old lady, looking at you). Great little game for the…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This game is based on DrugWars, that line alone got me excited and was the main reason I bought this thing in the first place. Unfortunately it turns out that it's more or less DrugWar's very distant retarded cousin that share the family name because their grand grand parents…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:57 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
CoaguCo End Of 2024 Update
Hey, gang! Been a super-quiet year with a ton of things going on in the background and a lot of radio silence on our end. However, this fancy end-of-year post should give you an idea of what was happe
CoaguCo 2024 Update
Hey there! The new year has come and we have an update for where things are and what is going on! Since some of them are still a little ways off, we'll try to keep this short. These final updates will
The Dope Game - Impending Patch - Xmas Update
What's up, dope fiends! Finally breaking a long silence to update you on what is going on with this final Dope Game patch, which includes a lot of fixes you all have reported since the last remaster p
CoaguCo Summer Update 2023
Hey, gang! Long time, no see! We have been tracking issues in our user forums, working on assets, busy with non-game projects, and prepping a slew of updates in the space of time since the last post.
The Dope Game - Version 4.4.1 Update
Hey dope fiends! This tiny patch fixes a very rare crash if you select the not-yet-included Brewery location on the map. Technically, you shouldn't be able to select it and this patch makes sure you c
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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.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Simulation |
| Player tags | Casual · Simulation · Crime · Strategy · Singleplayer · Management · Board Game · RTS · Turn-Based Strategy · Collectathon · Life Sim · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://coaguco.com/games/dope |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: AMD or Intel Graphics: OpenGL 3+ Capable Sound Card: Not necessary but you'll miss out on the music Additional Notes: An okay memory or notepad