Start a crime syndicate from nothing, and grow it into a well-oiled money machine. Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Smuggle goods from out of town and bribe the police to look the other way.

## About This Game
Start a crime syndicate from nothing, and grow it into a well-oiled money
machine. Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains
and resource distribution. Smuggle goods from out of town and bribe the police
to look the other way. Grow a powerful crew and keep your rivals under your
thumb. Eliminate competition and rule the city. But most importantly, keep the
money flowing.

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 speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be
yours.

But think beyond making a quick buck or two. You gotta be thinking ahead. You
gotta be thinking bigger. Much bigger.
## Well-organized crime
Get started in the booze biz by hocking some homemade hooch. Start your own
stills, and find raw materials to supply them. Learn new techniques to make
expensive drinks, or smuggle imported booze to fuel your growing operation.
Soon you’ll be supplying entire neighborhoods, and opening your own swinging
speakeasies.
## You gotta know a guy
On the black market, social currency matters as much as the greenback. With
cops and feds sniffing around, trust is everything and personal introductions
are worth their weight in gold. So work your connections to find profitable
new friends, and get people who owe you favors to put in a good word.
## You can’t do it alone
You will need plenty of hands to open new fronts, do delivery runs, and
protect your product from envious rivals. Your outfit’s ambitions are only
limited by the number of people working for you. Keep them paid, armed, and
organized, and who knows how far and how fast you’ll rise.
## The walls have ears
But proceed carefully, because everyone is always observing what you’re doing,
and family members stick up for each other. Whether you send your people to
harass someone, or to help them, you can be sure they’ll remember it down the
line.
## Getting territorial
As your outfit grows, convince locals that your goods and theirs will be
looked after. Territory under your control will provide a safety net, an
income base, and a wealth of opportunities for further growth and expansion.
## This era belongs to you
You’ve grabbed the opportunity by the horns, and the city is yours for the
taking. But you only have a few years to make your mark on history, to build
the largest, most profitable crime syndicate, take over your competition, and
rule the entire city. Because after 1933, it will be all over, alcohol will be
legal again. And doing business fair and square, well, everybody knows that’s
not where the real money is.

## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
There are references to violence, crime, alcohol consumption and tobacco
use.

City of Gangsters