Games like City of Gangsters
If City of Gangsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wiseguys: The Commission, Just Power: The Papal States and Arcade Warlord — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
Players who liked City of Gangsters also play
Steam players who put hours into City of Gangsters also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Wiseguys: The Commission
WHY THIS
Top pick for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Take the role of Don in "Wiseguys: The Commission" and dominate New York. Plan crimes, traffic drugs, extort money and make war on rival families. Control the Commission, launder money. Your cunning will decide your fate. Are you ready to become the next boss of all bosses?
Just Power: The Papal States
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Are you ready to found a dynasty which controls the Holy See over the centuries? Climb the hierarchies, hire your relatives, blackmail and bribe to get everything you want in this turn-based political simulator.
Arcade Warlord
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Dominate during the 80s arcade boom in this Grand Strategy Tycoon. Engineer hit games, control the streets and weaponize the stock market. Money is a physical object on the map; hire a Bagman to collect profits or Enforcers as muscle. Destroy the competition in a neon-noir financial war.
Secret Government
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Gangsters.
Ranked #4 for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Gangsters.
Ranked #5 for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
Plutocracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
Empire of Sin
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with City of Gangsters.
Ranked #7 for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
The Commission 1920: Organized Crime Grand Strategy
WHY THIS
Shares territory control and an immersive mood with City of Gangsters.
Ranked #8 for City of Gangsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Stake your claim on the city of New Shore in this gritty simulation of 1920’s organized crime. As the Don, get involved with the rackets and politics that defined the Prohibition era. Claim your place among mafia history. How will you rule New Shore?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below City of Gangsters at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under City of Gangsters on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Other recommendable Steam games by SomaSim, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Gangsters.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind City of Gangsters. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
1849
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with City of Gangsters.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind City of Gangsters. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Rise of Industry 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Gangsters.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind City of Gangsters. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Frequently asked about City of Gangsters
- Does City of Gangsters run on Steam Deck?
- City of Gangsters is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does City of Gangsters cost?
- City of Gangsters is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to City of Gangsters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City of Gangsters are Wiseguys: The Commission, Just Power: The Papal States, Arcade Warlord.
- Who developed City of Gangsters?
- City of Gangsters was developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games.
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